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Labor Market Competition and Attitudes toward Immigrants: New Evidence from Asia
Immigrants in a destination country both alter the prospects of economic development and influence the livelihood of natives. Using data from 10 Asian countries in the 2018-2020 World Value Survey (WVS), we provide new evidence regarding the impact of skill-driven labor market competition on natives’ attitudes toward immigrants. Linking information on occupation-specific human capital accumulation from O*NET to WVS, we explore granular dimensions of natives’ skills and their implications for labor market competition and vulnerability. To account for the possibility of reverse causality (selection in natives’ occupational choices resulting from natives’ inherent preferences toward immigrants), we run the two-stage instrumental variable estimator adopting the control function approach. Holding educational levels constant, we find that natives with greater manual skills and fewer communication skills are more likely to be pro-immigration. We also find that the links between manual skills and attitudes are driven primarily by the level of flexibility in natives’ skills, while the negative impacts of communication skills are driven by natives’ writing abilities. Our results offer important insights for policymakers in Asia to establish nuanced immigration policies and skill-development programs that account for their impacts on intergroup labor market competition and social cohesion.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Labor
Economic Impacts of Globalization: Policy
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
- Thema
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attitudes
immigration
labor market competition
skills
human capital accumulation
control function approach
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Lee, Zeewan
Fong, Joelle H.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
- (wo)
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Kiel, Hamburg
- (wann)
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2023
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
- 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Preprint
Beteiligte
- Lee, Zeewan
- Fong, Joelle H.
- ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
Entstanden
- 2023
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