move. European countries have selective policies with regards to the health, education and wealth of migrants, who self …

We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration by … natives lead to less favourable attitudes of natives towards immigration. Interestingly, we do not find similar stylised facts … for immigrants' attitudes towards immigration. …

immigrants from different countries and arriving under different immigration policy regimes vary in their probability of over …-qualification. The results suggest that both country of origin (sending factor) and immigration policy (selecting factor) matter and that …

We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find … that immigration generates a sizable causal increase in votes for the centre-right coalition, which has a political … platform less favorable to immigrants. Additional findings are: big cities behave differently, with no impact of immigration on …

We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …

their own visa path, and there are not strong reasons why a loosening of restrictions on employment migrants need be … accompanied by new restrictions on family-based immigration. Moreover, it is misleading to think that only employment …