Natives' Attitudes and Immigration Flows to Europe

Valentina Di Iasio () and Jackline Wahba
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Valentina Di Iasio: University of Southampton

No 15942, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of natives' anti-immigration attitudes on migration flows to EU countries. We use panel data for migration to the EU between 1995-2018. We address the potential endogeneity between public attitudes and migration flows using instrumental variable techniques. We also control for the dependence between the attractiveness of alternative EU destinations. Our findings suggest that there is a negative causal relationship between anti-immigration attitudes and migration inflows to the EU from both EU and non-EU countries; i.e. natives' hostility discourages immigration. However, the elasticity of immigration to public attitudes is higher than the elasticity of immigration to economic factors for EU migrants.

Keywords: EU migration; public attitudes; migration drivers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2023-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eec, nep-eur, nep-int, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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