Immigration and Voting for the Far Right

By Martin Halla, Alexander F. Wagner, Josef Zweimüller. 2017

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Immigration, public opinion and the recession in Europe (2016, background): “In districts of Hamburg increases in immigration led to a rising vote share for the far right Republikaner Party (Otto and Steinhardt, 2014) and immigration fuelled the rise of the Freedom Party of Austria in the 1980s and 1990s (Halla et al., 2013).”
Immigration and electoral support for the far-left and the far-right (2019, result): “Halla et al. (2017) find support for the hypothesis that negative attitudes towards immigration are to an important extent driven by compositional amenities in Austria.”
Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration (2019, neutral): “A growing literature has shown that the inflow of immigrants has increased support for populist, far right parties in several Western democracies (Becker and Fetzer, 2016; Dustmann et al., 2019; Halla et al., 2017).”
Immigration, Ethnic Diversity, and Political Outcomes: Evidence from Denmark (2018, result): “In line with the present paper’s results for Denmark, both Halla et al. (2014) and Otto and Steinhardt (2014) document a positive effect of immigration on electoral”
Labor market concerns and support for immigration (2020, result): “Our evidence complements a large literature documenting how immigration affects electoral support for anti-immigrant parties (Becker and Fetzer, 2016; Dehdari, 2017; Dustmann et al., 2016; Halla et al., 2016).”
Immigration and preferences for redistribution in Europe1 (2019, background): “, Luttmer (2001) shows evidence for “group loyalty effects”, namely that support for redistribution increases if members of the respondent’s own ethnic group are over-represented among welfare recipients.”