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Why Do People Dislike Low-Wage Trade Competition with Posted Workers in the Service Sector?
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute for International Economic Studies.
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5398-2894
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7811-1390
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Abstract [en]

The issue of low-wage competition in services trade involving posted workers is controversial in the EU. Using Swedish survey data, people’s attitudes are found to be more negative to such trade than to goods trade. The differences depend on both a preference for favouring social groups to which individuals belong (here the domestic population) and altruistic justice concerns for foreign workers. In small-group experiments we find a tendency for people to adjust their evaluations of various aspects of trade to their general attitude. This tendency is stronger for those opposed to than those in favour of low-wage trade competition. This may indicate that the former group forms its attitudes in a less rational way than the latter group.

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Stockholm: Stockholm University, 2012. , p. 31
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Seminar Paper / Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University. (Online), ISSN 1653-610X ; 771
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services trade, posted workers, wage regulations, attitude formation
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Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77497OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-77497DiVA, id: diva2:533199
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Also as CESifo Working Paper 3842

Available from: 2012-06-13 Created: 2012-06-13 Last updated: 2022-02-24Bibliographically approved

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