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The Impact of Immigration on International Trade: A Meta-Analysis

Genc, Murat; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … that immigration complements rather than substitutes for trade flows between host and origin countries. Correcting for … fully explained by study characteristics; trade restrictions and immigration policies matter for the impact of immigration …

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Search and Offshoring in the Presence of "Animal Spirits"

Mitra, Devashish; Ranjan, Priya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

decreases. Next we allow for offshoring of unskilled jobs in our model, and we find that, as a result, it becomes more likely … that the fair-wage constraint binds. Offshoring of unskilled jobs always leads to an increase in skilled wage, a decrease … adverse impact of offshoring on unskilled unemployment. The unskilled wage can increase or decrease as a result of offshoring. …

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Globalization and Wage Convergence: Mexico and the United States

Gandolfi, Davide; Halliday, Timothy J.; Robertson, Raymond - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Neoclassical trade theory suggests that factor price convergence should follow increased commercial integration. Rising …

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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States

Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an optimal currency area. It is of particular interest currently in the context of high and rising levels of labour market disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there...

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Structural Change in MENA Remittance Flows

Naufal, George S; Genc, Ismail H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

After independence, the GCC countries relied heavily on foreign workers from fellow Arab countries. Thus, remittances flowed from GCC to other countries in MENA. In the 1980s-1990s labor source switched to South Asia; so did the flow of remittances. This paper examines the consequences of the...

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Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade

Aleksynska, Mariya; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Within the migration-trade nexus literature, this paper proposes a more carefully defined measure of migration business networks, and quantifies its impact on bilateral trade. Using cross-sectional data and controlling for the overall bilateral stock of migrants, the share of migrants employed...

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Migration and Diversity: Human versus Social Capital

Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...

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Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade

Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world and might benefit by forming a regional bloc. The study...

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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital

Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...

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The Pro-Trade Effect of Immigration on American Exports During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Dunlevy, James A.; Hutchinson, William K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

looking to history. We show that immigration, primarily from Europe between 1870 and 1910, had an important pro-trade effect …

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