We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration by … natives lead to less favourable attitudes of natives towards immigration. Interestingly, we do not find similar stylised facts … for immigrants' attitudes towards immigration. …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

"societal population aging" is the old-age dependency ratio. "Attitudes" are taken from immigration related questions in eight … effect of societal population aging on individual attitudes towards immigration is negative in young societies and positive …This research empirically establishes the hypothesis that the process of population aging in a society as a whole …

This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be … associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the … period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that a ten percentage-point increase in the share of the non-White population …

increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population … attractiveness of immigration as a solution to population ageing. This paper examines immigration as a solution to the problem of … ageing population, while considering the implication of immigration on social norms. …