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anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take …
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In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the causal effect of immigrant presence on anti-immigrant votes is a short-run effect. For this purpose, we consider a distributed lag model and adapt the standard instrumental variable approach proposed by Altonji and Card (1991) to a dynamic...
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anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047862
policies. I study the voting over differentiated immigration policies in a two-country, three-factor one-period model where …The claim that "skilled immigration is welcome" is often associated to the increasing adoption of selective immigration … there exist skilled and unskilled workers, migration decisions are endogenous, enforcing immigration restriction is costly …
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immigration on voting for the far-right Finns Party on a local level. Exploiting a convenient setup for a shift-share instrument …Across Europe, far-right parties have made significant electoral gains in recent years. Their anti-immigration stance … at the municipality level. The far-right votes lost to immigration are captured by the two pro-immigration parties …
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the support for far-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. In the state elections in an Austrian state in September …
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-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. This paper studies a natural experiment in an Austrian federal state to identify the causal …
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We investigate the local effects of trade exposure and immigration on voting behavior in France from 1988 to 2022. We … use the content of each candidate's manifesto to construct an anti-globalization voting index for each French presidential …-globalization vote beyond the far right. We show that increasing local exposure to import competition and immigration increases anti …
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What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …
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As immigration to Europe has increased, so has support for extremist parties. While many studies have examined the … effect of immigration on election outcomes, few have probed the effect of asylum seekers – those fleeing strife and … persecution – on voting, nor has there been much research on the mediating role of local economic conditions. Drawing on county …
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