-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. This paper studies a natural experiment in an Austrian federal state to identify the causal … effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on the support for the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). In the … Upper Austria state election in September 2015 the FPÖ doubled its vote share with a fierce anti-asylum campaign. Since only …

success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data …

immigration as a tool to counter the negative impact of population ageing on economic growth and the pressure on public funds …. While we know that immigration alone cannot solve the problem of population ageing, it can be an important policy instrument …, complementary to other measures to raise the activity rate of older persons, and of prime age women. Its impact will depend on the …

Austria's Beveridge Curve has shifted markedly outwards since labor market access for Eastern European neighbors was … employment surge accelerates and unemployment declines. Labor supply shocks caused by foreigners have an unambiguous and positive … level Vienna, the capital in the east of the country, was most heavily exposed to the recent labor immigration boom. …