Journal article
Skill specificity and attitudes towards immigration
- Abstract:
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Labor market competition theories explaining anti‐immigrant attitudes have received limited or no empirical validation in recent literature. This has led researchers to highlight education and cultural values as the main, if not the sole, drivers of attitudes toward immigration. We present a new labor market competition theory focusing on job availability rather than foreign labor supply. This theory predicts that individuals with low transferable skills in the labor market will articulate a ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Publisher's website
- Journal:
- American Journal of Political Science Journal website
- Volume:
- 63
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 286-304
- Publication date:
- 2018-11-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-09-20
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1540-5907
- ISSN:
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0092-5853
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:927400
- UUID:
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uuid:08533dcd-a8aa-4e0e-947f-cb5b16502777
- Local pid:
- pubs:927400
- Source identifiers:
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927400
- Deposit date:
- 2018-10-15
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- Copyright holder:
- Midwest Political Science Association
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Rights statement:
- © 2018, Midwest Political Science Association
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Wiley at https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12406
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