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 …

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 …

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …

Switzerland implemented an immigration quota system to manage the inflow of immigration between 1970 and 2002. This … Switzerland, but had no impact on unemployment. Moreover, such immigration restriction lowered the average skill level of the … potential endogeneity issue. The author finds that the immigration quota system slowed down the growth of foreign population in …

My paper analyzes the link between immigration and support for anti-immigrant parties in Europe. I assemble a unique …

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …

Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and … several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right parties in France … immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has …

Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and … several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in … immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has …

Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via …