02254cam a22002537 4500001000600000003000500006005001700011008004100028100002100069245011600090260006600206490004100272500001500313520116200328530006101490538007201551538003601623690005401659690010601713710004201819830007601861856003701937856002601974w9872NBER20140713000405.0140713s2003 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aO'Rourke, Kevin.10aHeckscher-Ohlin Theory and Individual Attitudes Towards Globalizationh[electronic resource] /cKevin O'Rourke. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc2003.1 aNBER working paper seriesvno. w9872 aJuly 2003.3 aThe 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 anti-immigration 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. Being high-skilled is associated with more pro-globalization attitudes 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, which is what simple Heckscher-Ohlin theory predicts. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web. 7aF1 - Trade2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aF2 - International Factor Movements and International Business2Journal of Economic Literature class.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. w9872.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w9872 uurn:doi:10.3386/w9872