Do xenophobic attitudes influence migrant workers' regional location choice?

Autor/inn/en	Buch, Tanja; Burkert, Carola; Hell, Stefan; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Haas, Anette
Titel	Do xenophobic attitudes influence migrant workers' regional location choice?
Quelle	In: PLOS ONE, 20 (2025) 2, 24 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1932-6203
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0316627
Schlagwörter	Einstellung (Psy); Binnenwanderung; Regionale Mobilität; Wohnen; Wohnort; Bevölkerungsstruktur; Kriminalität; Migrationshintergrund; Wahlverhalten; Berufsbiografie; Qualifikation; Auswirkung; Regionaler Faktor; Regionaler Vergleich; Deutschland
Abstract	"This paper investigates whether xenophobic attitudes, as measured by the regional share of votes for right-wing parties and xenophobic violence, affect migrants' choices of where to live in Germany. We use a unique panel data set for the period 2004 to 2017 and apply fixed effects regression models and instrumental variable estimation to examine the relationship between anti-immigrant attitudes and immigration. Our results indicate that xenophobic attitudes tend to reduce regional labour immigration. However, evidence seems to be more robust for the support of right-wing parties than for xenophobic violence. Regarding heterogeneous effects across skill groups, the findings are ambiguous. While the immigration of skilled workers seems to be more sensitive to xenophobic violence, evidence is more robust for the share of right-wing votes in the case of low-skilled foreign workers. The strength of the adverse effect of anti-immigrant attitudes tends to increase with the local size of the coethnic community." The study refers to the period 2004-2017 (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © PLoS ONE).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2025/3