The pro-trade effect of the brain drain: Sorting out confounding factors

Gabriel Felbermayr and Benjamin Jung

Munich Reprints in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: We sort out confounding factors in the empirical link between bilateral migration and trade. Using newly available panel data on developing countries’ diaspora to rich OECD nations in a theory-grounded gravity model, we uncover a robust, causal pro-trade effect. Moreover, we do not find evidence in favor of strong differences across education groups.

Date: 2009
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Published in Economics Letters 2 104(2009): pp. 72-75

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