International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper … of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity …

of migration flows across Italian regions from 1970 to 2002. The empirical analysis is based on an accurate study of the … inversely related with net regional migration rate, while per capita GDP is strongly positively linked with it. As far as the … accommodating potential of internal migration to regional unbalances, we have detected very little room for such a role. Indeed, the …

low skilled individuals. In terms of employment and earnings, coefficients are in general negative but non …

continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … industries over the period 2000-2007 and find evidence in favor of a positive productivity effect such that immigration has a …

In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and … ; Migration ; Technology transfer ; Brain gain ; Diaspora …

In view of the scarcity of reliable and detailed data on migration this paper develops the novel cohort approach, which … allows us to deduce from annual Labour Force Surveys (LFS) the extent and skill composition of net migration. It is based on … and skill composition of net migration. As concerns skill composition, the analysis differentiates between four …

the jobs they currently held. This U-shaped pattern of occupational trajectories is familiar in the migration literature …

The Venezuelan migration to Peru has been growing at fast speed since 2016 reaching a peak in 2018. Using a panel that … migrants in terms of employment, informality and earnings of Peruvian workers during 2008-2018. We find that a 1 pp increase in … workers with tertiary education in the non-service sector; and c) a 3.2 percent decrease in real monthly earnings for workers …