Why Are People More Pro-Trade than Pro-Migration?

Anna Maria Mayda

No 2855, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: I analyze individual attitudes towards trade and immigration in comparative terms. I find that individuals are on average more pro-trade than pro-immigration across several countries. I identify a key source of this difference: the cleavage in trade preferences, absent in immigration attitudes, between individuals working in traded as opposed to non-traded sectors.

Keywords: trade attitudes; immigration attitudes; political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9 pages
Date: 2007-06
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Published - published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 101 (3), 160-163

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