Date: 2017
Type: Working Paper
Immobility and the Brexit vote
Working Paper, LSE International Inequalities Institute, 2017/19
LEE, Neil, MORRIS, Katy, KEMENY, Thomas, Immobility and the Brexit vote, LSE International Inequalities Institute, 2017/19 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/50427
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
Popular explanations of the Brexit vote have centred on the division between cosmopolitan internationalists who voted Remain and geographically rooted individuals who voted Leave. In this article, we conduct the first empirical test of whether residential immobility—the concept underpinning this distinction—was an important variable in the Brexit vote. We find that locally rooted individuals—defined as those living in their county of birth—were 7% more likely to support Leave. However, the impact of immobility was filtered by local circumstances: immobility only mattered for respondents in areas experiencing relative economic decline or increases in migrant populations.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/50427
Series/Number: LSE International Inequalities Institute; 2017/19
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Funded by LSE Institute of Global Affairs and Rockefeller Foundation