We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …

groups. Using a local labor markets design, we estimate that manufacturing decline significantly reduced employment between … 2000 and 2006, while local housing booms increased employment by roughly the same magnitude. The effects of manufacturing … decline persist through 2012, but we find no persistent employment effects of local housing booms, likely because housing …

. Using official county-level voting data and a variety of OLS and TSLS models, we find that increases in wages and employment … increases in employment lead to less use of the media and reduced political knowledge, and present associational individual …