EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …

concerns over potential consequences of certain kinds of immigration and are linked to individual characteristics that increase …-mitigating: Affluent, high-immigration countries more easily sustain tolerance for the same reasons they attract immigrants (opportunities …) but are more prone to threatened responses since these are provoked by immigration characteristics overrepresented in …

accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU membership is refused, fear of future restrictions on immigration will lead to …This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU …

How did the large asylum-seeker inflow to Germany in 2015 affect concerns about immigration? Using individual …-level panel data for the years 2012–2018, I show that after 2015 concerns about immigration increased by about 21 pp. and support … line with the contact hypothesis, living in a high refugee migration district reduced concerns about immigration by 3 pp …

The Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) database includes data on migration policies for 33 OECD countries and …) "Measuring Immigration Policies: The IMPIC-Database", European Political Science (forthcoming). When using the data, please cite …