This study provides evidence of the causal impact of immigration on German house prices, flat prices, and flat rents …-term effect on German flat prices and rents. House prices are not significantly affected. We estimate that an increase in … rents of about 1%. The increase in flat prices is more than twice as high as this at the lower end of the market, whereas …

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 …

diversity of 0.1 would increase rents by over 12 percent after controlling for relevant explanatory variables and city and time … rents. These results suggest an economic impact that is an order of magnitude bigger than that found in labor markets … diversity on the local housing market mirrors the fact that inhabitants are willing to pay higher rents in cities with a high …

We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess … whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … estimations that deal with the endogenous sorting of immigration by region and with the sampling error in survey based measures of …

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … controls the information related to the immigration stock it could delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required … stock in the long run and controlling the flows in the short-run. -- immigration ; real option …