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Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain
Gonzalez, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 2009
We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration … wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on the historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532878
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Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain
Gonzalez, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009
We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration … wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on the historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317962
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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany
Philipp, Jaschke; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533055
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How the macroeconomic context impacts on attitudes to immigration: evidence from parallel time series
Ruist, Joakim - 2014
This study investigates the effects of the macroeconomic context on attitudes to immigration. Earlier studies do in … immigration. As an illustration, the estimates indicate that the number of individuals in the average European country in 2012 who … were against all immigration from poorer countries or of foreign ethnicities was 40% higher than it would have been if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532687
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Immigration and electoral outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany
Bredtmann, Julia - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532763
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Regional Variations in Attitudes Towards Refugees: Evidence from Great Britain
Drinkwater, Stephen; Crawley, Heaven; Kauser, Rukhsana - 2013
from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a … display the most tolerant views both before and after the increase in immigration and asylum. However, characteristics such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532826
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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles when Migrations are Temporary
Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532874
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Turning Opposition into Support to Immigration: The Role of Narratives
Cattaneo, Cristina; Grieco, Daniela - 2020
The way we collectively discuss migration shapes citizens' perceptions of migrants and their influence on our society. This paper investigates whether a narrative about the positive impact of immigrants on the hosting economy affects natives' behaviour towards migrants. To shed light on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533132
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Regional Variations in Attitudes Towards Refugees: Evidence from Great Britain
Drinkwater, Stephen; Crawley, Heaven; Kauser, Rukhsana - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a … display the most tolerant views both before and after the increase in immigration and asylum. However, characteristics such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839543
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How the macroeconomic context impacts on attitudes to immigration: evidence from parallel time series
Ruist, Joakim - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
This study investigates the effects of the macroeconomic context on attitudes to immigration. Earlier studies do in … immigration. As an illustration, the estimates indicate that the number of individuals in the average European country in 2012 who … were against all immigration from poorer countries or of foreign ethnicities was 40% higher than it would have been if …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010839547