Do Employers Support Immigration?

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Do Employers Support Immigration?

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Yuji Tamura () (Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin)

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Yuji Tamura

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This paper examines whether or not being an employer was an important determinant of individual preferences for immigration restriction in the EU member states in the eve of the 2004 enlargement. Our results do not confirm that employers were more pro-immigration than the rest by expecting a reduction in the cost of labor except in the following sector: sanitation-related activities such as refuse disposal and recreational, cultural and sports activities. On the contrary, we find that employers were more likely to be anti-immigration than the rest in sectors where foreign workers were highly present, such as household activities, construction, wholesale, hotels and restaurants.

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Paper provided by Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics in its series Trinity Economics Papers with number tep1107.

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Length: 49 pages
Date of creation: Oct 2007
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Handle: RePEc:tcd:tcduee:tep1107

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F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2007-10-13 (All new papers)
NEP-EEC-2007-10-13 (European Economics)
NEP-HRM-2007-10-13 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
NEP-MIG-2007-10-13 (Economics of Human Migration)

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