Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272569 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15942
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
EU migration
public attitudes
migration drivers
JEL: 
J61
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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