Benedikt Sebastian Heid

Migration, trade and unemployment

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Date: 07-03-2012

DOI: 10.5018/ECONOMICS-EJOURNAL.JA.2012-4

Abstract: A source of anxiety of policy makers and the public in general is the detrimental impact of trade and immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify the supposed negative effect of immigration on labor markets. This paper aims to identify the effects of immigration alongside trade on unemployment controlling for the high correlation between immigration and goods flows in order to prevent an omitted variable bias. The authors use data from 24 OECD countries over the period from 1997 to 2007 and employ instrumental variables fixed effects and dynamic panel estimators in order to account for unobserved heterogeneity as well as the potential endogeneity of migration flows and the high persistence of unemployment. We find no significant effect of immigration on unemployment on average.

International environmental agreements and imperfect enforcement: Evidence from CITES

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 03-2023

DOI: 10.1016/J.JEEM.2023.102784

Spatial exporters

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 2015

DOI: 10.1016/J.JINTECO.2014.11.006

Macroeconomic potentials of transatlantic free trade: a high resolution perspective for Europe and the world

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

Date: 07-2015

DOI: 10.1093/EPOLIC/EIV009

Gravity with unemployment

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 07-2016

DOI: 10.1016/J.JINTECO.2016.03.008

Income and Democracy: Evidence from System GMM Estimates

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 08-2012

DOI: 10.1016/J.ECONLET.2012.02.009

Is competition from China so special?

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 16-09-2020

DOI: 10.1111/TWEC.12991

The rise of the Maquiladoras: A mixed blessing

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 19-04-2013

DOI: 10.1111/RODE.12030

The international trade effects of bilateral investment treaties

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 11-2020

DOI: 10.1016/J.ECONLET.2020.109569

Genetic distance, cultural differences, and the formation of regional trade agreements

Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Date: 22-03-2022

DOI: 10.1007/S10290-021-00410-9

What drives interdependence of FDI among host countries? The role of geographic proximity and similarity in public debt

Publisher: Elsevier BV

Date: 11-2016

DOI: 10.1016/J.ECONMOD.2016.06.007

Estimating the effects of non-discriminatory trade policies within structural gravity models

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 02-2021

DOI: 10.1111/CAJE.12493

Abstract: We propose a simple method to identify the effects of unilateral and non‐discriminatory trade policies on bilateral trade within a theoretically consistent empirical gravity model. Specifically, we argue that structural gravity estimations should be performed with data that include not only international trade flows but also intra‐national trade flows. The use of intra‐national sales allows identification of the effects of non‐discriminatory trade policies such as most favoured nation tariffs, even in the presence of exporter and importer fixed effects. A byproduct of our approach is that it can be used to recover estimates of the trade elasticity, a key parameter for quantitative trade models. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques in the case of most favoured nation tariffs and “time to export” as representative non‐discriminatory determinants of trade on the importer and on the exporter side, respectively. Our methods can be extended to quantify the impact on trade of any country‐specific characteristics as well as any non‐trade policies.

FDI in Space Revisited: The Role of Spillovers on Foreign Direct Investment within the European Union

Publisher: Wiley

Date: 26-08-2016

DOI: 10.1111/GROW.12173

University Of Bayreuth

Location: Germany

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Ifo Institute For Economic Research

Location: Germany

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Universitat Jaume I

Location: Spain

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University Of Adelaide

Location: Australia

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Trade And Investment In The Face Of Declining International Cooperation

Start Date: 2019

End Date: 2021

Funder: Australian Research Council

Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP190103524

Start Date: 2019

End Date: 12-2022

Amount: $113,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council