Regional Determinants of Attitudes Towards Immigrants

Julia Peter () and Silke Uebelmesser
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Julia Peter: Friedrich Schiller University Jena

No 2023-020, Jena Economics Research Papers from Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

Abstract: Attitudes toward immigrants play a crucial role in voting behaviour and political decision-making. Such attitudes are shaped by individual characteristics, but the regional environment may also be important. This paper examines how individual attitudes toward immigrants are related to the economic, political, and social environment. We use individual-level data based on a large-scale representative survey and district-level administrative data. Specifically, we examine regional variation in economic growth, voting patterns, and characteristics of the immigrant population and their relation to beliefs about and attitudes toward immigrants. We also use an information experiment in which information about the actual characteristics of the immigrant population in Germany is provided and assess its impact on attitudes toward immigrants in the regional context. Our results suggest that the impact of the environment - over and above individual characteristics - is small and depends on the type of attitude.

Keywords: attitudes; immigrants; regional determinants; economic concerns; policy preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C90 D83 F22 J15 R11 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-11-22
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-int, nep-mig and nep-ure
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