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

investigates the ways in which international student migration relates to trade. Unlike other immigrants, international students …The conventional immigration and trade literature regards immigrants as mediators for informal barriers such as … countries and 172 origin countries between 2000 and 2018, I employ a gravity-type trade model to examine this relationship. I …

This paper explores the relationships between migration and trade using a complex-network approach. We show that: (i …) both weighted and binary versions of the networks of international migration and trade are strongly correlated; (ii) such … are more central in the international-migration network trade more. …

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 …

While the effects of immigrants on aggregate trade flows have been extensively examined, the role of immigrants in … shaping trade in value added (TiVA) remains underexplored. Employing a panel dataset covering 38 Organization for Economic Co … trade sophistication by promoting specialization and upward movement in the value chain, yielding economic benefits for …

We carry out an indirect inference test of two versions of a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of world trade …. One of these, the ‘classical’ model,is well-known as the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model of world trade, in which … countries trade homogeneous products in world markets and produce according to their comparative advantage as determined by …

econometric methodology. Chapter 1 applies an econometric gravity analysis to bilateral trade flows to assess how successful the … European Schengen Agreement has been in boosting international trade. It proposes a new indicator variable to account for the … plurilateral agreement's spatial dimension. Chapter 2 provides a gravity analysis of international migration flows to investigate …

the institutional environment on international trade. Additionally, we address the heterogeneous effect of trade … institutional quality of trade agreements leads to an increase in both the intensive and the extensive margins of trade. The … institutional quality of trade agreements exerts a differential effect on regional exports at different locations within a country …

Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country … tractable model for international migration which explicitly allows for the time varying and asymmetric dimensions of cultural … in the intensity of bilateral trade in cultural goods. Our empirical framework includes a comprehensive set of high …

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