This paper compares the effects of immigration flows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion about … confirm the public opinion about the contribution of immigration to higher crime levels, suggesting that Australians … non-random location choices of immigrants and find that immigration has no adverse effects on regional unemployment rates …

public opinion on migration is affected by the potential labor market competition of migrants towards natives. We investigate …This paper empirically investigates the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration in South Africa using … than natives, we conclude that the labor-market channel does not play a role in preference formation over immigration. What …

Recent immigration has made the United States significantly more racially and ethnically diverse. These demographic …' attitudes toward immigrants and immigration policy. The results indicate that native-born whites who are embedded in educated …. Personal contacts play an important role in shaping native-born whites' opinions of immigrants and immigration policy …

Does the politico-economic system affect preferences for immigration? In this study, I show that individuals exposed to … life under state socialism have formed, and persistently hold different attitudes toward immigration. By exploiting the … of attitudes toward immigration. Drawing on rich individual panel data, I find that East Germans who lived under state …

populations. I also find that the detainees' perceived obligation to obey U.S. immigration authorities is significantly related to … U.S. immigration authorities as their personal experiences of fair or unfair treatment. I discuss the broader …

concerned about immigration to Germany by around six percentage points (20 percent). Furthermore, our findings imply significant … spillovers from maternal education to immigration attitudes of her offspring. While we find no evidence for returns to education …

affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes … of individuals towards immigration after accounting for their age and other individual characteristics. We test this … “societal population aging” is the old-age dependency ratio. “Attitudes” are taken from immigration related questions in eight …

attitudes towards immigration. Data collected by the Pew Research Center in 2006 from a sample of U.S. adults were analyzed to … determine whether those with less attachment to the labor market have more negative attitudes about immigration. Findings show … that respondents who were employed full-time or part-time have significantly more positive attitudes towards immigration …

of the participants with five statistics about immigration, before evaluating their attitude towards immigrants with self …, although it does not change people's policy preferences regarding immigration. Republicans become more willing to increase … legal immigration after receiving the information treatment. Finally, we also measure the same self-reported policy …

This paper provides new evidence regarding public opinion on immigration by studying the Spanish case, and by analyzing … not only respondents' preferences regarding immigration levels, but also regarding admittance policies and the rights and … benefits to grant to foreigners. In general, Spaniards support less immigration, and more selectivity based on skills and …