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 …

Personal characteristics of migrants could help to strengthen the impact of migrant networks on bilateral trade. While …

to a change in the composition of the migration stocks over the considered period of crisis …

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 …

through which migrants promote trade. The main finding is that migrant networks are an effective substitute for formal … institutions in facilitating trade. The effect takes place entirely on the extensive margin, suggesting migrant networks may be …

, both of which show that previous estimates of the ethnic-network elasticity of trade are sensitive to the restrictions …

, both of which show that previous estimates of the ethnic-network elasticity of trade are sensitive to the restrictions …