We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD … immigrants on bilateral FDI - provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar … effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential …

approach we find that the strongest migration-related response in private education expenditure are substantially lower … informal payments to public school teachers. This fact is at odds with a positive income effect due to migration. We argue that … our results are likely to be driven by changing preferences towards educational inputs induced by migration. …

premia for applying their native language on the job in addition to those for English, their trade-fostering potential seems …

This paper provides a micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration analyzing how financial constraints … determine migration trends. We build a RUM model in which we explicitly introduce the budget constraint in the migration … decision: individuals cannot afford migrating to a destination for which the migration cost (which depends on the immigration …

Trade preferences provide a potential policy tool for supporting refugee employment in countries of first asylum. Thus … employing a minimum share of Syrian refugees. The use of trade preferences to encourage the labour market integration of … generated substantial export growth and employment. It then discusses the conditions under which trade preferences can prove an …

This article presents a new perspective on the impact of migration and remittances on labour market participation and … education are affected by migration. Based on household survey data from Moldova, our results challenge the assertion that those …

include socioeconomic characteristics of the migrant and other household members, the pattern of migration (destination … migrant’s irregular legal status in the host country, and short migration spells. …

factor flows. Theoretically, labor and capital flows must be substitutes. However, empirical papers find migration and FDI to …This article focuses on an apparent conflict between the standard trade theory and available empirical evidence on … be either substitutes or complements, depending upon the skill content of migration. To reconcile the standard theory …