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Trade and Capital Flows: Substitutes or Complements? An Empirical Investigation
Belke, Ansgar H.; Domnick, Clemens - 2019
This paper examines the linkages between the trade of goods and financial assets. Do both flows behave as complements … macroeconomics, the empirical evidence has remained relatively scarce so far, in particular for the Euro area where trade and … from 2002-2012, to test the so-called trade-finance nexus. Since theoretical models stress that both flows might be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141201
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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital
Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262028
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Offshoring and unemployment: the role of search frictions and labor mobility
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - 2009
In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269045
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Immigrant networks and US bilateral trade: The role of immigrant income
Mundra, Kusum - 2010
This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine … the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country … than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and find that the effect of immigration on trade is a priori …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274654
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Migration and Diversity: Human versus Social Capital
Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822670
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Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Mobility
Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070432
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Immigrant Networks and U.S. Bilateral Trade: The Role of Immigrant Income
Mundra, Kusum - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine … the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country … than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and find that the effect of immigration on trade is a priori …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682952
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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior
Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario; Sala, Davide - 2014
Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333326
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Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports: Evidence from Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo, Diego; … - 2020
-run, general-equilibrium neoclassical trade theory. As in other studies, we find that the export shock was localized both in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207722
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Mending the Gap: Apparel Export Prices and the Gender Wage Gap in Bangladesh
Robertson, Raymond; Kokas, Deeksha; Cardozo Medeiros, Diego - 2022
language of trade theory, are the benefits from exporting industry specific or factor specific? To analyze this question, we … increase in apparel export prices, consistent with trade theory, and that the change estimated with a cross-section IV approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351950