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Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees

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20/02/2023
Author
Gamalerio, Matteo
Negri, Margherita
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Abstract
Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? Exploiting the Italian system for refugees’ reception and data from Italian municipalities, we show that proximity to elections reduces the probability that a municipality applies to host a refugee center by 26%, despite the economic benefits arising from these centers. Low electoral competition and high shares of extreme-right voters drive the effect. Our results are rationalized by a theoretical model and can explain the unequal distribution of refugees across and within countries.
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Gamalerio , M & Negri , M 2023 , ' Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees ' , Journal of Economic Geography , vol. Advance articles , lbad002 . https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbad002
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Journal of Economic Geography
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbad002
ISSN
1468-2702
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © The Author (2023). Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/27033

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