People's Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to Australia

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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 inline 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.

Object Details

• ISBN: 978-3-86788-316-0
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 271

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
• Subject: International migration ; effects of immigration ; attitudes towards immigrants ; International migration ; effects of immigration ; attitudes towards immigrants

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Sinning, Mathias ; Vorell, Matthias
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
• (where): Essen
• (when): 2011

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/61456
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET