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The Consequences of Hosting Asylum Seekers for Citizens' Policy Preferences
Asylum migration is a major societal challenge in the Western world affecting residents' policy preferences. We analyze the effects of newly hosting asylum seekers in a given municipality on local citizens' preferences in terms of migratory and redistributive policies as well as of support or opposition to political change in general. Policy preferences are measured based on citizens' actual voting behavior in national referendums in Switzerland between 1987 and 2017. We exploit the administrative placement of asylum seekers across municipalities and find that citizens vote temporarily slightly more restrictively on immigration issues in national referendums and are less supportive of redistribution than before hosting asylum seekers. Citizens are not more likely to vote for the status quo and not more likely to participate per se.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14159
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
International Migration
National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- Subject
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asylum seekers
direct democracy
political preferences
pro-immigration attitudes
redistribution
status quo effect
voter participation
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Zimmermann, Severin
Stutzer, Alois
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2021
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Zimmermann, Severin
- Stutzer, Alois
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2021
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