This paper examines the hypothesis that a greater stock of migrants and flows of tourists in the United Kingdom from a particular country increases bilateral trade between the United Kingdom and country of origin. The literature and empirical findings show that migrants and tourists can...

We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and foreign-born workers, using a longitudinal survey, viz. the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) running from 1994 to 2001. Our findings are the following. First, for native-born...

This paper investigates the response of full service carriers (FSCs) to theentry of low-cost carriers (LCCs). We develop a model of airline competition, which accommodates various market structures, some ofwhich include low-cost players. Using data on published airfares ofLufthansa, British...