In this paper, we assess the role of skilled versus unskilled migration for bilateral trade using a flexible reduced … treatments. The impact of different levels of skilled and unskilled migration on the volume and structure of bilateral trade is …. We find evidence of a polarized impact of skill-specific migration on trade: highly concentrated skilled or unskilled …

The paper assesses the trade-creating impact of foreign-born residents on the international imports and exports of the … French regions where they are settled. The pro-trade effect of immigrants is investigated along two intertwined dimensions …: the complexity of traded goods and the quality of institutions in partner countries. The trade-enhancing impact of …

on migration decisions, we rely on the concepts of migration networks and herd effects. … roles ‘other people’ play in influencing an individual’s potential migration decision. In analysing the influence of others …

This paper fits a gravity model to the trade of 76 market economies. It then applies the model to data on East European … mutual trade and trade with developing countries, but it will increase trade with industrial counties by factors of three to … thirty. West Germany and the USA are the principal beneficiaries of this new trade, increasing their exports and imports by …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Globalization is not only about the rise of trade, FDI, and migration. It is also about the changing linkages among … these flows. The main findings of this Paper can be summarized as follows. First, at least in the 1990s, import trade … liberalization fostered not only trade but also inward investment, confirming that trade and FDI toward developing countries have …

as new trade theory and new economic geography our cross-sectoral empirical analysis seeks to explain the pattern of …

This paper studies the causal effect of sharing a common native language on international trade. Switzerland is a … for an assessment of the impact of common native (rather than spoken) language as a cultural aspect of language on trade … from within country-pairs. We do so by exploiting the discontinuity in various international bilateral trade outcomes based …