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We study whether the arrival of a new immigrant wave changes natives' acceptance of former immigrants and their descendants. We exploit the 2015 European refugee crisis and the context of German open-list local council elections where voting for immigrant-origin candidates represents a...
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Large-scale immigration waves can have adverse effects on physical and mental health of the natives. We investigate the … that immigration may adversely affects the mental health of natives. The adverse effects, however, are conditioned by the … Justice and Development Party (AKP) of president Erdoğan. At the individual level, we observe adverse effects of immigration …
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In this paper, I examine high-income country motives for restricting immigration. Abundant evidence suggests that … motivation for barriers to labor inflows is political pressure from groups that are hurt by immigration. Raising immigration … would depend on creating mechanisms to transfer income from those that immigration helps to those that it hurts. Another …
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Immigration has increasingly taken centre-stage in the political landscape. Part of this has been rise in far …-right, anti-immigration parties in a range of countries. Existing evidence suggests that the presence of immigrants has a … substantial effect on the political views of the electorate, generating an advantage to these parties with anti-immigration or …
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immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …
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dynamics. Keywords: Consumption externalities, immigration, ethnic cluster, ethnic goods. JEL classification: F22, J15, J61. …
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The immigration to Norway has increased strongly since the turn of the millennium and especially since the eastward EU … their reason of immigration. The immigration has changed from a gender balance during the first years of the 2000 towards a … clear male dominance after 2005, mostly due to increased labour immigration. The immigration has changed from a dominance of …
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Scheme, we find that higher local level immigration increased life satisfaction of young people and decreased life … level immigration increased natives' satisfaction with their dwelling, partner and social life. …
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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. …
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of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with … immigration than the highly educated. Experience with foreigners arising from social contact matters in positively appreciating … significant effect on the evaluation of the number of foreigners present. The biggest effect on immigration preferences is …
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