Michael Hiscox
Biographic Data
| ID | 4430807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Hiscox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Hiscox |
| SIGNATURE | HISCOX M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1495 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Altruistic or expected leadership? Laboratory evidence on what motivates pro-social influence
Political Integration and Disintegration in the Global Economy
The Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policies
This chapter examines the domestic sources of foreign economic policies. Different people in every society typically have different views about what their government should do when it comes to setting the policies that regulate international trade, immigration, investment, and exchange rates. These competing demands must be reconciled in some way by the political institutions that govern policy making. To really understand the domestic origins of…
Comparing Immigration Policies: An Overview from the Impala Database
This paper introduces a method and preliminary findings from a database that systematically measures the character and stringency of immigration policies. Based on the selection of that data for nine countries between 1999 and 2008, we challenge the idea that any one country is systematically the most or least restrictive toward admissions. The data also reveal trends toward more complex and, often, more restrictive regulation since the 1990s, as…
Do concerns about labor market competition shape attitudes toward immigration? New evidence
Consumer Demand for Fair Trade: Evidence from a Multistore Field Experiment
We provide new evidence on consumer demand for ethical products from experiments conducted in a U.S. grocery store chain. We find that sales of the two most popular coffees rose by almost 10% when they carried a Fair Trade label as compared to a generic placebo label. Demand for the higher-priced coffee remained steady when its price was raised by 8%, but demand for the lower-priced coffee was elastic: a 9% price increase led to a 30% decline in …
Measuring Immigration Policies: Preliminary Evidence from Impala
Measuring Immigration Policies: Preliminary Evidence from Impala
Measuring and Comparing Immigration, Asylum and Naturalization Policies Across Countries: Challenges and Solutions
Measuring and Comparing Immigration, Asylum and Naturalization Policies Across Countries: Challenges and Solutions
Academics and policy makers require a better understanding of the variation of policies that regulate global migration, asylum and immigrant naturalization. At present, however, there is no comprehensive cross‐national, time‐series database of such policies, rendering the analysis of policy trends across and within these areas difficult at best. Several new immigration databases and indices have been developed in recent years. However, there is n…
Attitudes toward Highly Skilled and Low-skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Past research has emphasized two critical economic concerns that appear to generate anti-immigrant sentiment among native citizens: concerns about labor market competition and concerns about the fiscal burden on public services. We provide direct tests of both models of attitude formation using an original survey experiment embedded in a nationwide U.S. survey. The labor market competition model predicts that natives will be most opposed to immig…
Educated Preferences: Explaining Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe
Recent studies of individual attitudes toward immigration emphasize concerns about labor-market competition as a potent source of anti-immigrant sentiment, in particular among less-educated or less-skilled citizens who fear being forced to compete for jobs with low-skilled immigrants willing to work for much lower wages. We examine new data on attitudes toward immigration available from the 2003 European Social Survey. In contrast to predictions …
Through a Glass and Darkly: Attitudes Toward International Trade and the Curious Effects of Issue Framing
Are most voters opposed to globalization? A growing body of empirical research, using data from available surveys of public opinion, suggests that antiglobalization sentiments are strong, especially among blue-collar workers. This article reports the findings from a survey experiment aimed at measuring the impact of issue framing on individuals' stated attitudes toward international trade. Respondents given an antitrade introduction to the survey…
Learning to Love Globalization: Education and Individual Attitudes Toward International Trade
Recent studies of public attitudes toward trade have converged on one central finding: support for trade restrictions is highest among respondents with the lowest levels of education+ This has been interpreted as strong support for the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, the classic economic treatment of the income effects of trade that predicts that trade openness benefits those owning factors of production with which their economy is relatively well end…
International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions, and Mobility
International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions, and Mobility
Interindustry Factor Mobility and Technological Change: Evidence on Wage and Profit Dispersion Across U.S. Industries, 1820–1990
Interindustry factor mobility is a crucial determinant of the income-distribution effects of exogenous changes in relative commodity prices. This examination of interindustry variation in wages and profits using data from manufacturing industries from 1820 to 1990 suggests that interindustry factor mobility may be strongly related to the processes of industrialization. Development in the nineteenth century produced a sharp rise in mobility (a dec…
Commerce, Coalitions, and Factor Mobility: Evidence from Congressional Votes on Trade Legislation
The extent to which political conflict over U.S. trade policy has led to clashes between broad-based class coalitions has varied significantly over time during the past two centuries. I argue that much of this variation can be explained by changes in economywide levels of interindustry factor mobility. Class distinctions between voters are more economically and politically salient when interindustry mobility is high; when mobility is low, industr…
Class Versus Industry Cleavages: Inter-Industry Factor Mobility and the Politics of Trade
Domestic political conflict has been a constant companion to international trade, but the nature of that conflict has varied greatly in Western democracies over the last two centuries. Political battles over trade policy appear to have sometimes divided societies along broad class lines and at other times split them into narrow industry-based coalitions. I argue that this diversity stems from historical and cross-national variation in inter-indus…
National Politics in a Global Economy: The Domestic Sources of U.S. Trade Policy
Journal Article National Politics in a Global Economy: The Domestic Sources of U.S. Trade Policy Get access National Politics in a Global Economy: The Domestic Sources of U.S. Trade Policy by Philip A. Mundo. Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 1999. 308 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.95. Michael J. Hiscox Michael J. Hiscox University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Politic…
The Magic Bullet? The RTAA, Institutional Reform, and Trade Liberalization
The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA) of 1934 has long been heralded as a simple institutional reform with revolutionary consequences: namely, by changing the trade policymaking process in the United States, the RTAA is held responsible for the dramatic liberalization in U.S. policy beginning in the 1930s and 1940s. This article takes issue with this conventional wisdom. I argue that the standard accounts—which emphasize the importance of de…
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting: A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition: A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition
Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting , this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yüan Hua Chuan" (original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has translated and annotated the texts of instructions, discussions of the fundamentals of painting, notes on the preparation of colors, and chief editorial prefaces.
Attitudes toward Highly Skilled and Low-skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Past research has emphasized two critical economic concerns that appear to generate anti-immigrant sentiment among native citizens: concerns about labor market competition and concerns about the fiscal burden on public services. We provide direct tests of both models of attitude formation using an original survey experiment embedded in a nationwide U.S. survey. The labor market competition model predicts that natives will be most opposed to immig…
Educated Preferences: Explaining Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe
Recent studies of individual attitudes toward immigration emphasize concerns about labor-market competition as a potent source of anti-immigrant sentiment, in particular among less-educated or less-skilled citizens who fear being forced to compete for jobs with low-skilled immigrants willing to work for much lower wages. We examine new data on attitudes toward immigration available from the 2003 European Social Survey. In contrast to predictions …
Learning to Love Globalization: Education and Individual Attitudes Toward International Trade
Recent studies of public attitudes toward trade have converged on one central finding: support for trade restrictions is highest among respondents with the lowest levels of education+ This has been interpreted as strong support for the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, the classic economic treatment of the income effects of trade that predicts that trade openness benefits those owning factors of production with which their economy is relatively well end…
Through a Glass and Darkly: Attitudes Toward International Trade and the Curious Effects of Issue Framing
Are most voters opposed to globalization? A growing body of empirical research, using data from available surveys of public opinion, suggests that antiglobalization sentiments are strong, especially among blue-collar workers. This article reports the findings from a survey experiment aimed at measuring the impact of issue framing on individuals' stated attitudes toward international trade. Respondents given an antitrade introduction to the survey…
Class Versus Industry Cleavages: Inter-Industry Factor Mobility and the Politics of Trade
Domestic political conflict has been a constant companion to international trade, but the nature of that conflict has varied greatly in Western democracies over the last two centuries. Political battles over trade policy appear to have sometimes divided societies along broad class lines and at other times split them into narrow industry-based coalitions. I argue that this diversity stems from historical and cross-national variation in inter-indus…
Commerce, Coalitions, and Factor Mobility: Evidence from Congressional Votes on Trade Legislation
The extent to which political conflict over U.S. trade policy has led to clashes between broad-based class coalitions has varied significantly over time during the past two centuries. I argue that much of this variation can be explained by changes in economywide levels of interindustry factor mobility. Class distinctions between voters are more economically and politically salient when interindustry mobility is high; when mobility is low, industr…
The Magic Bullet? The RTAA, Institutional Reform, and Trade Liberalization
The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA) of 1934 has long been heralded as a simple institutional reform with revolutionary consequences: namely, by changing the trade policymaking process in the United States, the RTAA is held responsible for the dramatic liberalization in U.S. policy beginning in the 1930s and 1940s. This article takes issue with this conventional wisdom. I argue that the standard accounts—which emphasize the importance of de…
Comparing Immigration Policies: An Overview from the Impala Database
This paper introduces a method and preliminary findings from a database that systematically measures the character and stringency of immigration policies. Based on the selection of that data for nine countries between 1999 and 2008, we challenge the idea that any one country is systematically the most or least restrictive toward admissions. The data also reveal trends toward more complex and, often, more restrictive regulation since the 1990s, as…
Interindustry Factor Mobility and Technological Change: Evidence on Wage and Profit Dispersion Across U.S. Industries, 1820–1990
Interindustry factor mobility is a crucial determinant of the income-distribution effects of exogenous changes in relative commodity prices. This examination of interindustry variation in wages and profits using data from manufacturing industries from 1820 to 1990 suggests that interindustry factor mobility may be strongly related to the processes of industrialization. Development in the nineteenth century produced a sharp rise in mobility (a dec…
International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions, and Mobility
Altruistic or expected leadership? Laboratory evidence on what motivates pro-social influence
The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting: A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition: A Facsimile of the 1887-1888 Shanghai Edition
Originally published as Volume 2 of The Tao of Painting , this is the first English translation of the famous Chinese handbook, the "Chieh Tzu Yüan Hua Chuan" (original, 1679-1701). Mai-mai Sze has translated and annotated the texts of instructions, discussions of the fundamentals of painting, notes on the preparation of colors, and chief editorial prefaces.
The Magic Bullet? The RTAA, Institutional Reform, and Trade Liberalization
The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA) of 1934 has long been heralded as a simple institutional reform with revolutionary consequences: namely, by changing the trade policymaking process in the United States, the RTAA is held responsible for the dramatic liberalization in U.S. policy beginning in the 1930s and 1940s. This article takes issue with this conventional wisdom. I argue that the standard accounts—which emphasize the importance of de…
National Politics in a Global Economy: The Domestic Sources of U.S. Trade Policy
Journal Article National Politics in a Global Economy: The Domestic Sources of U.S. Trade Policy Get access National Politics in a Global Economy: The Domestic Sources of U.S. Trade Policy by Philip A. Mundo. Washington, DC, Georgetown University Press, 1999. 308 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $22.95. Michael J. Hiscox Michael J. Hiscox University of California, San Diego Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Politic…
Class Versus Industry Cleavages: Inter-Industry Factor Mobility and the Politics of Trade
Domestic political conflict has been a constant companion to international trade, but the nature of that conflict has varied greatly in Western democracies over the last two centuries. Political battles over trade policy appear to have sometimes divided societies along broad class lines and at other times split them into narrow industry-based coalitions. I argue that this diversity stems from historical and cross-national variation in inter-indus…
International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions, and Mobility
Interindustry Factor Mobility and Technological Change: Evidence on Wage and Profit Dispersion Across U.S. Industries, 1820–1990
Interindustry factor mobility is a crucial determinant of the income-distribution effects of exogenous changes in relative commodity prices. This examination of interindustry variation in wages and profits using data from manufacturing industries from 1820 to 1990 suggests that interindustry factor mobility may be strongly related to the processes of industrialization. Development in the nineteenth century produced a sharp rise in mobility (a dec…
Commerce, Coalitions, and Factor Mobility: Evidence from Congressional Votes on Trade Legislation
The extent to which political conflict over U.S. trade policy has led to clashes between broad-based class coalitions has varied significantly over time during the past two centuries. I argue that much of this variation can be explained by changes in economywide levels of interindustry factor mobility. Class distinctions between voters are more economically and politically salient when interindustry mobility is high; when mobility is low, industr…
International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions, and Mobility
Through a Glass and Darkly: Attitudes Toward International Trade and the Curious Effects of Issue Framing
Are most voters opposed to globalization? A growing body of empirical research, using data from available surveys of public opinion, suggests that antiglobalization sentiments are strong, especially among blue-collar workers. This article reports the findings from a survey experiment aimed at measuring the impact of issue framing on individuals' stated attitudes toward international trade. Respondents given an antitrade introduction to the survey…
Learning to Love Globalization: Education and Individual Attitudes Toward International Trade
Recent studies of public attitudes toward trade have converged on one central finding: support for trade restrictions is highest among respondents with the lowest levels of education+ This has been interpreted as strong support for the Stolper-Samuelson theorem, the classic economic treatment of the income effects of trade that predicts that trade openness benefits those owning factors of production with which their economy is relatively well end…
Educated Preferences: Explaining Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe
Recent studies of individual attitudes toward immigration emphasize concerns about labor-market competition as a potent source of anti-immigrant sentiment, in particular among less-educated or less-skilled citizens who fear being forced to compete for jobs with low-skilled immigrants willing to work for much lower wages. We examine new data on attitudes toward immigration available from the 2003 European Social Survey. In contrast to predictions …
Attitudes toward Highly Skilled and Low-skilled Immigration: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
Past research has emphasized two critical economic concerns that appear to generate anti-immigrant sentiment among native citizens: concerns about labor market competition and concerns about the fiscal burden on public services. We provide direct tests of both models of attitude formation using an original survey experiment embedded in a nationwide U.S. survey. The labor market competition model predicts that natives will be most opposed to immig…
Measuring Immigration Policies: Preliminary Evidence from Impala
Measuring and Comparing Immigration, Asylum and Naturalization Policies Across Countries: Challenges and Solutions
Measuring and Comparing Immigration, Asylum and Naturalization Policies Across Countries: Challenges and Solutions
Academics and policy makers require a better understanding of the variation of policies that regulate global migration, asylum and immigrant naturalization. At present, however, there is no comprehensive cross‐national, time‐series database of such policies, rendering the analysis of policy trends across and within these areas difficult at best. Several new immigration databases and indices have been developed in recent years. However, there is n…
Do concerns about labor market competition shape attitudes toward immigration? New evidence
Consumer Demand for Fair Trade: Evidence from a Multistore Field Experiment
We provide new evidence on consumer demand for ethical products from experiments conducted in a U.S. grocery store chain. We find that sales of the two most popular coffees rose by almost 10% when they carried a Fair Trade label as compared to a generic placebo label. Demand for the higher-priced coffee remained steady when its price was raised by 8%, but demand for the lower-priced coffee was elastic: a 9% price increase led to a 30% decline in …
Measuring Immigration Policies: Preliminary Evidence from Impala
Comparing Immigration Policies: An Overview from the Impala Database
This paper introduces a method and preliminary findings from a database that systematically measures the character and stringency of immigration policies. Based on the selection of that data for nine countries between 1999 and 2008, we challenge the idea that any one country is systematically the most or least restrictive toward admissions. The data also reveal trends toward more complex and, often, more restrictive regulation since the 1990s, as…
The Domestic Sources of Foreign Economic Policies
This chapter examines the domestic sources of foreign economic policies. Different people in every society typically have different views about what their government should do when it comes to setting the policies that regulate international trade, immigration, investment, and exchange rates. These competing demands must be reconciled in some way by the political institutions that govern policy making. To really understand the domestic origins of…
Political Integration and Disintegration in the Global Economy
Altruistic or expected leadership? Laboratory evidence on what motivates pro-social influence
Economics (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Immigration (8 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 works) · Demographic economics (7 works) · Global trade and economics (7 works) · International trade (7 works) · Law (7 works)