Personal Economic Shocks and Public Opposition to Unauthorized Immigration

Countering Public Opposition to Immigration: The impact of information campaign

Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic, making the integration of migrants one of the most important yet daunting challenges facing societies in advanced economies. Can information campaigns decrease public opposition to immigration? This paper reports results from a large-scale experiment conducted in Japan, a country with highly restrictive immigration laws and widespread ...

Economic Explanations for Opposition to Immigration: Distinguishing between Prevalence and Conditional Impact

What explains variation in individuals’ opposition to immigration? While scholars have consistently shown cultural concerns to be strong predictors of opposition, findings regarding the labor-market competition hypothesis are highly contested. To help understand these divergent results, we distinguish between the prevalence and conditional impact of determinants of immigration attitudes. Levera...

Exploring Homeowner Opposition to Public Housing Developments

IMMIGRATION and economic mobility

• Within ethnic groups, the second generation achieves 5 to 10 percent higher wages relative to native-born workers than does the first generation. • About half of the economic status of one immigrant generation persists into the next, a relationship that has remained stable over the past several decades (Borjas 2006). • Some economists argue that immigration accounts for a 3 to 4 percent decli...

Immigration and Public Spending

Immigration and Public Spending We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical perspective. We distinguish between public spending on private goods and on public goods. Our model implies that whether immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily depends on native’s preferences for private versus public good spendin...