The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Migration and Trade

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Immigrants’ Networks, Distance, and Trade Creation Effects: An Study Employing Province-Level Data for Italy, Spain and Portugal

      • Andrés Artal-Tur, Vicente Pallardó-López, Francisco Requena-Silvente

      Pages 3-18

   3. The Aggregate Effects of Trade and Migration: Evidence from OECD Countries

      • Francesc Ortega, Giovanni Peri

      Pages 19-51

   4. Analyzing the Immigration-Induced Changes in Product Diversity and Trade Patterns: The Case of the EU-Mediterranean-Eastern Europe Zone

      • Selim Çağatay, Süleyman Değirmen, Murat Genç, Onur A. Koska, Bernd Lucke, Perihan Ö. Saygın

      Pages 53-86

3. Causes and Consequences of Migrants’ Remittances

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. The Role of Remittances for Economic Growth: Evidence for Turkey

      • Şule Akkoyunlu, Boriss Siliverstovs

      Pages 89-96

   3. The Determinants of Migrants’ Remittance Inflows in the MENA Region: A Macroeconomic Approach

      • Andrés Artal-Tur, Jordi Bacaria-Colom, Selim Çagatay, Vicente Pallardó-López

      Pages 97-120

4. Macroeconomic Effects of Migration Flows

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Brain Drain and Economic Performance in Small Island Developing States

      • David de la Croix, Frédéric Docquier, Maurice Schiff

      Pages 123-144

   3. A Dynamic Input–Output Scheme for the Estimation of Labour Migration Impact on GDP and Employment in Receiving Countries with an Application for Spain

      • Rafael de Arce, Ramón Mahía

      Pages 145-158

5. Migration and the Labour Market

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level: Recent Evidence for Spain

      • Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Miguel Ángel Alcobendas, Raquel Vegas

      Pages 161-181

Though globalisation of the world economy is currently a powerful force, people’s international mobility appears to still be very limited. The goal of this book is to improve our knowledge of the true effects of migration flows. It includes contributions by prominent academic researchers analysing the socio-economic impact of migration in a variety of contexts: interconnection of people and trade flows, causes and consequences of capital remittances, understanding the macroeconomic impact of migration and the labour market effects of people’s flows. The latest analytical methodologies are employed in all chapters, while interesting policy guidelines emerge from the investigations. The style of the volume makes it accessible for both non-experts and advanced readers interested in this hot topic of today’s world.

• Brain Drain
• Econometrics
• Labour Market
• Migration Studies
• Mobility
• Remittances

• Dept. of Economics, Technical University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain

  Andrés Artal-Tur

• Dept. of Economics, University of California at Davis, Davis, USA

  Giovanni Peri

• Dept. of Economics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  Francisco Requena-Silvente

Prof. Andres Artal-Tur gained a PhD in Economics at University of Valencia (Spain), with actual position at Technical University of Cartagena (Spain). His main research interest is on International Economics (international trade, FDI and migration flows), with an extension to Development Economics. He has visited several European, MENA and Latin American universities, publishing research findings on relevant journals and policy-oriented reviews. His current research interest focuses on the impact and opportunities opened by the Arab Spring for the EU-MENA space.

Prof. Giovanni Peri is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is Editor of “Regional Science and Urban Economics” and in the editorial Board of five Academic Journals in Economics. He has done research on Human Capital, Growth and Technological Innovation. More recently he has focused on the impact of international migrations on labor markets, housing markets and productivity. He has published in several academic journals including the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, The Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of European Economic Association. He received several grants for the study of the impact of migrations from the University of California, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, from the World Bank, from the Volkswagen Foundation and from Microsoft Corporation. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from U.C. Berkeley and a Doctoral Degree in Economics from Bocconi University, Milano, Italy.

Prof. Francisco Requena-Silvente graduated from the University of Valencia (Spain) and gained an MSc in Economics at University College London. He completed his PhD at the London School of Economics. Before joining the University of Sheffield as a Reader in Economics, he was Lecturer in Economics at the University of Valencia.His research interests are in applied international trade: testing the performance of the traditional comparative advantage models and of the new trade models; measuring the importance of trade barriers (i.e. the so-called border effect) and evaluating the importance of formal and informal networks to facilitate international trade. His current research agenda focuses on the role of ethnic and business institutions on international and interregional trade. He has published extensively in relevant economic journals.

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