migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained chapters which deal with the following topics in empirical international trade and …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …

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 …

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 …

Trade in intermediate goods as one possible link between rising trade and foreign direct investment is examined. To … explain growing intermediate goods trade, three hypotheses are brought forward: outsourcing, global sourcing and the … reason of growing trade in intermediate goods in the cross-section and the time-series framework. The evidence for …

the third as the effect of immigrants on specific bilateral trade costs. We test the predictions of our model using …, implying an important role in reducing communication and trade costs for services. …

This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform …-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004 enlargement. We consider two baseline policy scenarios, with and without accession of … sending countries to the EU. Our results show that migration flows are driven by migration costs and economic conditions, but …

Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … between 1.6 and 2.4 depending upon weighting. This provides an important contribution to the trade literature of Ricardian …

This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing …: are trade and migration substitutes like the policy-makers had assumed or are they complements? Using monthly data from … for illegal migration. The results indicate that increasing trade flows cause larger illegal migration from Mexico to the …