Labor Market Competition and Individual Preferences Over Immigration Policy

By Kenneth F. Scheve, Matthew J. Slaughter. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001

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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration (2007, positive): “Overall, our findings echo those of Scheve and Slaughter (2001), who estimate similar models for the US.”
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF U.S. FOREIGN AID: AMERICAN LEGISLATORS AND THE DOMESTIC POLITICS OF AID (2009, background): “Studies of other foreign policies, like trade, immigration, and sanctions, have identified the supporters and opponents of these policies in much detail (e.g. Hiscox, 2002; Martin, 1992; Rogowski, 1989; Scheve and Slaughter, 2001b).”
Violence, displacement, contact, and attitudes toward hosting refugees (2019, background): “5 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/mar/07/syriarefugees-tensions-lebanon. welfare provision and economic performance (Scheve & Slaughter, 2001; Wike, Stokes & Simmons, 2016), as well as perceived threats to security (Salehyan & Gleditsch, 2006; Salehyan, 2008; Böhmelt, Bove &…”
Immigration, Ethnic Diversity, and Political Outcomes: Evidence from Denmark (2018, background): “…number of studies examining attitudes towards immigration and how these are shaped by existing immigration flows (see, e.g., Citrin et al., 1997; Scheve and Slaughter, 2001; O’Rourke and Sinnott, 2006; Dustmann and Preston, 2006, 2007; Hainmueller and Hiscox, 2007, 2010; Facchini and Mayda,…”
People Flows in Globalization (2006, background): “Persons who might be adversely affected by immigrants in the labor market show modestly more negative attitudes toward immigration than others (Scheve and Slaughter, 2001, for the United States; Dustman and Preston, 2004, for the European Union).”
Globalization, immigration and national identity: How the level of globalization affects the relations between nationalism, constructive patriotism and attitudes toward immigrants? (2012, background): “Since studies have found that less-skilled workers are likely to oppose immigration (Scheve & Slaughter 2001), the second measure explicitly observes the supposed competition among less-skilled workers at the national level.”
International Migration and the Developing World (2010, background): “Among OECD destinations, the level of difference in income between high- and low-skill labor is largest in the United States, with Canada having the fourth-largest difference (the United Kingdom and Australia coming in at numbers two and three).”
Explicit Evidence on the Import of Implicit Attitudes: The IAT and Immigration Policy Judgments (2010, neutral): “…have typically been used in order to account for plausible individual-level differences that are not political (e.g., conservatism) or racial (e.g., ethnocentrism) in nature, thereby allowing one to obtain more precise estimates of the latter (e.g., Citrin et al. 1997; Scheve and Slaughter 2001).”
Learning to Love Globalization: Education and Individual Attitudes Toward International Trade (2006, methodology): “…recent analysis of the political economy of trade in contemporary advanced economies: see Magee 1980; Grossman and Helpman 1994; and Hiscox 2002+ 55+ Scheve and Slaughter 2001a and 2001b examine industry effects using this approach and industry coding supplied in the NES+ Mayda and Rodrik 2005…”
Comparing Immigration Policies: An Overview from the IMPALA Database 1 (2016, background): “Some scholars focus upon the real or expected economic impacts of past immigration, such as fears about labor-market competition (Borjas 1999; Scheve and Slaughter 2001; Mayda 2006).”
Is immigration good or bad for the economy? analysis of attitudinal responses (2006, methodology): “Secondly, we 2Related issues come up also in the literature on preferences on trade policies - see for instance papers by Mayda and Rodrik (2001), Scheve and Slaughter (2001) and O’Rourke and Sinnot (2001).”