Lecture by Dr. Jan Gromadzki at the Faculty of Economic Sciences – May 15, 2025

We cordially invite you to attend the lecture titled „Exclusionary Government Rhetoric and Migration Intentions”. The speaker, Dr. Jan Gromadzki from the Vienna University of Economics and Business, will present his study in person at the Faculty of Economic Sciences.

The seminar, organised as part of the Warsaw Economic Seminars series, will take place on May 15, 2025, at 17:00 in Room A203. There is also an option to join the seminar remotely.

Link to the meeting: https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/93278126659?pwd=HAlBLR5bz9uqFroMDWLPnPF02vgqWi.1

[Meeting ID: 932 7812 6659

Passcode: 014067]

Below you will find the abstract of the presentation.

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In 2019, almost 100 local governments in Poland voted to declare their localities "free from LGBT ideology." We study the effects of these declarations on migration intentions using unique data on domestic and international job search from a large global job site. Comparing counties with anti-LGBTQ resolutions to neighboring counties in a difference-in-differences design, we find that the resolutions increased domestic out-of-county job search by 12 percent and international job search by 15 percent, driven by European destination countries with high standards of LGBTQ rights. The shock to perceptions of local social norms likely drives our results, as we find largest effects in counties with relatively low support for far-right parties. We also present suggestive evidence that these effects translated into actual migration, with treated counties losing up to one percent of their young adult population.