Attitudes towards immigration--Perceived consequences and economic self-interest

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Jakob Munch, Sanne Schroll and Jan Skaksen

Economics Letters, 2008, vol. 100, issue 2, 254-257

Abstract: Using the European Social Survey 2002/3, we develop a new test of whether economic self-interest influences people's attitudes towards immigration, exploiting that people have widely different perceptions of the consequences of immigration.

Date: 2008
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