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The deterrent effect of voting against minarets: identity utility and foreigners' location choice
Discussion paper / Internet publication
 
ID 3351520
Author(s) Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois
Author(s) at UniBasel Stutzer, Alois
Slotwinski, Michaela
Year 2015
Month and day 11-01
Title The deterrent effect of voting against minarets: identity utility and foreigners' location choice
Series title IZA discussion paper series
Number 9497
Pages 53
Publisher / Institution Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
URL http://ftp.iza.org/dp9497.pdf
Abstract This paper uses the vote on the Swiss minaret initiative 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 that unexpectedly expressed strong reservations decreases initially by about 60 percent. The effect levels off over a period of about 5 months. Consistent with a reduction in the identity utility for immigrants in general, the reaction is not confined to Muslims, whereby high-skilled foreigners seem to be most sensitive to the newly revealed reservations.
ISSN 2365-9793
edoc-URL http://edoc.unibas.ch/40440/
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