Migrants shape market access: first, they reduce international trade frictions and second, they change the geographical … exports and imports to immigrant population and quantifies these effects in a model of inter- and intra-national trade and … import (export) trade costs by 7% (2.5%) on average and decreases US natives' real wages by more than 2%. States with higher …

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … free trade areas more likely to support full integration than states without free trade? Second, is trade liberalization … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our …

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard … trade liberalization. While the former leads to more dispersion of economic activity across space, the latter tends to drive …