Ethnic Concentration and Extreme Right-Wing Voting Behavior in West Germany

Dill, Verena

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2303947

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“…In their study, simultaneity bias matters and correcting for it reveals that a higher share in the (ethnic) minority population is associated with more hostile attitudes in the majority population. Several studies build on this idea to take potential endogeneity into account in other contexts (see, e.g., Dill, 2013;Kuhn and Brunner, 2018;Barone et al, 2016;Méndez Martínez and Cutillas, 2014;Halla et al, 2017;Gerdes and Wadensjö, 2008). While the potential relationship between attitudes and location choices is acknowledged, there is little direct evidence on whether foreign individuals' location choices indeed relate to perceived attitudes per se or whether the potential relationship is rather driven by resulting tangible (living) conditions.…”

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The deterrent effect of an anti-minaret vote on foreigners’ location choices

Slotwinski

Stutzer

2019

J Popul Econ

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In a national ballot in 2009, Swiss citizens surprisingly approved an amendment to the Swiss constitution to ban the further construction of minarets. The ballot outcome manifested reservations and anti-immigrant attitudes in regions of Switzerland which had previously been hidden. We exploit this fact as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus indirectly on their utility. Based on a regression discontinuity design with unknown discontinuity points and administrative data on the population of foreigners, we find that the probability of their moving to a municipality which unexpectedly expressed stronger reservations decreases initially by about 40 percent. The effect is accompanied by a drop of housing prices in these municipalities and levels off over a period of about 5 months. Moreover, foreigners in high-skill occupations react relatively more strongly highlighting a tension when countries try to attract well-educated professionals from abroad.

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The deterrent effect of an anti-minaret vote on foreigners’ location choices

Slotwinski

Stutzer

2019

J Popul Econ

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“…Increasing vote shares for right-wing parties by immigrant share have been found for Italy (Barone et al, 2016), Austria (Halla et al, 2016), Denmark (Dustmann et al, 2016), Switzerland (Brunner & Kuhn, 2014), the UK (Becker & Fetzer, 2016), and the city of Hamburg (Otto & Steinhardt, 2014). Steinmayr (2016) instead nds that exposure to refugees in Austrian neighborhoods decreases the support for the far-right; along similar lines, Dill (2013) shows a negative relationship between foreigners' share and right-wing voting in Germany. tion of Muslim immigrants, where the heterogeneity of preferences is greater (Glaeser et al, 2005;Mullainathan & Shleifer, 2005).…”

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Minority Salience and Political Extremism

Colussi

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Pestel

2021

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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We investigate how the salience of an ethnic minority affects the majority group’s voting behavior. We use the increased salience of Muslim communities during Ramadan as a natural experiment. Exploiting exogenous variation in the distance of election dates to Ramadan over the 1980–2013 period in Germany, our findings reveal an increased polarization. Vote shares for both right- and left-wing extremist parties increase in municipalities with mosques when an election takes place shortly after Ramadan. We use survey data to provide evidence on mechanisms: Ramadan increases respondents’ perceived share of the foreign-born population and emphasizes cultural dissimilarities, ultimately worsening attitudes toward Muslims. (JEL D72, D91, J15, Z12, Z13)

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