Arbeitspapier
Democratic Involvement and Immigrants' Compliance with the Law
Many people are concerned about societal cohesion in the face of higher numbers of foreigners migrating to Western democracies. The challenge for the future is to find and adopt institutions that foster integration. We investigate how the right to vote in local elections affects immigrants' compliance with the law. In our study for Denmark, we exploit an institutional regulation that grants foreigners local voting rights after three years of stay. Relying on register data, we find causal evidence that the first possibility to vote considerably reduces the number of legal offenses of non-Western male immigrants in the time after elections.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10550
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- Subject
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migration
voting rights
immigrant integration
crime
RDD
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Slotwinski, Michaela
Stutzer, Alois
Gorinas, Cédric
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2017
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Slotwinski, Michaela
- Stutzer, Alois
- Gorinas, Cédric
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2017
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