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 …

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …

Federal law and immigration policy create distinctions between citizens and non-citizens that threaten public health in …

Immigration Database (IMDB), as well as the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)/ International Peace Research Institute in Oslo … Immigration Database (IMDB) sowie dem Armed Conflict Dataset des Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)/International Peace Research …

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 …

Switzerland implemented an immigration quota system to manage the inflow of immigration between 1970 and 2002. This … Switzerland, but had no impact on unemployment. Moreover, such immigration restriction lowered the average skill level of the … potential endogeneity issue. The author finds that the immigration quota system slowed down the growth of foreign population in …