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Globalization is not only about the rise of trade, FDI, and migration. It is also about the changing linkages among … liberalization fostered not only trade but also inward investment, confirming that trade and FDI toward developing countries have …, trade policies and the stock of FDI have a positive impact on the incentives to invest in education. This set of findings …
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This paper explores the links between the patterns of migration (high vs. low-skill), trade policy, and foreign direct …-skill intensive, emigration of high- skill labour leads to positive FDI, suggesting that migration and FDI are complements. Cross …-sectional analysis using FDI and emigration data for 103 migration-sending countries over the period 1990-2000 finds some support for …
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different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic … resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … of the distribution of economic activity in the different migration scenarios. Our results indicate that fully …
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The paper studies attitudes toward immigration and trade using an opinion survey of two thousand French individuals. We … find that, beyond usual Stolper-Samuelson effects (skilled individuals are more pro-free trade than others, as in other … countries) attitudes toward trade and immigration are correlated and both are ideologically loaded. Right-wing affiliation is …
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-driven and the decision to serve foreign countries via exports or FDI depends on a proximity-concentration trade-off. We … characterize the joint patterns of trade and FDI when countries differ in income distribution and size and show that FDI is more …We study patterns of FDI in a multi-country world economy. First, we present evidence for a broad sample of countries …
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The effects of ISO 9000 diffusion on trade and FDI have gone understudied. We employ panel data reported by OECD … diffusion to have no effect in developed nations, but to positively pull FDI (i.e., enhancing inward FDI) and positively push … trade (i.e., enhancing exports) in developing nations. …
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firms to serve foreign markets either through exports or local subsidiary sales (FDI). These modes of market access involve … serve the overseas market via FDI. The Paper then explores several implications of the individual firms’ decisions for … aggregate export and FDI sales relative to the domestic and foreign market sizes. In particular, it is shown that firm level …
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
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In this paper, we provide aggregate trends in China’s trade performance from the 1840s to the present. Based on …, currently the world’s largest port. Shanghai began direct trade relations with western nations starting in 1843. By 1853 …, Shanghai already accounted for more than half of China’s foreign trade. In tracking the levels and growth rates of the city …
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experience. The general finding is that trade matters more than migration, which is contrary to the public attention both …The paper investigates the relative importance of trade and immigration for earnings and job mobility of male German … exhibits a positive effect. Trade seems to depress occupational mobility and internal movement, but stimulates inter …
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