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Are Immigrants more Left-leaning than Natives?

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  • Simone MORICONI

    (IESEG School of Management, Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 9221 - LEM – Lille Economie Management, F-59000 Lille, France, CESifo Munich)

  • Giovanni PERI

    (University of California, Davis)

  • Riccardo TURATI

    (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)

Abstract

We analyze whether second generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical host country’s citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 Euro- pean countries between 2001 and 2017 we characterize each vote on a left-right scale using ideological and policy position of the party from the Manifesto Project Database. In the first part of the paper we characterize the size of the "left-bias" in the vote of second generation immigrants, after controlling for a large set of individual characteristics and origin and destination country unobservable factors. We find a significant left-bias of second generation migrants relative to observationally identical natives, similar in magnitude to the association between left-bias and secondary education, or living in urban areas. We then show that this left-bias associates with stronger preferences for government intervention to reduce economic inequality, and for internationalism and multiculturalism.

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  • Simone MORICONI & Giovanni PERI & Riccardo TURATI, 2022. "Are Immigrants more Left-leaning than Natives?," Working Papers 2022-iFlame-04, IESEG School of Management.
    • Handle: RePEc:ies:wpaper:e202207
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    JEL classification:

    • D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
    • Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics

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