DP6351 Why Are People More Pro-trade Than Pro-migration?
Author(s): | Anna Maria Mayda |
Publication Date: | June 2007 |
Keyword(s): | Immigration Attitudes, Political Economy, Trade Attitudes |
JEL(s): | F1, F22, J61 |
Programme Areas: | Labour Economics, International Trade and Regional Economics |
Link to this Page: | cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=6351 |
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.