Why do people dislike low-wage trade competition with posted workers in the service sector?

Calmfors, LarsStockholms universitet,Institutet för internationell ekonomi (författare)

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 (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.

Dimdins, G.University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia (författare)
Gustafsson Sendén, MarieStockholms universitet,Psykologiska institutionen(Swepub:su)magu8259 (författare)
Montgomery, HenryStockholms universitet,Psykologiska institutionen(Swepub:su)hmy (författare)
Stavlöt, U.Fores, Stockholm (författare)
Stockholms universitetInstitutet för internationell ekonomi (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:The Journal of Socio-Economics: Elsevier BV47, s. 82-931053-53571879-1239

Av författaren/redakt...: Calmfors, Lars; Dimdins, G.; Gustafsson Sendé ...; Montgomery, Henr ...; Stavlöt, U.

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