relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2691/
title: The relation between global migration and trade networks
creator: Sgrignoli, Paolo
creator: Metulini, Rodolfo
creator: Schiavo, Stefano
creator: Riccaboni, Massimo
subject: H Social Sciences (General)
subject: HB Economic Theory
subject: JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration
description: In this paper we develop a methodology to analyze and compare multiple global networks, focusing our analysis on the relation between human migration and trade. First, we identify the subset of products for which the presence of a community of migrants significantly increases trade intensity, where to assure comparability across networks we apply a hypergeometric filter that lets us identify those links which intensity is significantly higher than expected. Next, proposing a new way to define country neighbors based on the most intense links in the trade network, we use spatial econometrics techniques to measure the effect of migration on international trade, while controlling for network interdependences. Overall, we find that migration significantly boosts trade across countries and we are able to identify product categories for which this effect is particularly strong.
publisher: Elsevier
date: 2015-01
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
rights: cc_by_nc
identifier: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2691/1/1310.3716v2.pdf
identifier:   Sgrignoli, Paolo and Metulini, Rodolfo and Schiavo, Stefano and Riccaboni, Massimo  The relation between global migration and trade networks.  Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 417 (1).  pp. 245-260.  ISSN 0378-4371      (2015)  
relation: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037843711400795X
relation: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.09.037