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be pro-immigration in the country unless the sectoral employability of immi-
grant labor is sufficiently high. Note that the marginal effect of employ × isb
was found statistically insignificant for the country in Table 5. We find that
neither the effect of employ nor that of employ × isb is statistically significant
at the Union level.

The marginal effect of unemploy × isb is significantly positive only for
Italy where the effect of unemploy is significantly negative. It suggests that
the unemployed were more likely to be restrictive than the rest in sectors
with a relatively high proportion of foreign workers. For Spain and France,
however, the marginal effect of unemploy × isb is significantly negative, and
the effect of unemploy is positive, suggesting that, as far as isb was suffi-
ciently low, the unemployed were more likely to be anti-immigration than
the others. This again implies that isb may not be a good measure of the
sectoral employability of immigrant workers in some countries. At the Union
level, we find that the unemployed are more likely to be restrictive than the
rest regardless of isb, as we found in Table 5. Note also that the Italian and
Spanish results were the same in sign as in Table 5.

The effects of the other explanatory variables remain almost the same as
in Table 6(a).

Table 7(b) shows that the marginal effect of employ × isb is significantly
negative for Finland where the effect of employ is significantly positive. Here
the respondents did not think that immigration would depress wages. Hence
the source of the negative sign is not due to the wage impact of immigration.
Note that the marginal effect of employ ×isb is significantly positive for Spain.
We also find the effect of employ significantly positive for the Netherlands

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