The link between immigration and trade: Evidence from the United Kingdom
The link between immigration and trade: Evidence from the United Kingdom
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移民与贸易之间的联系：来自英国的证据
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2002
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通讯作者：
Zhihao Yu
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S. Girma;Zhihao Yu
移民和贸易：来自英国的证据。- 本文利用英国最近的数据研究了移民和贸易之间的联系。来自非英联邦国家的移民被证明具有显著的出口促进效应。相比之下，来自英联邦国家的移民对出口没有实质性影响。我们推测，这可能是因为来自英国前殖民地的移民没有带来任何新的信息，可以帮助大幅降低母国和东道国之间的交易成本。这项研究还表明，来自非英联邦国家的移民具有有利于进口的影响，而来自英联邦国家的移民似乎减少了进口，这也许反映了移民的贸易替代活动。
Immigration and Trade: Evidence from the United Kingdom. — This paper investigates the link between immigration and trade using recent UK data. Immigration from non-Commonwealth countries is shown to have a significant export-enhancing effect. By contrast, immigration from Commonwealth countries is found to have no substantial impact on exports. We conjecture that this could be because immigrants from the UK’s former colonies do not bring with them any new information that can help substantially reduce the transaction cost of trade between their home countries and the host nation. The study also reveals a pro-imports effect of immigration from the non-Commonwealth countries, whereas immigration from the Commonwealth appears to be reducing imports, perhaps reflecting trade-substituting activities by immigrants.