International migration is an important determinant of institutions, not considered so far in the empirical growth literature. Using cross-section and panel analysis for a large sample of developing countries, we find that openness to emigration (as measured by the general emigration rate) has a...

We investigate the impact of Canada-U.S. trade integration on the degree of industrial specialization of the Canadian regions. Trade integration is captured through the decrease of trade-weighted tariffs that were boosted by the implementation of the Canadian-U.S. Free Trade Agreement. We found...