We investigate the consequences of redistribution policy on migration and trade in a Standard two-good Heckscher …-Ohlin framework. With free trade and factor price equalization, abolishing migration barriers is redundant. With the introduction of … rieh country to stop short of a relaxation of migration barriers. Rather, a pure free trade regime without migration proves …

-country trade. Both of these sources develop from the New Economic Geography models, while the engine of the growth process is … to divergence between the two countries. Trade in the manufactured good increases the difference between the two … countries further. In its focus on both migration of highly skilled labour and its conclusion of divergence, the model captures …

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our … analysis is the recognition that for free trade, migration, or trade and migration to be adopted, the relevant policy must pass …

The recent enlargement of the European Union [EU] has enhanced interest in the causes and consequences of migration … into the UK and the consequences for these countries' trade with the UK. Using a panel of data covering selected CEE … transition countries on trade flows with the UK. We pay attention to a number of issues that have been raised within the …

there is evidence of positive linkages between immigration and trade volumes. We specifically examine the impact of the … presence of immigrants from some CEEC in the UK on bilateral trade flows. An augmented gravity model is estimated using a panel …

migration as a tool for increasing trade. We attempt to put this position to empirical scrutiny. Our results demonstrate that … migration to facilitate trade may only be effective with respect to exports. This paper also contributes to the literature on … trade and migration by exploiting data on gender and age, which allow us to draw inferences on the underlying impact …

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 …

analysis. In traditional migration theories, especially in human capital models, the decision to migrate is based upon … comparison of expected future incomes in the sending and the receiving countries adjusted for the cost of migration. By contrast …, the new economics of labour migration suggests that the migration decision is made jointly by the migrant and his family …

economic cooperation, is found. By including the trade variable in the empirical migration function we investigate whether … trade and migration are complements or substitutes: a question on which the theoretical literature does not provide a …This study develops a time series model of Turkish migration to Germany for the period 1963-2004 using the …