Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 113
Cover Image
Challenged by Migration: Europe’s Options
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the existence of the EU. Against all measures of success, the current public debate seems to suggest that the political consensus that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628042
Cover Image
Labour mobility and interprovincial trade in Canada
Aziz, Nusrate; Mahar, Gerry - 2019
This study estimates the impact of interprovincial and international migration on interprovincial trade using annual data from 1981- 2016 for Canadian provinces. We apply both the gravity and the spatial trade models for estimation using a number of panel estimators. We find that the endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993273
Cover Image
Anti-Migration as a Threat to Internationalization? A Review of the Migration-Internationalization Literature
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018
Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration sentiment could be a threat to internationalization, given that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011939975
Cover Image
International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271915
Cover Image
Trade Networks, Heroin Markets, and the Labor Market Outcomes of Vietnam Veterans
Lonsky, Jakub; Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2021
The role of ethnic immigrant networks in facilitating international trade is a well-established phenomenon in the literature. However, it is less clear whether this relationship extends to illegal trade and unauthorized immigrants. In this paper, we tackle this question by focusing on the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658980
Cover Image
Migration and Canadian Interprovincial Trade
Aziz, Nusrate; Aziz, Ahmed; Mahar, Gerry - 2022
This study estimates international and interprovincial migrants' impact on interprovincial trade using panel data from 1981- 2016 for Canadian provinces. Estimated results show that migration plays a significant role in determining Canadian interprovincial trade. Although the stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411425
Cover Image
On Asymmetric Migration Patterns from Developing Countries
Acharyya, Rajat; Kar, Saibal - 2017
This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between … trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local … wage inequality as influenced by asymmetric emigration patterns. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599081
Cover Image
The long-term effect of migration on economic inequality between EU Member States
Ulceluse, Magdalena - 2019
This paper explores the long-term effect of migration on economic inequality between the 28 EU member states, covering the period 1995-2017. The cross-national, longitudinal analysis demonstrates that migration has had a positive and significant effect on development and economic growth in 28...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012051607
Cover Image
Emigration and development. What are the links?
Murat, Marina - 2021
The ‘mobility transition’ hypothesis – with emigration first increasing and then decreasing as a country develops … grow as low-income countries develop. This paper tests the relationships between development and emigration from 130 … emigration from low to middle-income countries declines as income increases, education improves or population growth slows down …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390743
Cover Image
Ability Drain: Size, Impact, and Comparison with Brain Drain under Alternative Immigration Policies
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
Ability drain's (AD) impact seems economically significant, with 30% of US Nobel laureates since 1906 being immigrants, and immigrants or their children founding 40% of Fortune 500 companies. Nonetheless, while brain drain (BD) and gain (BG) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637949