Migration and Comparative Advantages: new evidence on the EU-MENA Region
| Autor: | Erol Taymaz, Stefano Iandolo, Anna Maria Ferragina |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Exploit Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration International economics Product (business) Work (electrical) Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Economics 050207 economics Productivity Comparative advantage 050205 econometrics media_common |
| Popis: | PurposeThis study aims to consider how migrants may act as channel of diffusion of knowledge which contributes to the dynamics of trade and comparative advantages of EU and MENA countries for the period 1990–2015.Design/methodology/approachAdopting an IV approach and a gravity framework to instrument for migration, the authors document how variations in stocks of migrants coming from (in) countries that are already competitive exporters of a given product impact on the probability that the destination (home) country starts to export competitively new products or succeed in exporting more intensively.FindingsControlling for potential confounding factors which can be correlated to knowledge flows and productivity shifts, the authors find trade-promoting effects via migration flows (mostly immigration) between the two areas, testing our hypotheses by different technology classes of products and different specifications.Originality/valueThe contribution of this work to the literature is threefold. First, by providing evidence on international knowledge diffusion induced by migration flows between MENA and EU regions, like no other work before, the authors document the effects of migration on trade and comparative advantages. Second, unlike standard literature on migration-trade link, the authors focus more on long-term structural changes in comparative advantages than on trade volumes. Third, we exploit how the effect of migration on margins of trade varies according to different types of goods, classified by technological level. |
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