Visa restrictions and economic exchange : an empirical investigation
This paper examines the effect of visa restrictions on economic exchange and migration flows. Previous studies have not addressed the endogeneity bias of visa restrictions as a result of reverse causality and omitted variable bias. We deal with the endogeneity bias by instrumenting visa restri...
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| 格式: | Final Year Project |
| 語言: | English |
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2017
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| 在線閱讀: | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/70337 |
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| 機構: | Nanyang Technological University |
| 語言: | English |
| 總結: | This paper examines the effect of visa restrictions on economic exchange and migration flows.
Previous studies have not addressed the endogeneity bias of visa restrictions as a result of reverse
causality and omitted variable bias. We deal with the endogeneity bias by instrumenting visa
restrictions using their somatic/genetic distance and religious/linguistic similarity. To do this, we
construct a novel dataset of visa restrictions covering 38,399 dyads for nearly 200 countries. Our
results show that visa restrictions have a small but significant negative effect on FDI. For exports
and migration flows, we are unable to establish causality as the instruments violate the exclusion
restrictions. Our research suggests that restrictive border policies can have detrimental effects on
economic outcomes. |
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