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Title:
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Attitudes Towards Immigration
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Does Economic Self-Interest Matter |
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Author:
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Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan; Schroll, Sanne; Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj |
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Abstract:
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In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people’s attitudes towards immigration, using data from the European Social Survey 2002/2003. Compared to the existing literature, there are two main contributions of the present paper. First, we develop a more powerful test of the hypothesis that a positive relationship between education and attitudes towards immigration reflects economic self-interest in the labour market. Second, we develop an alternative
and more direct test of whether economic self-interest matters
for people’s attitudes towards immigration. We find that while
the "original" relationship between education and attitudes found in the literature is unlikely to reflect economic self-interest, there is considerable evidence of economic self-interest when using the more direct
test. |
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URI:
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http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7517
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Date:
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2006-12-14 |
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