@techreport{Halla2012Does,
abstract = {This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right-wing parties: the presence of immigrants in one's neighborhood. We study the case of the Freedom Party of Austria (FP\"{O}). Under the leadership of J\"{o}rg Haider, this party increased its share of votes from less than 5 percent in the early 1980s to 27 percent by the year 1999. Using past regional settlement patterns as a source of exogenous variation, we find a significantly positive effect of the residential proximity of immigrants on FP\"{O} votes, explaining roughly a quarter of the cross-community variance in FP\"{O} votes. It is the presence of low- and medium-skilled immigrants that drives this result; high-skilled immigrants have no (or even a negative) effect on FP\"{O} votes.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Martin Halla and Alexander F. Wagner and Josef Zweim\"{u}ller},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {P16; J61; 330; immigration; political economy; voting; Migranten; Nachbarschaft; Bev\"{o}lkerung; Wahlverhalten; Nationalistische Partei; Ethnische Diskriminierung; \"{O}sterreich},
language = {eng},
note = {urn:nbn:de:101:1-201301214006},
number = {6575},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {Does immigration into their neighborhoods incline voters toward the extreme right? The case of the freedom party of Austria},
type = {Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58900},
year = {2012}
}
