TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Sinning, Mathias
AU  - Vorell, Matthias
        TI  - There Goes the Neighborhood? People’s Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to Australia
        PY  - 2011/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5883
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5883
        AB  - This paper compares the effects of immigration flows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion about these effects using individual and regional data for Australia. We employ an instrumental variables strategy to account for non-random location choices of immigrants and find that immigration has no adverse effects on regional unemployment rates, median incomes, or crime levels. This result is in line with the economic effects that people typically expect but does not confirm the public opinion about the contribution of immigration to higher crime levels, suggesting that Australians overestimate the effect of immigration on crime.
        KW  - effects of immigration
KW  - attitudes towards immigrants
KW  - international migration
        ER  -