{"id":2755,"date":"2019-05-14T09:27:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T08:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2019-05-14T09:27:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T08:27:47","slug":"the-deterrent-effect-of-an-anti-minaret-vote-on-foreigners-location-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=2755","title":{"rendered":"The deterrent effect of an anti-minaret vote on foreigners\u2019 location choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutzer<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00148-019-00729-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00148-019-00729-6<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<section id=\"resume-fr\" class=\"resume\">&#8220;In a national ballot in 2009, Swiss citizens surprisingly approved an amendment to the Swiss constitution to ban the further construction of minarets. The ballot outcome manifested reservations and anti-immigrant attitudes in regions of Switzerland which had previously been hidden. We exploit this fact as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners\u2019 location choices and thus indirectly on their utility. Based on a regression discontinuity design with unknown discontinuity points and administrative data on the population of foreigners, we find that the probability of their moving to a municipality which unexpectedly expressed stronger reservations decreases initially by about 40%. The effect is accompanied by a drop of housing prices in these municipalities and levels off over a period of about 5 months. Moreover, foreigners in high-skill occupations react relatively more strongly highlighting a tension when countries try to attract well-educated professionals from abroad.&#8221;<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section class=\"resume\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> <span class=\"Keyword\">Attitudes, <\/span><span class=\"Keyword\">Foreigners, <\/span><span class=\"Keyword\">Location choice, <\/span><span class=\"Keyword\">Popular initiative, <\/span><span class=\"Keyword\">Regression discontinuity design\u00a0<\/span><\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutzer Source : https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00148-019-00729-6 Abstract:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[582,599,7,37,483,120,9,566,104,325,138,110,95,113,361,96],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-582","tag-anti-immigrant-violence","tag-article","tag-attitudes-towards-migrants","tag-communities","tag-data-analysis","tag-english-language","tag-islamophobia","tag-living-conditions","tag-methodology","tag-migration-motives","tag-mobility","tag-populism","tag-public-administration","tag-referendums-and-initiatives","tag-voting-behaviour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}