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Refugee Migration and the Politics of Redistribution: Do Supply and Demand Meet?

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Author	Matakos, Konstantinos Savolainen, Riikka Tukiainen, Janne
Copyright Year	2020
Description	Journal: Ssrn Electronic Journal We study whether establishing new asylum-seeker centers influences the redistribution related policy positions of candidates in local elections in Finland — a country where municipalities have significant control over fiscal policies. The sudden and unprecedentedly large inflow of the asylum seekers in autumn 2015 and the resulting establishment of asylum centres facilitates a difference-in-differences research design. We focus on the supply side of redistributive politics and find that on average candidates do not respond to the presence of the centers by proposing less (or more) redistribution in a voting aid application survey. Our estimates are precise enough to rule out even fairly small effects both for all the candidates and the elected ones. In contrast, on the demand side, there is evidence of various voter responses on average suggesting that electoral politics may limit to some extent the impact of voter preferences on such policies. However, in the very smallest municipalities where there are many refugees per capita we find that also the candidates become less favorable towards redistribution. In other words, intensity of exposure to refugee migration seems to be behind any observed supply-side response regarding redistribution.
Related Links	http://ace-economics.fi/kuvat/dp132.pdf https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm?abstractid=3544184
ISSN	10914358
e-ISSN	15565068
DOI	10.2139/ssrn.3544184
Journal	Ssrn Electronic Journal
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier BV
Publisher Date	2020-02-25
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Journal: Ssrn Electronic Journal Political Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Psychiatry and Mental Health

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