, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be affected in several ways through migration and capital inflows …. Furthermore, endowment of skilled labour and foreign direct investments (FDI) may reinforce each other through possible … presence of a virtuous (vicious) circle between HC accumulation and FDI inflows. …

migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social … natives. Trade and both migration solutions reduce inequality between the populations of the two countries by the same amount …. In addition, trade and migration are not equivalent if social capital is present: the highest welfare is obtained with …

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 …

This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To … predictors of openness to immigration and to trade for each country by using information on bilateral geographical and cultural … to immigration on long-run income per capita. In contrast, we are unable to establish an effect of trade openness on …

Pareto optimum, labor mobility (social capital) is excessively large (depleted); iii) trade is superior to labor market … integration if trading costs are no higher than private migration costs; otherwise the outcome is ambiguous; and iv) the creation …

This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect the probability of high school graduation … across migration and education decisions as well as within groups of individuals such as the family are explicitly controlled …

of countries. The proliferation of skills around the world, increases in world trade, the growth of R&D, and the general … increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of skills, have all contributed to the emergence of high-skilled migration … as a major issue. High-skilled migration is often discussed in narrow terms of "brain drain/brain gain", when both the …

. This paper explores the extent to which migration-related capital flows can explain the movements and magnitudes of current …