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"Effects of Bilateral Trade on Migration Flows: the case of the United States"
Authors: Aguiar, Angel, Terrie Walmsley and Jason Abrevaya


Abstract
The factor price equalization theorem has inspired many theoretical and empirical papers on the relationship between trade and factor mobility.

This paper uses a gravity equation to empirically test the effect of bilateral trade on a subset of international permanent legal migration from 175 countries into the United States. Cross-section and panel estimations are provided as exploratory tools.

The results show that bilateral trade flows do not significantly explain migration flows, while the traditional determinants do.


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Category: 2007 Conference Paper
Status: Published
By/In: Presented at the 10th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Purdue University, USA
Date: 2007
Version: DRAFT
Created: Aguiar, A. (4/15/2007)
Updated: Aguiar, A. (5/26/2007)
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- Labor market issues
- North America


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