International migration and economic integration : understanding the immigrant-trade link / Roger White, Bedassa Tadesse.
Material type: TextPublisher: Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: xi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0857930664
- 9780857930668
- Understanding the immigrant-trade link
- 304.82 23
- JV6217 .W44 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-305) and index.
PART I. Introducing the Immigrant-Trade Link 1. Migration, trade and globalization -- 2. The gravity model and the literature on the immigrant-trade link -- PART II. The Effects of Immigrants on International Trade in Goods and Services -- 3. Immigration policy, economic development and the immigrant-trade link: The case of the White Australia Policy -- 4. East-West migration and trade: The pro-trade effects of immigrants in Italy -- 5. Beyond trade in goods: Immigrants and US exports of tourism services-- PART III. The Cultural Bridging Effects of Immigrants on Trade -- 6. The trade-inhibiting effects of cultural differences: Evidence from nine OECD countries -- 7. Immigrants and the effects of cultural distance: An examination of aggregate US trade data -- 8. Heterogeneity across immigrant groups: The effects of refugee and non-refugee immigrants on US trade -- PART IV. The Operability and Universality of the Immigrant-Trade Link -- 9. The effects of immigrants on trade in cultural and non-cultural goods: Evidence from US state-level exports -- 10. Asymmetric information and trade facilitating infrastructure: Variation in the immigrant-trade link across migration corridors -- 11. Transaction costs and the immigrant-trade link: Does the volume of bilateral trade matter? -- 12 . Are the effects of immigrants (emigrants) on trade universal? -- PART V. Findings, Implications and Questions that Remain -- 13. A summary of findings from the application of the gravity model -- 14. Lessons learned and suggestions for future research -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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