2013/19 | LEM Working Paper Series | ||||||||||||||||
Migration and Trade: A Complex-Network Approach |
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Giorgio Fagiolo, Marina Mastrorillo |
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Keywords | |||||||||||||||||
International migration, International trade, Complex networks, Gravity model
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F10, F22
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Abstract | |||||||||||||||||
This paper explores the relationships between migration and trade
using a complex-network approach. We show that: (i) both weighted and
binary versions of the networks of international migration and trade
are strongly correlated; (ii) such correlations can be mostly
explained by country economic/demographic size and geographical
distance; (iii) pairs of countries that are more central in the
international-migration network trade more.
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