Personal characteristics of migrants could help to strengthen the impact of migrant networks on bilateral trade. While most of the attention has been focused on immigrants' educational attainment, this paper focuses on the relevance of the tasks carried out by migrants. Our empirical results...

This paper provides evidence of the effect of immigration-based networks on German trade. Germany presents a particular interesting case study to examine the effect of ethnic networks on exports due to its high export dependence and its reserved migration policy. According to our results, we...

1. Introduction -- 2. Global Supply-Chain Network -- 3. Japanese Supply-Chain Network -- 4. Traditional Industry in Kyoto -- 5. Resource Flows and Stocks in the Global Economy -- 6. Global Ownership Network -- 7. Japanese Ownership Network -- 8. Global Value Added Network -- 9. Profit Shifting...

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very small geographical units (NUTS-3). Exploiting the very favorable setup offered by Italy's features - the very high number of countries of origin of immigrants ('super-diversity'),...