- Title
- Immigration, Ethnic Diversity and Political Outcomes: Evidence from Denmark
- Author(s)
- Nikolaj A. Harmon Nikolaj Harmon (Princeton University)
- Abstract
- I study the impact of immigration and ethnic diversity on political outcomes in immigrant receiving countries, focusing on the case of election outcomes and immigration in Danish municipalities 1981-2001. A rich set of control variables isolates ethnic diversity effects from that of other immigrant characteristics and a novel IV strategy based on historical housing stock data addresses issues of endogenous location choice of immigrants. Immigration-driven increases in ethnic diversity improve electoral outcomes for anti-immigrant nationalist parties. Increased nationalist success comes primarily at the expense of traditional left-wing parties, although to a lesser extent possibly also at the expense of the non-nationalist right-wing parties. The effect of immigration and ethnic diversity does not diiffer between municipal and national elections, despite the very di erent issues decided at the two levels of government.
- Creation Date
- 2012-02
- Section URL ID
- IRS
- Paper Number
- 569
- URL
- https://dataspace.princeton.edu/bitstream/88435/dsp01xw42n792m/4/harmon2012immigration_IRSWP.pdf
- File Function
- Jel
- J000, J110, J150, J610
- Keyword(s)
- Denmark, labor, migration, elections, immigration, politics
- Suppress
- false
- Series
- 1