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Individual Attitudes Towards Trade: Stolper-Samuelson Revisited

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  • Ina Jäkel
  • Marcel Smolka

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Using the 2007 wave of the Pew Global Attitudes Project, this paper finds statistically significant and economically large Stolper-Samuelson effects in individuals’ preference formation towards trade policy. High-skilled individuals are substantially more pro-trade than low-skilled individuals in high-skilled labor abundant countries, and vice versa in a considerable share of low-skilled labor abundant countries. Our novel international survey data combine a number of desirable features which allow us to paint a more distinct and thus more convincing picture of the role of the Heckscher-Ohlin model in shaping free trade attitudes, relative to existing literature. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

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  • Ina Jäkel & Marcel Smolka, 2013. "Individual Attitudes Towards Trade: Stolper-Samuelson Revisited," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 24(4), pages 731-761, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:openec:v:24:y:2013:i:4:p:731-761
    DOI: 10.1007/s11079-012-9263-3
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    Trade policy; Voter preferences; Political economy; Heckscher-Ohlin trade theory; F11; F13;
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    • F11 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Neoclassical Models of Trade
    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations

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