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Migration and Trade
Egger, Peter H. - 2011
Theoretical and empirical research in economics suggests that bilateral migration triggers bilateral trade through a number of channels. This paper assesses the functional form of the impact of migration on trade flows in a quasi-experimental setting. We provide evidence that the relationship is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124393
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Migration and Trade
Egger, Peter; Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Nelson, Douglas R. - CESifo - 2011
Theoretical and empirical research in economics suggests that bilateral migration triggers bilateral trade through a number of channels. This paper assesses the functional form of the impact of migration on trade flows in a quasi-experimental setting. We provide evidence that the relationship is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024841
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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Kerr, William - 2019
estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from … advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902445
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Effects of the Endogenous Scope of Preferentialism on International Goods Trade
Egger, Peter H. - 2013
Previous empirical research has assumed that goods trade responds to goods trade preferentialism only, while other forms of preferentialism – such as services trade or investment preferentialism – are irrelevant for goods trade. This paper provides novel evidence for the gains from a broader...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082621
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Effects of the Endogenous Scope of Preferentialism on International Goods Trade
Egger, Peter; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2013
Previous empirical research has assumed that goods trade responds to goods trade preferentialism only, while other forms of preferentialism – such as services trade or investment preferentialism – are irrelevant for goods trade. This paper provides novel evidence for the gains from a broader...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877855
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Intra- and Inter-Industry Productivity Spillovers in OECD Manufacturing: A Spatial Econometric Perspective
Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - CESifo - 2008
We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R&D spillovers as well as remainder,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406424
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Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations
Bahar, Dany - 2016
is that migration, and particularly skilled immigration, is a strong and robust driver of productive knowledge diffusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996458
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The Pungent Smell of 'Red Herrings' : Subsoil Assets, Rents, Volatility and the Resource Curse
van der Ploeg, Rick; Poelhekke, Steven - 2021
corrects for endogeneity of resource exports and allows resource abundance affect growth. Their results show that resource … exports are no longer significant while the value of subsoil assets has a significant positive effect on growth. But the World … restrictions and misspecification error. Correcting for these issues and instrumenting resource exports with values of proven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316217
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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital : A Model of Economic Decline of the West
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous low-skilled workers do not finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133620
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What Drives Immigration Amnesties?
Casarico, Alessandra - 2012
We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in … the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098338