Immigration and electoral support for the far-left and the far-right

Anthony Edo, Yvonne Giesing, Jonathan Oeztunc and Panu Poutvaara

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in France, using panel data on presidential elections from 1988 to 2017. To derive causal estimates, we instrument more recent immigration flows by settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates. This is driven by low-educated immigrants from non-Western countries. We also find that immigration has a weak negative effect on support for far-left candidates, which could be explained by a reduced support for redistribution. We corroborate our analysis with a multinomial choice analysis using survey data. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

Date: 2019
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Published in European Economic Review 115(2019): pp. 99-143

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