Bratti, Massimiliano; Benedictis, Luca de; Santoni, Gianluca - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012
n this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows. We exploit the very favorable set … and imports, much larger for the latter. The pro-trade effects of immigrants tend to decline in space, and even turn … negative when large ethnic communities are located too far away from a specific province (via a trade-diversion effect …