%0 Report
        %A Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj
%A Munch, Jakob R.
%A Schroll, Sanne
%A Skaksen, Jan Rose
        %T Attitudes Towards Immigration: Does Economic Self-Interest Matter?
        %D 2006
        %8 2006 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 2283
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2283
        %X 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.
        %K economic self-interest
%K immigration
%K attitudes