Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country cultural differences - such as common language, ethnicity, genetic traits or religion - implicitly assume that cultural proximity between two countries is constant over time and...

This paper investigates the trade migration link within a Ricardian model à la Eaton and Kortum (2002) and it quantifies the pro-trade effects of immigrants for 18 manufacturing sectors in a sample of 19 OECD countries. The results are robust across different econometric specifications and they...