Arbeitspapier
The deterrent effect of an anti-minaret vote on foreigners' location choices
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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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: WWZ Working Paper ; No. 2018/28
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
- Thema
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attitudes
foreigners
location choice
popular initiative
regression discontinuity design
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Slotwinski, Michaela
Stutzer, Alois
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ)
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Basel
- (wann)
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2019
- DOI
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doi:10.5451/unibas-ep69122
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Slotwinski, Michaela
- Stutzer, Alois
- University of Basel, Center of Business and Economics (WWZ)
Entstanden
- 2019
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