TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Iasio, Valentina Di
AU  - Wahba, Jackline
        TI  - Natives' Attitudes and Immigration Flows to Europe
        PY  - 2023/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15942
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15942
        AB  - 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.

        KW  - EU migration
KW  - public attitudes
KW  - migration drivers
        ER  -