Bridging Trade Theory and Labour Econometrics: The Effects of International Migration*

Gaston, Noel; Nelson, Doug

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6419.2011.00696.x

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“…() conduct a meta‐analysis. Gaston and Nelson () summarize the hitherto findings: “There is strong and consistent support for immigration having a positive effect on trade. […] However, because these analyses are never carried out in the context of a structural analysis that permits an evaluation of the relative price effects that drive the general equilibrium analysis standard in the trade theoretic accounts, these results neither permit comparison with the trade theoretic claims, nor do they speak directly (or unambiguously) to the issues of whether trade and migration are substitutes or complements.”…”

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Trading Goods or Human Capital: The Gains and Losses from Economic Integration

Burzyński

2018

Scandinavian J Economics

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In this paper, I quantify the economic consequences of liberalizing migration in the OECD and compare them with those of a hypothetical liberalization of trade across the OECD. First, I investigate the bilateral migration and trade agreements between the EU and Australia, Canada, Japan, Turkey, and the US. Second, I show that the overall impact of reducing all legal restrictions on migration in the OECD is moderate (1.6 percent in real GDP), while the gains from removing tariff and non‐tariff barriers to trade among all of the OECD economies are slightly lower (1.1 percent in real GDP). Finally, both the theoretical and numerical findings suggest that the direction of relationships between trade and migration (either substitutability or complementarity) depends on the type of shock imposed in the system.

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“…Genc et al (2012) conduct a meta-analysis. Gaston and Nelson (2013) summarize the hitherto findings: "There is strong and consistent support for immigration having a positive effect on trade.…”

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Trading Goods or Human Capital: The Gains and Losses from Economic Integration

Burzyński

2018

Scandinavian J Economics

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“…17 As in most of the empirical literature, we use the language of immigrant flows (because that matches the theory used to interpret the results), but it should be understood that the variable in question is invariably a stock. 18 References to the large number of papers here can be found in White and Tadesse (2011, Chapter 2) or Gaston and Nelson (2013). (Hatzigeorgiou 2010;Parsons 2011;Tadesse and White 2011).…”

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Complexity and Geographical Economics

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Kubin³

2015

Dynamic Modeling and Econometrics in Economics and Finance

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“…van de and Voitchovsky (2015) provide a review of the Australian skilled immigrant selection program. For a review of the literature, see (Kerr and Kerr 2011) and (Gaston and Nelson 2013 (Hou and Bonikowska 2015) have data for the visa status of prefilers, they are able to evaluate differences in the earnings for prior work experience only, prior work and study experience, prior study experience, and prior other experience. They find that, compared to non-prefilers, prefilers with Canadian work permits had significantly higher earnings, with the largest advantage for prefilers with skilled employment.…”

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Prior host-country work experience and immigrant labor market outcomes: evidence from Canada

Pandey

Townsend

2017

IZA J Migration

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Recent changes to immigration selection policies favor skilled workers with prior work experience in the immigrant host country. Using unique administrative tax data for Canada, we estimate earnings equations to quantify the difference in earnings of immigrants with prior Canadian experience (prefilers) and those without prior experience (non-prefilers). We find that, relative to non-prefilers, entry earnings are higher for prefilers and, for male immigrants, this earnings advantage persists for at least 20 years after arrival. We show that the primary source of the higher entry earnings of prefilers is a higher return to foreign experience. In addition, the prefiler earnings advantage is largest for university graduates and the return to foreign experience is higher for prefilers from Western countries than those from the rest of the world. Our findings suggest that a move towards an immigrant selection system which uses previous host-country work experience as a criterion will improve the labor market performance of immigrants. JEL Classification: J61, J31

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Bridging Trade Theory and Labour Econometrics: The Effects of International Migration*

Abstract: This paper surveys current theoretical and empirical research on international migration with a particular emphasis on the links between trade theory and labour empirics.

Cited by 31 publications

References 328 publications

Trading Goods or Human Capital: The Gains and Losses from Economic Integration

Trading Goods or Human Capital: The Gains and Losses from Economic Integration

Complexity and Geographical Economics

Prior host-country work experience and immigrant labor market outcomes: evidence from Canada

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