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Skilled emigration, business networks and foreign direct investment

Skilled emigration, business networks and foreign direct investment
Skilled emigration, business networks and foreign direct investment
In a global context foreign direct investment (FDI) and migration substitute one another in the matching process between workers and firms. However, as labor flows can lead to the formation of business networks, migration can actually facilitate FDI in the long-run. We first present a stylized model for a small open economy illustrating these offsetting effects. We then use U.S. data on bilateral labor inflows and capital outflows to measure the extent of contemporaneous substitutability and dynamic complementarity between migration and FDI. We find that brain drain and FDI inflows are negatively correlated contemporaneously but that skilled migration is associated with future increases in FDI inflows. We also find suggestive evidence of substitutability between current migration and FDI for migrants with secondary education, and of complementarity between past migration and FDI for unskilled migrants.
brain drain, foreign direct investment inflows, migrant ties and business networks
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University of Southampton
Kugler, Maurice
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Rapoport, Hillel
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Kugler, Maurice
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Rapoport, Hillel
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Kugler, Maurice and Rapoport, Hillel (2005) Skilled emigration, business networks and foreign direct investment (Discussion Papers in Economics and Econometrics, 503) Southampton. University of Southampton

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Abstract

In a global context foreign direct investment (FDI) and migration substitute one another in the matching process between workers and firms. However, as labor flows can lead to the formation of business networks, migration can actually facilitate FDI in the long-run. We first present a stylized model for a small open economy illustrating these offsetting effects. We then use U.S. data on bilateral labor inflows and capital outflows to measure the extent of contemporaneous substitutability and dynamic complementarity between migration and FDI. We find that brain drain and FDI inflows are negatively correlated contemporaneously but that skilled migration is associated with future increases in FDI inflows. We also find suggestive evidence of substitutability between current migration and FDI for migrants with secondary education, and of complementarity between past migration and FDI for unskilled migrants.

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Published date: 2005
Keywords: brain drain, foreign direct investment inflows, migrant ties and business networks

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Local EPrints ID: 34791
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/34791
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Date deposited: 16 May 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:49

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Author: Maurice Kugler
Author: Hillel Rapoport

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