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Another factor that separated those who voted to remain and those who voted to leave are instrumental factors Support for the EU can therefore be conditional on whether or not people believe that the state s membership in the EU can and will serve their own self interests and most of these interests tend to be economic Clarke et al 2017 classify this to be Cost Benefit analysis which can separate the public into winners and losers This in relation to the EU can take different forms The Curtice 2017 literature points out that high economic occupational and educational positions are important because these people are able to make the best use of the EU Those who have high status occupation and have high and significant human capital are able to benefit from the low trade barriers along with the increase of geographical mobility of labour due to the high levels of integration that the EU brings On the contrary those who are in poorly paid jobs have low status and a lack of educational qualifications tend to find themselves competing with others who are in similar low skilled labour fields that have however emigrated from EU member states
