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Has immigration contributed to the rise of rightwing extremist parties in Europe?

Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne - 2020

international trade, a series of recent empirical econometric studies show that immigration has contributed to the rise of extreme … immigration and that of extreme right-wing parties. Exploiting French presidential elections from 1988 to 2017, we show that the … positive impact of immigration on votes for extreme right-wing parties is driven by low-skilled immigration and immigration …

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The role of information provision for attitudes towards immigration : an experimental investigation

Bareinz, Patrick; Übelmesser, Silke - 2020

We conduct a survey experiment on the effect of information provision on attitudes towards immigration in Germany. The … focus lies on two theory-based economic channels, labor market and welfare state concerns, and immigration policy … robustly decreases welfare state concerns about immigration. There are slightly less pronounced effects on the labor market and …

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The evolution of immigrants' homeownership in Germany

Ihley, Dorothee; Siebert-Meyerhoff, Andrea - 2016

Recently, homeownership rates of migrants in Germany increased by more than 10 percentage points. To shed light on this …

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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market

Beyer, Robert - 2017

This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...

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Do immigrants affect crime? : evidence from panel data for Germany

Maghularia, Rita; Übelmesser, Silke - 2019

The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime...

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The financial decisions of immigrant and native households : evidence from Italy

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2018

Using rich Italian data for the period 2006-2014, we document sizeable gaps between native and immigrant households with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but only above the median of the wealth distribution, with...

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …

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The financial decisions of immigrant and native households : evidence from Italy

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2018

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974

The effect of attitudes toward migrants on migrant skill composition

Avdiu, Besart - 2017

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants in general can reduce the average skill … attitudes. I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

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