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

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  • Mayda, Anna Maria

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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.

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Length: 9 pages
Date of creation: Jun 2007
Publication status: published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 101 (3), 160-163
Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp2855
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Keywords: trade attitudes; immigration attitudes; political economy;

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  • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
  • F1 - International Economics - - Trade
  • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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