%0 Journal Article
%T Trade and Portuguese Immigration
%A NUNO CARLOS LEIT£¿O
%A MARIUS SURUGIU
%A CAMELIA SURUGIU
%J Revista Romana de Economie
%D 2010
%I Romanian Academy
%X This manuscript examines the link between trade and migration flows using a gravity model for the period 1995-2007 between Portugal and European Union countries. We also include in our sample the Portuguese speaking countries (PALOPS), i.e., ex-colonies. Globalization drives people to migrate, in some countries, immigration being more pronounced las in Portugal, in last decade, this country receiving foreign residents. This is a new reality to Portuguese economy. For many years, the Portuguese have emigrated to European countries, the United States of America and other countries. Currently, Portugal is witnessing a reverse trend, Brazilian, Cape Verde, Ukrainian and Romanian communities choose Portugal as a destination country. We find evidence that immigration has a positive influence in bilateral trade. We also introduce economic size and regional trade agreements (RTA); these proxies confirming a positive impact of bilateral trade. These results show that the gravity model can explain the pattern of bloc¡¯s trade. Our results also confirm the hypothesis that trade increases if the transport decreases. Classification-JEL:F14,F22Keywords:Trade, Immigration, Gravity model; PortugalJournal:Romanian Journal of EconomicsPages:38-48Volume:31Issue:2(40)Year:2010(XX)Month: DecemberFile-URL: http://www.revecon.ro/articles/2010-2/2010-2-2.pdf
%K Trade
%K Immigration
%K Gravity model
%K Portugal
%U http://www.revecon.ro/articles/2010-2/2010-2-2.pdf