Migrant networks and trade: the Vietnamese boat people as a natural experiment

We provide cogent evidence for the causal pro-trade effect of migrants and in doing so establish an important link between migrant networks and long-run economic development. To this end, we exploit a unique event in human history, the exodus of the Vietnamese Boat People to the US. This episode rep...

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Príomhchruthaitheoirí: Parsons, C, Vézina, P
Formáid: Working paper
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: International Migration Institute 2014