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analyse the interaction of emigration and immigration with foreign direct investment, exports and imports, and international … remittances. The sample comprises 112 countries with which Spain has closely interconnected migratory, commercial and investment …-2016. The results show that a greater number of immigrants in Spain boost foreign direct investment (FDI), remittances sent and …
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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 …
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growth. Except for the use of exports to measure trade openness, using openness index and imports to proxy for trade openness …, more openness, exports and imports lead to increased economic growth. This implies that a significant proportion of … economic growth in Uganda has been due to short-run increase in the country's openness, more exports and imports. This paper …
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This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage …
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Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to … quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel … estimates connecting country-industry productivity and exports, and the study exploits heterogeneous technology diffusion from …
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create barriers to intra-national trade, but can make international trade relatively more attractive. Imports as substitutes … consider the implications of government decentralization for intra-national and international trade. Decentralization can … to inbound foreign direct investment suggest a stronger positive effect of decentralization on imports relative to …
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empirical literature on whether Chinese exports displace those originated from elsewhere in various destination markets. In this … paper we focus on the growth of China's exports to the East African Community (EAC) countries and show how it has affected … exports from the European Union (EU) to the EAC. Our main contribution to the literature on the displacement effect of Chinese …
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intra-EU trade. Next, we analyze the effect of EU harmonization of technical regulations on domestic and intra-EU trade. We … more intra-EU trade but, apparently, did not affect the so called border effect. …
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The literature has paid very little attention to a potential positive endogenous nexus between trade globalization and … the gravity trade theory, using data from a sample of 134 IMF countries over the pe- riod 1974-1998. An extensive search … shows that trade globalization dampens political liberalization, though political liberalization fosters trade globalization …
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Egypt's industries heavily rely on imported goods for production. Thus, an increase in imports could have a potentially … backward linkages in global value chains (GVCs) could also mean that increasing imports substitute for domestic production and … thus, lost employment opportunities. This paper evaluates the relationship between regional trade agreements using a …
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