Stephen Broadberry, Kevin H. O\u27Rourke (eds.): The Cambridge economic history of modern Europe, Vol. 1 (1700-1870) in Vol. 2 (1870 to the present), Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 344 in 486 str.

Stephen Broadberry, Kevin H. O\u27Rourke (eds.): The Cambridge economic history of modern Europe, Vol. 1 (1700-1870) in Vol. 2 (1870 to the present), Cambridge - New Yor

Heckscher-Ohlin Theory and Individual Attitudes Towards Globalization

The aim of the paper is to see whether individuals’ attitudes towards globalization are consistent with the predictions of Heckscher-Ohlin theory. The theory predicts that the impact of being skilled or unskilled on attitudes towards trade and immigration should depend on a country’s skill endowments, with the skilled being less anti-trade and antiimmigration in more skill-abundant countries (here taken to be richer countries) than in more unskilled-labour-abundant countries (here taken to be poorer countries). These predictions are confirmed, using survey data for 24 countries. The high-skilled are pro-globalization in rich countries; while in some of the very poorest countries in the sample being high-skilled has a negative (if statistically insignificant) impact on pro-globalization sentiment. More generally, an interaction term between skills and GDP per capita has a negative impact in regressions explaining anti-globalization sentiment. Furthermore, individuals view protectionism and anti-immigrant policies as complements rather than as substitutes, as they would do in a simple Heckscher-Ohlin worldglobalization, attitudes, survey data, Hecksher-Ohlin theory.

Europe and the causes of globalization, 1790 to 2000

Forthcoming in H. Kierzkowski (ed.), From Europeanization of the Globe to the Globalization of Europe (Palgrave, 2002).