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Immigration and electoral outcomes : evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany
Bredtmann, Julia - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262763
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Immigration and electoral support for the far left and the far right
Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne; Öztunc, Jonathan; … - 2017
Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and … several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right parties in France … immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794011
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Immigration and electoral support for the far-left and the far-right
Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne; Öztunc, Jonathan; … - 2018
Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and … several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in … immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800646
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Immigration and electoral outcomes : evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany
Bredtmann, Julia - 2020
This paper investigates the effects of the 2015 mass inflow of refugees to Germany on electoral outcomes. Specifically, using unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I analyze how local exposure to refugees affects the outcomes of the March 2016 state election - an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497324
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Has immigration contributed to the rise of rightwing extremist parties in Europe?
Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne - 2020
international trade, a series of recent empirical econometric studies show that immigration has contributed to the rise of extreme … immigration and that of extreme right-wing parties. Exploiting French presidential elections from 1988 to 2017, we show that the … positive impact of immigration on votes for extreme right-wing parties is driven by low-skilled immigration and immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256002
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The political effects of immigration: culture or economics?
Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of … immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why …. We start from the "standard" view that immigration triggers political backlash and raises support for nativist, anti …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517877
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The seeds of ideology : historical immigration and political preferences in the United States
Giuliano, Paola; Tabellini, Marco - 2020
We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We … with the hypothesis that immigration left its footprint on American ideology via cultural transmission from immigrants to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226388
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Does information change attitudes towards immigrants? : representative evidence from survey experiments
Grigorieff, Alexis; Roth, Christopher; Ubfal, Diego - 2016
of the participants with five statistics about immigration, before evaluating their attitude towards immigrants with self …, although it does not change people's policy preferences regarding immigration. Republicans become more willing to increase … legal immigration after receiving the information treatment. Finally, we also measure the same self-reported policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594707
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Superstition in the housing market
Fortin, Nicole Marie; Hill, Andrew J.; Huang, Jeff - 2013
We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766279
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Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments
Grigorieff, Alexis - 2018
of the participants with five statistics about immigration, before evaluating their attitude towards immigrants with self …, although it does not change people's policy preferences regarding immigration. Republicans become more willing to increase … legal immigration after receiving the information treatment. Finally, we also measure the same self-reported policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936231