Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … advantages, and it establishes a connection of migration to home country exports beyond bilateral networks. … quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel …

This study tests the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The empirical analysis has …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade ows using Italian panel data at the province … latter. The pro-trade effects of immigrants tend to decline in space, and even turn negative when large ethnic communities … are located too far away from a specific province (via a trade-diversion effect). Finally, we give evidence of a …

n this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows. We exploit the very favorable set … and imports, much larger for the latter. The pro-trade effects of immigrants tend to decline in space, and even turn … negative when large ethnic communities are located too far away from a specific province (via a trade-diversion effect …

This manuscript examines the link between trade and migration flows using a gravity model for the period 1995 … country. We find evidence that immigration has a positive influence in bilateral trade. We also introduce economic size and … regional trade agreements (RTA); these proxies confirming a positive impact of bilateral trade. These results show that the …

The migration–trade link has been studied extensively since the mid nineties, finding a positive impact through … immigrants. First we find neither minimum threshold nor exhaustion point in the effectiveness of the immigration networks on … networks: between 70 and 100 foreign-born people of the same nationality. From a socio-economic policy perspective our results …

The migration-trade link has been studied extensively since the mid nineties, finding a positive impact through … the immigration networks on regional exports. …

allowing to disentangle various mechanisms such as the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs as well as … 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 …

identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of networks in reducing bilateral …. While we find evidence supporting all three channels (at both the intensive and the extensive margins of trade), our …