International trade and migrant networks: Is It really about qualifications?

Joan Martín-Montaner, Francisco Requena Silvente and Guadalupe Serrano ()

Estudios de Economia, 2014, vol. 41, issue 2 Year 2014, 251-260

Abstract: Personal characteristics of migrants could help to strengthen the impact of migrant networks on bilateral trade. While most of the attention has been focused on immigrants’ educational attainment, this paper focuses on the relevance of the tasks carried out by migrants. Our empirical results confirm that the existence of a large number of foreign-born workers with managerial duties is critical to explain the reduction of transaction costs caused by migrant networks.

Keywords: International trade; migration; networks; gravity equation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.econ.uchile.cl/uploads/publicacion/8dbd ... 6266adfd8c4e1099.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:udc:esteco:v:41:y:2014:i:2:p:251-260

Access Statistics for this article

Estudios de Economia is currently edited by Rómulo Chumacero

More articles in Estudios de Economia from University of Chile, Department of Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Verónica Kunze ().