The political economy of immigration in a direct democracy: The case of Switzerland

Krishnakumar, Jaya; Müller, Tobias

doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2011.09.005

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“…8 The only exceptions are two very recent works, Facchini and Mayda (2008a) and Krishnakumar and Mueller (2008). not allowed to work, except for those admitted under specific categories.…”

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Do interest groups affect US immigration policy?

Facchini

Mayda

Mishra³

2011

Journal of International Economics

118

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While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an industry-level dataset for the United States, by combining information on the number of temporary work visas with data on lobbying activity associated with immigration. We find robust evidence that both pro-and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically relevant role in shaping migration across sectors. Barriers to migration are lower in sectors in which business interest groups incur larger lobby expenditures and higher in sectors where labor unions are more important.JEL classification: F22, J61.

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“…8 The only exceptions are two very recent works, Facchini and Mayda (2008a) and Krishnakumar and Mueller (2008). not allowed to work, except for those admitted under specific categories.…”

Section: Migration Policy In the United Statesmentioning

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Do interest groups affect US immigration policy?

Facchini

Mayda

Mishra³

2011

Journal of International Economics

118

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“…For studies on attitudes towards immigration seeCard et al (2012);Preston (2004, 2007);Facchini and Mayda (2009);Hainmueller andHiscox (2007, 2010);Krishnakumar and Müller (2012); O'Rourke and Sinnott (2006);Scheve and Slaughter (2001). For studies related to preferences for political parties and/or policies, seeCitrin et al (1997);Dahlberg et al (2012);Dülmer and Klein (2005);Knigge (1998);Lubbers and Scheepers (2000).2 Several studies in the political science literature provide suggestive evidence; see, e.g.,Arzheimer and Carter (2006);Arzheimer (2009);Golder (2003);Jackman and Volper (1996);Knigge (1998) andLubbers, Gijsberts and Scheepers (2002).3 Other studies, for example,Gerdes and Wadensjö (2008), rely on arguably random assignment of refugees in Denmark.…”

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Immigration and Voting for the Far Right

Halla

Wagner

Zweimüller

2017

Journal of the European Economic Association

416

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Does the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood affect voting for far right-wing parties? We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) that, under the leadership of Jörg Haider, increased its vote share from less than 5% in the early 1980s to 27% by the end of the 1990s and continued to attract more than 20% of voters in the 2013 national election. We find that the inflow of immigrants into a community has a significant impact on the increase in the community's voting share for the FPÖ, explaining roughly a tenth of the regional variation in vote changes. Our results suggest that voters worry about adverse labor market effects of immigration, as well as about the quality of their neighborhood. In fact, we find evidence of a negative impact of immigration on "compositional amenities". In communities with larger immigration influx, Austrian children commute longer distances to school, and fewer daycare resources are provided. We do not find evidence that Austrians move out of communities with increasing immigrant presence.

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“…However, these empirical findings do not address the endogeneity of immigration and are therefore not able to establish a causal link between immigration and political outcomes. The only exception we are aware of is a study by Gerdes and Wadensjö (2008), examining potential causal e↵ects of asylum seekers from outside Europe and the OECD on voting in Denmark. 6 For studies on attitudes towards immigration see Card, Dustmann, and Preston (2012); Preston (2004, 2007); Facchini and Mayda (2009);Hainmueller andHiscox (2007, 2010); Krishnakumar and Müller (2012); O'Rourke and Sinnott (2006); Scheve and Slaughter (2001). For studies related to preferences for political parties, see Citrin, Green, Muste, and Wong (1997); Dülmer and Klein (2005); Knigge (1998);Lubbers and Scheepers (2000).…”

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Does Immigration Into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria

Halla

Zweimüller

2012

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme-right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in the voters' neighborhoods. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Under the leadership of Jörg Haider, this party increased its share of votes from less than 5 percent in the early 1980s to 27 percent by the year 1999. Using past regional settlement patterns as a source of exogenous variation, we find a significantly positive e↵ect on FPÖ votes of the residential proximity of immigrants and citizens, explaining roughly a quarter of the cross-community variance in those votes. It is the proximity of low-and medium-skilled immigrants that drives this result; high-skilled immigrants have no (or even a negative) e↵ect on FPÖ votes.JEL Classification: P16, J61.

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The political economy of immigration in a direct democracy: The case of Switzerland

Cited by 17 publications

References 34 publications

Do interest groups affect US immigration policy?

Do interest groups affect US immigration policy?

Immigration and Voting for the Far Right

Does Immigration Into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria

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