We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of … immigrants at the regional level, we find that native respondents display lower support for redistribution when the share of …

I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and … 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 …

This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. As a natural experiment, we exploit the sudden …, and a pro-immigrant party received high vote shares. We further document that this episode of mass immigration had lasting … effects on people's preferences for redistribution. In areas with larger inflows in the 1940s, people have substantially …

economy, but there is not much evidence that countries with a large welfare state and substantial redistribution have worse … such consumer rivalry the government wishes to correct for the rat race, even if there is no need for redistribution, by …

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 …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 …