The paper aims to conduct a comparative analysis of possible determinants of peoples' attitudes towards immigrants depending on individual's socio-demographic and economic characteristics in Estonia and Russia. The empirical part of the paper relies on information provided in the European Social...

Does living in a communist regime make a person more concerned about immigration? This paper argues conceptually and demonstrates empirically that people’s attitudes toward immigration are affected by their country's politico-economic legacy. Exploiting a quasi-natural experiment arising from...