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 …

This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland … Union (EU), enacted in 2002, as an exogenous shock to immigration. The first approach uses the AFMP reform within an …, distinguishing between regions with historically high, medium, and low immigration from EU-15 countries. The analysis based on data …

differences between migrants and natives are larger in the German region. Building on this, the paper begins with a comparison of … show returns to factors of wage-earning migrants are lower in the German region for a preponderant majority of migrant … approach confirm that host society culture is one of the determinants of wage discrimination endured by migrants …

evolution of objective behaviors and subjective attitudes of migrants from the first to the second generation. In order to … deepen the analysis, the cultural integration of migrants is further examined from different perspectives: across cohorts … (older vs. younger migrants) and across types of couples (individuals in endogamous vs. mixed couples). Gender differences …