proximity in the effectiveness of ethnic networks on bilateral trade. Empirical findings from the gravity model show that the …

This paper analyzes the role of ethnic communities in shaping the recent immigration boom to Spain. We find that ethnic … communities exerted a strong positive effect on the scale and a strong negative effect on the skill structure of this immigration …

We explore the implications of migrants' self-selection for the determination of immigration policy in a simple model … migrants to immigration policy changes, which is crucial for predicting the effects of such policy in the receiving country …. For example, restricting immigration when it is low skilled may worsen self-selection and thus the receiving country skill …

countries, both of which can control their levels of such immigration. Because of complementarities between capital and labor …, the return on capital is positively related to the level of immigration. Consequently, when capital is immobile, host … nations' optimal levels of immigration are positively related to their capital endowments. Further, when capital is mobile …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the link between immigration and trade among EU countries, particularly, in the … on the exports from the EU-15 to those markets or not. To that end the study applies an extended gravity model of … international trade to panel data for three countries – Germany, Denmark and Portugal. The results show that increasing immigration …

This paper develops a political-economic analysis of immigration in a developed country that operates in a direct … median voter maximizes her gains from immigration by accepting more immigrants in total at the end of the second period … immigration in the first period. …