EAN: 9780691174488

TRADING BARRIERS - MARGARET E PETERS KARTONIERT...

Why have countries increasingly restricted immigration even when they have opened their markets
to foreign competition through trade or allowed their firms to move jobs overseas? In Trading
Barriers  Margaret Peters argues that the increased ability of firms to produce anywhere in the
world combined with growing international competition due to lowered trade barriers has led to
greater limits on immigration. Peters explains that businesses relying on low-skill labor have
been the major proponents of greater openness to immigrants. Immigration helps lower costs 
making these businesses more competitive at home and abroad. However  increased international
competition  due to lower trade barriers and greater economic development in the developing
world  has led many businesses in wealthy countries to close or move overseas. Productivity
increases have allowed those firms that have chosen to remain behind to do more with fewer
workers. Together  these changes in the international economy have sapped the crucial business
support necessary for more open immigration policies at home  empowered anti-immigrant groups 
and spurred greater controls on migration.

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