Has immigration affected Spanish presidential elections
results?

Méndez Martínez, Ildefonso; Cutillas Fernández, Isabel

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Has immigration affected Spanish presidential elections results?

dc.contributor.author	Méndez Martínez, Ildefonso
dc.contributor.author	Cutillas Fernández, Isabel
dc.contributor.department	Economía Aplicada
dc.date.accessioned	2024-12-02T08:37:02Z
dc.date.available	2024-12-02T08:37:02Z
dc.date.issued	2014-01
dc.description	© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013. This document is the Published version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Journal of Population Economics. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-013-0471-y
dc.description.abstract	Between 1998 and 2008, the immigrant share in Spain jumped from less than 3 % to more than 13 %. We provide bounds on the effect of immigration inflows on natives’ election outcomes by considering alternative assumptions about nationalized immigrants’ participation rates and voting behavior. We find that LatinAmerican immigration increased natives’ participation rate and their support for the major leftist party (Socialist Workers’ Party) over the major conservative party (People’s Party (PP)). Conversely, African immigration only increased natives’ support for anti-immigration formations relative to the PP while leaving unaffected their participation rate. The estimated effects are of modest size in all cases. We provide suggestive evidence that economic factors cannot account for such a heterogeneity in the effects of interest by immigrants’ ethnic groups. We argue that Spanish natives’ attitudes towards immigrants are mainly driven by noneconomic factors like dissimilarities between natives and immigrants in language, religion, and race.
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dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Population Economics, 2014, Vol. 27, pp. 135–171
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-013-0471-y
dc.identifier.issn	Print: 0933-1433
dc.identifier.issn	Electronic: 1432-1475
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/147003
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Springer
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dc.relation.publisherversion	https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00148-013-0471-y
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dc.subject	Immigration
dc.subject	Electoral outcomes
dc.subject	Instrumental variables
dc.subject	National identity
dc.title	Has immigration affected Spanish presidential elections results?	es
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