Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/235476 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 876
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
We investigate the influence of anti-immigrant parties on foreigners' location choices in Italy. Considering municipal elections from 2000 to 2018, we create a database that includes a scientific-based classification on the anti-/pro-immigration axis of all Italian political parties based on experts' opinions. Via the adoption of a regression discontinuity design, we find that the election of a mayor supported by an anti-immigrant coalition significantly affect immigrants' location choices only when considering the most recent years. This finding does not appear to be driven by the enactment of policies against immigrants but by an 'inhospitality effect', which got stronger over time due to the exacerbation of political propaganda at the national and local level.
Subjects: 
immigration
political parties
regression discontinuity design
JEL: 
D72
J61
C13
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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