distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … on trade. The migrant elasticity of imports is larger than that of exports in about half the countries considered, but … that immigration complements rather than substitutes for trade flows between host and origin countries. Correcting for …

This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL … with other independent welfare measures to an extended gravity model of immigration for 16 OECD destination countries from … 1991 to 2000 suggests an insignificant role for QOL in the immigration process. The panel results suggest that other …

Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given … potentially serious omitted-variables bias, questioning the validity of existing estimates of the effects of trade and immigration … on income. This paper provides estimates of the effects of trade and immigration on income in a unified framework. We …

We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import competition implies a …-born 25-39 years old, implying that exit from work is a primary means of adjustment to trade-induced contractions in labor …

This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the … imports and two-way trading for firm survival in a highly developed country. Descriptive statistics and regression analysis …

activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from …This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade … statistically significant and economically large effects of trade activities on profits. This demonstrates that any productivity …

trade and wages across types of products. In particular, firms that increase their exports (imports) of high- (intermediate …The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which … are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a …

instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by other high-income countries. Rising imports cause higher … more trade-exposed labor markets …

both imports and exports, and iii) examine the impact of imports according to the country of origin. Looking at the export …In the last decades, international trade has increased between industrialised countries and between high- and low …-wage countries. This important change has raised questions on how international trade affects the labour market. In this spirit, this …