Populism and the Skill-Content of Globalization: Evidence from the Last 60 Years

Are Immigrants More Left Wing than Natives?

“…Col.s (10) to (14) dependent variables are voted party probability to be a right-wing party, a left wing party, a populist party, a right-wing populist party and left-wing populist party. All the measures are taken from Docquier et al (2022). Robust standard errors clustered at the country level.…”

“…In columns ( 16) to (18), we remove all populist parties, right wing populist and left wing according to the definition by Docquier et al (2022), to see whether our results are driven by the support (or lack thereof) for a subset of extreme populist parties. Finally columns unobserved factors should be 6.7 times more important than selection on observed factors to generate an estimated partial correlation between second generation dummies and voting preferences equal to zero.…”

“…Finally, we explore whether immigrants are more likely to vote for right-wing or left-wing parties (a discrete version of our earlier index) and if they vote for 'populist' parties. In this analysis we rely on the set of indicators developed by Docquier et al (2022). 26 Populism emphasize antiestablishment sentiment, negative attitudes towards the EU, protection of internal markets and national sovereignty (see Mudde, 2004;Morelli et al, 2021 for details).…”

“…Docquier et al (2022) defines right-wing, left-wing, populist, right-wing populist parties and left-wing populist parties over the whole MPD sample. Parties on the bottom and top tercile of the left-to-right index distribution available in MPD are defined as left wing/right wing, respectively.…”