The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States

This paper studies the impact of immigration to United States on vote share for Republican Party using county-level data from 1990 2016. Our main contribution is show that an increase in high-skilled immigrants decreases votes, while inflow low-skilled increases it. These effects are mainly due indirect existing citizens’ and this independent origin country race immigrants. We find political effect heterogeneous across counties depends their skill level, public spending, noneconomic characteristics. (JEL D72, J15, J24, J61, R23)