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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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,...

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Does Globalisation Increase Child Labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2021

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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Migration, Trade and Income

Ortega, Francesc - 2013

This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To address endogeneity concerns we extend the instrumental-variables strategy introduced by Frankel and Romer (1999). We build predictors of openness to immigration and to trade...

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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide

Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020

How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? The recent backlash against globalization renders this question extremely topical. Yet, most previous work has looked for political effects of aggregate trade flows without decomposing into particular types of...

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