Migration and Trade

Egger, Peter; Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Nelson, Doug

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9701.2011.01429.x

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“…There is, however, no conclusive evidence that remittances unambiguously promote macroeconomic growth (Yang 2011). Others have argued that out-migration does not only lead to higher levels of trade (Egger et al 2012;Fairlie and Lofstrom 2013;Rauch and Trindade 2002) and FDI (Kugler and Rapoport 2011) to developing countries but also contributes to development through "social remittances." "Social remittances are the ideas, behaviours, identities, and social capital that flow from receiving-to sending-country communities" (Levitt 1998: 927).…”

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Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions

2017

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This paper poses and answers a number of critical questions about the relationship between migration and entrepreneurship in the process of economic development. In doing so, we show that the standard policy response to migrants and migrant entrepreneurs are often based on an inadequate understanding of migrant entrepreneurs. The questions we pose are the following: (i) Are immigrants really more entrepreneurial than natives? (ii) Are migrant remittances likely to fund entrepreneurship in their home countries? (iii) Are return migrants more likely to be entrepreneurial than non-migrants? And finally, based on the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super-entrepreneurs and that the (positive) developmental impact of migration is more significant through other channels. Removal of discriminatory barriers against migrants and against migrant entrepreneurs in labour, consumer and financial markets will promote development in both sending and receiving countries, not least through reducing the shares of migrants that are reluctant entrepreneurs. JEL Classification: J60, L26, O15, F22

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“…Based on these empirical findings and on prior theoretical studies that suggest migration triggers a rise in bilateral trade flows through a number of channels, Egger et al (2011) assesses the functional form of the impact of migration on trade flows in a quasi-experimental setting and provides evidence that suggests the relationship between migration and trade is not log-linear. In particular, the authors report that at low immigrant stock levels the elasticity of trade to migration is quite high but that it declines to zero at about 4,000 immigrants.…”

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Do African Immigrants Enhance Their Home Nations’ Trade With Their Hosts?

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White²

2013

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Employing data on the immigrant stocks of 43 African home countries who reside in 110 host countries and on trade flows between these countries during the year 2005, we examine whether African immigrants exert positive effects on their home countries' trade with the typical host country. Estimates from Tobit regression models indicate a one percent increase in the number of African immigrants in a given host country increases that country's exports to and imports from the typical home country by 0.132 percent and 0.259 percent, respectively. Further evaluation of these effects from the perspective of each African home country reveals that, in several instances, immigrants do not exert positive and significant influences on trade flows. The considerable variation in the presence of pro-trade influences and the dissimilarity of estimated significant effects suggests that highly divergent immigration and trade structures among African countries may affect whether African immigrants exert pro-trade influences.JEL Classifications: F14 F15 F22 O11

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“…Beside the obvious impact on country demographic composition, living conditions, cultural and social integration, national security, and socio-economic globalization, migration has strong distributional effects due to internationalremittance flows [12], which can contribute to poverty reduction and economic growth in origin countries [13]. Furthermore, it may unevenly affect labor-market structure, wages and development in destination countries through brain-drain [14,15], and bilateral trade via a decrease in transaction costs and the emergence of new consumption-preference patterns [16,17].…”

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The International-Migration Network

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2012

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. This paper studies international migration from a complex-network perspective. We define the international-migration network (IMN) as the weighted-directed graph where nodes are world countries and links account for the stock of migrants originated in a given country and living in another country at a given point in time. We characterize the binary and weighted architecture of the network and its evolution over time in the period 1960-2000. We find that the IMN is organized around a modular structure characterized by a small-world pattern displaying disassortativity and high clustering, with power-law distributed weighted-network statistics. We also show that a parsimonious gravity model of migration can account for most of observed IMN topological structure. Overall, our results suggest that socio-economic, geographical and political factors are more important than local-network properties in shaping the structure of the IMN. Terms of use: Documents in

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Migration and Trade

Cited by 97 publications

References 77 publications

Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions

Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions

Do African Immigrants Enhance Their Home Nations’ Trade With Their Hosts?

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