Why Are People More Pro-trade Than Pro-migration?

Anna Maria Mayda

No 6351, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

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: Immigration attitudes; Political economy; Trade attitudes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-06
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