Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/333631 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 18192
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate the effect of anti-immigration attitudes on immigration plans to Europe. We propose a new instrument for attitudes toward immigration, namely, the number of country nationals killed in terrorist attacks taking place outside of Europe. Our first-stage results confirm that such terrorist attacks increase negative attitudes to immigration in the origin country of the victims. Our second-stage results then show that this higher hostility toward migrants decreases the attractiveness of the country for prospective immigrants.
Subjects: 
immigration
terrorism
anti-immigration attitudes
Europe
JEL: 
C1
F2
J1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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