We study the migration behavior of the native Swedish population following refugee immigration, with a particular focus on examining whether there is support for an ethnically based migration response. Using rich geo-coded Swedish data, we account for possible endogeneity problems by combining policy-induced initial immigrant settlements with exogenous contemporaneous immigration as captured by refugee shocks. We find the same flight among all natives, irrespective of their parental foreign background. This suggests that “ethnic distance” to the new immigrants is not the dominant channel causing natives’ flight behavior. Instead, refugee immigration seems to lead to more socio-economically segregated neighborhoods.

我们研究了难民移民之后瑞典瑞典人的迁移行为，特别着重于研究是否支持基于种族的移民对策。我们使用丰富的地理编码瑞典数据，通过将政策导致的初始移民定居点与难民冲击所捕获的外来同期移民相结合，来解决可能的内生性问题。我们发现所有原住民之间的飞行情况相同，无论其父母的外国背景如何。这表明，与新移民的“种族距离”并不是导致当地人逃跑行为的主要渠道。相反，难民移民似乎导致了社会经济上更加隔离的社区。