upgrading of the EU15 imports from its emerging neighbours. The EU15 trade with emerging markets in Asia have strengthened the …

Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business … networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of … migrants employed in managerial/business-related occupations has a strong additional effect on trade, and especially on exports …

This paper investigates empirically the role of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) as determinants of migration … the average effects of PTAs on migration flows and on trade, I show that PTAs stimulate bilateral migration flows more … than trade in final goods. PTAs might be used by government to increase inflows of immigrant workers in the case of labour …

We study the role of trade liberalization, democratization and their interaction for technology adoption. A general … equilibrium theory with heterogeneous skills predicts a complementarity between trade and political regimes. Openness should …

vertical linkages to study the impact of trade liberalization on trade creation, trade diversion and labor market outcomes …. This framework allows us to identify a source of gain from trade often neglected in the literature: cost savings on capital … investments. Our model is empirically motivated by the observation that trade liberalization stimulates trade between the …