The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and …

Migrants shape market access: first, they reduce international trade frictions and second, they change the geographical … exports and imports to immigrant population and quantifies these effects in a model of inter- and intra-national trade and … migration calibrated to US states and foreign countries. Reducing US migrant population shares back to 1980s levels increases …

This note revisits the role of migrant social networks as determinants of bilateral-migration flows. We do so using a … destination, geographical distance counts in explaining the absence of a migration corridor only when such networks have very …

subsequently estimated. This social componentʺ of migration is then tested on international trade, providing a direct measure of … the impact of social networks on the economy. -- Social interaction ; non-market interaction ; international Trade … ; migration …

positive and significant effect on imports only. -- migration ; trade ; gravity model ; super-diversity ; MAUP ; transplanted …In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very … the past literature. However, using instrumental variables based on migration enclaves, we show that immigrants have a …

determine the pattern of international trade. However, individuals' decisions to emigrate depend only on the national … international labor movement promotes international trade. …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very … the past literature. However, using instrumental variables based on migration enclaves, we show that immigrants have a …

on both exports 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). Finally, we give evidence of a substantial heterogeneity in the effects of immigrants: the impact on trade tends to …

determine the pattern of international trade. However, individuals' decisions to emigrate depend only on the national … international labor movement promotes international trade …

on trade flows in manufacturing between Italian provinces and more than 200 foreign countries, we assess the causal …