Individual Attitudes Towards Trade: Stolper-Samuelson Revisited

Ina Charlotte Jäkel; Marcel Smolka

doi:10.1007/s11079-012-9263-3

Individual Attitudes Towards Trade: Stolper-Samuelson Revisited

Department of Economics and Business Economics

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	Open Economies Review
Volume	24
Issue	4
Pages (from-to)	731-761
Number of pages	31
ISSN	0923-7992
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11079-012-9263-3
Publication status	Published - 2013

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