Abstract
Studies of the political economy of immigration policy investigate voters’ attitudes to immigrants (see for example [2], [10], [17]). Such studies require an underlying basis that explains why a voter might personally support or object to immigration. One basis that identifies personal gains and losses from immigration is the standard full-employment model of international trade and factor movements (see [22]), where voter sentiment to immigration is derived from changes in real incomes, with some persons (generally described as factor owners) gaining from immigration and others losing.
We thank Joseph Deutsch, Abraham Lioui, Dennis Snower, Avi Weiss, Kar-yiu Wong and Thomas Piketty for helpful comments.
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Epstein, G.S., Hillman, A.L. (2004). Unemployed Immigrants and Voter Sentiment in the Welfare State. In: Katayama, S., Ursprung, H.W. (eds) International Economic Policies in a Globalized World. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17134-5_7
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