Immigrant Links to the Home Country: Empirical Implications for U.S. Bilateral Trade Flows

Gould, David M.

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“…24 This approach allows us to compare our estimates to those reported in the existing literature. The second part of proposition 1, however, tells us that the estimated network elasticity should be large for regions with similar provinces (small κ r ) and small for regions with dissimilar provinces (large κ r ).…”

Section: Scale Of Immigration Flowsmentioning

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“…25 We use the square of the historical bilateral 23 Note that this more encompassing model does not allow us to identify the coefficient of the bilateral investment term because data on investment are only available at the regional level. 24 Notice that the full network elasticity includes the effects operating through the multilateral resistance term. In what follows, we assume that these effects are negligibly small when we are referring to the network elasticity.…”

Section: Scale Of Immigration Flowsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We furthermore control for bilateral trading and investment relationships and test for their potential to facilitate bilateral migration. The effects of ethnic communities on trade (Gould, 1994 (Javorcik et al, 2011) are relatively well understood, but the literature on the causal effects of trade and FDI on migration is scarce.…”

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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. Terms of use: Documents in University of Tübingen ANNE STEINBACHER ♯ University of Tübingen May 2012Abstract This paper analyzes the role of ethnic communities in shaping the recent immigration boom to Spain. We find that ethnic communities exerted a strong positive effect on the scale and a strong negative effect on the skill structure of this immigration. Unlike previous studies, we explicitly acknowledge similarities among final migration destinations and thus partly relax the independence of irrelevant alternatives assumption. We strengthen our causal interpretation by controlling for observed and unobserved heterogeneity in bilateral migration costs, and by adopting an instrumental variables approach. Our results suggest that previous estimates of the scale effect are upward-biased by approximately 50%.

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Section: Scale Of Immigration Flowsmentioning

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Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain

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“…Empirical studies on bilateral trade find quite a robust evidence that trade between any two countries increases the larger the stock of immigrants born in one country and living in the other (bilateral-migration effect) [17]. The reason is found in both the emergence of new consumptionpreference patterns and the decrease in transaction costs, due to the better knowledge that migrants have of both home and host country cultural, economic and institutional environments [18]. More generally, however, countries are embedded in a complex web of migration channels [19].…”

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Migration and Trade: A Complex-Network Approach

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Mastrorillo

2013

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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. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may Marina MastrorilloPrinceton University, Princeton (USA) (Dated: September 23, 2013) This paper explores the relationships between migration and trade using a complex-network approach. We show that: (i) both weighted and binary versions of the networks of international migration and trade are strongly correlated; (ii) such correlations can be mostly explained by country economic/demographic size and geographical distance; (iii) pairs of countries that are more central in the international-migration network trade more.

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“…See Gould (1994), Greif (1989), and Rauch and Trindade (2002) for examples of ethnic-based networks as means to alleviate asymmetric information problems and facilitate international trade.…”

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Reputation and Learning: Japanese Car Exports to the United States

Göksel

Dalton

2011

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This paper incorporates learning and reputation building into a simple dynamic stochastic model of international trade with asymmetric information. We use the model to study a bilateral trade flow influenced significantly by learning and reputation, namely U.S. imports of Japanese cars over the period . Numerical simulations replicate the trade flow in a robust fashion. In addition to matching this event, we explore further implications of our framework for understanding international trade patterns. Since learning and reputation building require time, predicted short run trade patterns can be quite different than those predicted in the long run. Sectorial differences in the speed of learning and reputation building affect predicted trade patterns. The extent of asymmetric information existing between importers and exporters also changes under different trade policies.JEL Classification: D82, D83, F10, F14

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Immigrant Links to the Home Country: Empirical Implications for U.S. Bilateral Trade Flows

Cited by 794 publications

References 15 publications

Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain

Networks and Selection in International Migration to Spain

Migration and Trade: A Complex-Network Approach

Reputation and Learning: Japanese Car Exports to the United States

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