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 …

foreign direct investment (FDI) affects firm productivity, when productivity is endogeneous as a function of training. The … main result of our paper is that, with endogeneous productivity, exporting results in lower productivity than does FDI, but … exporting may result in higher or lower employment and output than does FDI. We also show that FDI has lower employment, higher …

foreign direct investment (FDI) affects firm productivity, when productivity is endogeneous as a function of training. The … main result of our paper is that, with endogeneous productivity, exporting results in lower productivity than does FDI, but … exporting may result in higher or lower employment and output than does FDI. We also show that FDI has lower employment, higher …

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 …

Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business … networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral … on trade, and especially on exports. Those immigrants should be the ones directly involved in the diffusion and …

excluding bilateral trade possibly generated by network effects, as well as to instrumenting for migration using a gravity model. … focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion requires direct human interaction implies that the international … diffusion of knowledge should follow the pattern of international migration. This is what this paper documents. Our main finding …

excluding bilateral trade possibly generated by network effects, as well as to instrumenting for migration using a gravity model. … focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion requires direct human interaction implies that the international … diffusion of knowledge should follow the pattern of international migration. This is what this paper documents. Our main finding …

productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence … supporting all three channels (at both the intensive and the extensive margins of trade), our framework allows to gauge their …

elasticity of exports to return migration between 0.08 to 0.24. Our results are stronger in knowledge-intensive industries and …

. We find that the elasticity of exports to return migration is between 0.1 to 0.24 in industries where migrants were …