Do attitudes toward immigrants matter

We exploit the regional variation in negative attitudes towards immi-grants to Sweden in order to analyse what are the consequences of such attitudes on immigrantswelfare. We \u85nd that attitudes towards immi-grants are of importance: they both a¤ect their labour market outcomes and their quality of life. We interpret the negative e¤ect on wages as ev-idence of labour market discrimination We estimate the welfare e¤ect of negative attitudes, through their wage and local amenities, for immigrants with di¤erent levels of skills and origin.