Featuring
Pierre-Louis Vezina
Research Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Oxford
Hosted by
Matt Collin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Global Development
In the UK, the heated public debate over immigration does not always take account of all the evidence of the effects of migration on receiving countries. In this CGD Europe research seminar, Pierre-Louis Vezina discusses his recent research paper "Migrant Networks and Trade: The Vietnamese Boat People as a Natural Experiment", written with fellow Oxford scholar Chris Parsons, on the effects of large scale immigration on a destination country's trade. Pierre-Louis's work takes advantage of a unique natural experiment: the flight of thousands of Vietnamese refugees following the end of Vietnam war, their subsequent resettlement across the US and the knock-on effects on Vietnamese-American trade decades later.
*The CGD Europe Research Seminars are a series that brings some of the world's leading development scholars to discuss their new research and ideas. The presentations aim to meet an academic standard of quality and are at times technical, and retain a focus on a mixed audience of researchers and policy-makers.
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