They win, I leave: the impact of the Northern League party on foreign internal migration

Egidio Farina

Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, University of Sussex Business School

Abstract: This paper studies how electoral outcomes can shape individuals’ migration decisions. Using the Italian mayoral elections data from 2001 to 2014, I study how foreign citizens’ internal migration with a regular residency permit in North-Italy can be affected by the election of a mayor affiliated to the Northern League (Lega Nord) party, a far-right political movement characterized by a strong federalist, populist and anti-immigration ideology. In order to deal with the endogeneity of Northern League to city characteristics, a sharp regression discontinuity is used. Overall the results show that a mayor affiliated to the Northern League party causes an increase in the foreign out-migration rate one year after the election.

Keywords: Northern League mayor; partisanship; close elections; regression discontinuity; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-04
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