This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To … predictors of openness to immigration and to trade for each country by using information on bilateral geographical and cultural … to immigration on long-run income per capita. In contrast, we are unable to establish an effect of trade openness on …

This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in …

How much does a nation spend on resources to 'grease the wheels of trade'? To examine this question the Dutch economy … seventeenth century from successes in long distance trade, shipping and financial innovations. Despite its historical background … remain important, suggesting that face-to-face trade remains an important element of modern transactions. In contrast to the …

to transfer EU values and rules to the neighboring countries - deep(er) economic (in particular, trade) integration … objective of the paper is to study the geography (i.e. the size, the composition and the direction) of EU-ENP trade, conducting … an in-depth empirical analysis as regards the trade flows (i.e. imports and exports) of the EU and the ENP countries. The …

This paper discusses the latest thinking in the relationships between the economics of trade, geography and industrial …, much of the current thinking on the relationships between geography, trade and clusters implies that New Zealand's long …

Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given … that several factors are important determinants of both trade and migration flows, the previous studies are vulnerable to a … potentially serious omitted-variables bias, questioning the validity of existing estimates of the effects of trade and immigration …

Reinhart and Rogoff (2004), on bilateral trade. The results indicate that, while participation in a common currency union is … uncertainty and transactions costs associated with international trade between countries are significantly more pro-trade than the … and transactions costs tend to outweigh the trade-diverting substitution effects. In addition, there is evidence that …

This paper examines the theoretical underpinning of contemporary trade policies through a social economics lens. The … construction of trade policies which are more likely to have a beneficial impact on the welfare of communities and to foster the … welfare of the community and the income-generating possibilities of trade. And it serves as a superior guide to policymaking …