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Essays In International Economics: The Trade-Creation Effect Of Migration, Miguel Cardoso
Essays In International Economics: The Trade-Creation Effect Of Migration, Miguel Cardoso
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My thesis consists of three chapters relating to topics in International Economics. My first two chapters study the effects of migration flows on the economic outcomes of stayers for both receiving and sending countries. In both these chapters I develop and calibrate two distinct general equilibrium (GE) models to study the quantitative effect of migration on the real income of workers. The third chapter empirically investigates the relationship between firm export behaviour and their composition of foreign-born workers.
In my first chapter I develop a multi-country GE model where consumers choose where to reside, facing a trade-off between potentially earning …