Are Immigrants more Left-leaning than Natives?

Simone Moriconi (), Giovanni Peri () and Riccardo Turati
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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

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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.

Keywords: : Immigration; Elections; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 J61 P16 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2022-07
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Working Paper: Are Immigrants More Left-Leaning than Natives? (2022)
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