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Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2010
low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141777
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Brain Drain and its Determinants : A Major Issue for Small States
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states' overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324835
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Measuring Skilled Emigration Rates : The Case of Small States
Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2021
Recent changes in information and communication technologies (ICT) have contributed to a dramatic increase in the integration and interdependence of countries, markets and people. This paper focuses on an increasingly important aspect of globalization, the international movement of people, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324838
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Migration, Openness and the Global Preconditions of 'Smart Development'
Tausch, Arno - 2011
world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117617
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The Impact of Immigration on International Trade : A Meta-Analysis
Gen, Murat - 2011
Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on international trade, predominantly from the host country perspective. Because most studies have adopted broadly the same specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117841
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International Trade and Firm Performance : A Survey of Empirical Studies Since 2006
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both future empirical and theoretical work in this area, and public debates and policy makers, in an evidence-based way. The focus is on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121105
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Migration, International Trade and Capital Formation : Cause or Effect?
Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2012
In this paper, we provide an overview of the relationship between international migration and international trade as well as capital movements. After taking a brief historical perspective, we first investigate migration flows between two countries in a static, neoclassical context. We allow for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098128
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Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade
Aleksynska, Mariya - 2012
Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of migrants employed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098826
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Industrialization Under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after Covid-19
Naudé, Wim - 2021
of the medieval world. It comes at a time when innovation had already been stagnating under guild-like corporate … industrial revolution (4IR) to a premature end. Hence the post-COVID-19 world may be left with trade as the only engine for … industrialization for the foreseeable future. If the global community fails to fix the multilateral trade system, the world may start to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315031
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Why are People More Pro-Trade than Pro-Migration?
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2021
I analyze individual attitudes towards trade and immigration in comparative terms. I find that individuals are on average more pro-trade than pro-immigration across several countries. I identify a key source of this difference: the cleavage in trade preferences, absent in immigration attitudes,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316973