A comparative analysis of African and Asian migrants' effect on trade

摘要

The trade creation effect of migrants is among the topics of interest of contemporary development economists. Using a 10-year interval comprehensive dataset of 136 countries for the period 1970-2000, this paper reveals African migrants promote homogeneous product exports, while Asians promote the export of manufactured and differentiated products. Unsurprisingly, however, both African and Asian migrants have a positive and significant impact on imports from the migrants' destination countries.