TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj
AU  - Munch, Jakob R.
AU  - Schroll, Sanne
AU  - Skaksen, Jan Rose
        TI  - Attitudes Towards Immigration: Does Economic Self-Interest Matter?
        PY  - 2006/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2283
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp2283
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - economic self-interest
KW  - immigration
KW  - attitudes
        ER  -