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 …

a Chinese network, its trade creating potential is dwarfed by other ethnic networks. The large heterogeneity in the … trade-creating potential of different networks is, among other things, explained by the share of high-skilled immigrants …Influential empirical work by Rauch and Trindade (REStat, 2002) finds that Chinese ethnic networks of the magnitude …

This paper investigates the role of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) on bilateral international migration. By … increasing the information on the potential destination country, RTAs may favour bilateral migration flows among member countries …. Building on the gravity model for migration by Anderson (2011), our econometric strategy controls for the multilateral …

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