Empirical Study about the Impact of Immigration on International Trade in Australia.pdf

1、The impact of migration on international trade of commodities is effectively trading factors of production such as labour and capital.With the movement of factors of production, it follows that commodity trade is eased i

2、nternationally.Allowing people to migrate from one country to another always involves the migration of labour which is the movement of factor of production.The conclusion that factor flows are a substitute for commodity-

3、trade can be rested as international immigration is a substitute for international trade.However this conclusion is not explained in the real world so it is not a best solution for guiding a policy guide for trade and im

4、migration.With observation that volume and varieties of East Asian products on Australia market coincided with increasing arrival of East Asian immigrants in Australia.The question of what contribution the immigrant inta

5、ke make to the trade performance of Australia.It is the purpose of the study to explore and answer the relationship between immigration and trade on foreign market information in Australia The objective of this thesis is

6、 to empirically examine the relationship between immigration and trade flows in Australia and the impact of immigration on international trade over the period of 1980-2012 with eleven East Asian countries by employing a

7、revised gravity model that is estimated using cross-section and time series (panel) data with fixed effect model and random effect model.The relationship between these two factors is attributed to immigrant's better know

8、ledge of their home markets, and their preference for some goods produced in their home markets because of cultural or other reasons.Additional factors such as distance travelled by immigrants and language spoken whether

9、 it is the same language spoken in the destination country provide some advantage to trade, facilitating and increasing it once they are in Australia.The thesis successfully distinguishes between the impact of immigrants

10、 on trade and the impact of other influential factors on trade.A strong long run relationship between immigration and export is established, and shows immigrant intake have positive and significant impact on Australia's

11、exports to immigrant home countries with 0.16 percent increase in exports.However,the relation between immigration and imports is not strong with-0.11 percent.Moreover, immigrant intake causes exports which mean that imm

12、igrants facilitate trade by foreign market information while import is not clear.The main policy implication of these findings is that Australia can us immigration as a long term strategy to promote exports to Asian coun