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

By Gabriel Felbermayr, B. Jung. 2009

113 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/8c6361753ccd345440b3370cfee1435670896791

Citations in the corpus

• Isolating the Network Effect of Immigrants on Trade (2014, unknown): “Felbermayr and Jung (2009) have argued that highly educated immigrants are those most conducive to trade flows.”