on trade flows in manufacturing between Italian provinces and more than 200 foreign countries, we assess the causal …

This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …, 1994; Rubin, 1974). I show that the point-identification of the causal impact of migration requires strong behavioral …

positive and significant effect on imports only. -- migration ; trade ; gravity model ; super-diversity ; MAUP ; transplanted …In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very … the past literature. However, using instrumental variables based on migration enclaves, we show that immigrants have a …

excluding bilateral trade possibly generated by network effects, as well as to instrumenting for migration using a gravity model. … focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion requires direct human interaction implies that the international … diffusion of knowledge should follow the pattern of international migration. This is what this paper documents. Our main finding …

elasticity of exports to return migration between 0.08 to 0.24. Our results are stronger in knowledge-intensive industries and …

identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of networks in reducing bilateral …. While we find evidence supporting all three channels (at both the intensive and the extensive margins of trade), our …

Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country … tractable model for international migration which explicitly allows for the time varying and asymmetric dimensions of cultural … in the intensity of bilateral trade in cultural goods. Our empirical framework includes a comprehensive set of high …

. Selection factors and determinants of female migration, as well as the gendered impacts of migrant networks, are also discussed. …While scholars have long studied the economics of migration, increasing waves of international and regional migration … around the world have placed greater focus on the varied impacts of migration in recent years. Critical to this line of …

Immigrants' social networks exert considerable influence over their labor market opportunities and yet the pre …-existing networks of co-nationals, to causally identify the effects of network size and network quality on refugees': occupational …. Blue-collar networks: increase the probability of refugees' working in blue-collar jobs, draw additional workers into more …

goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the … of migration in alleviating information imperfections between home and host countries. We show that the impact of … migration on financial flows is strongest where information problems are more acute (that is, for more informational sensitive …