Natives' attitudes and immigration flows to Europe.
This article analyses the extent to which natives' anti-immigration attitudes affect migration flows to European Union (EU) countries. Using bilateral panel data on migration inflows to the EU between 2000–2019, we examine how cross-country and temporal variation in natives' anti-immigrant attitudes...
| Publicado en: | Oxford Economic Papers Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 824 - 850 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2026
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