@misc{10481/57670,
year = {2019},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10481/57670},
abstract = {The study seeks to analyse the interaction of foreign direct investment, emigration,
and immigration before and after the great economic recession. We used the Linear Mixed Model (LMM) to analyse interaction
of foreign direct in-vestment (FDI), emigration, and immigration for 112 countries
with which Spain has closely interconnected migratory and investment chains, and we focused
on the analy-sis of both the pre-crisis 1998-2007 and post-crisis 2008-2016 periods. The results show that the higher number of immigrants in Spain is related to an
overall higher Spanish FDI flows toward the immigrants’ origin countries. This relation between
migration and FDI might be sustained in the long run as opposed to what was often
raised in classical approaches. In fact, migration and FDI act like two sides of the same coin. Based on our results, we propose more proactive
migration policies that support inte-gration in host countries, migrants’ return to home
countries, and also trade agree-ments as an instrument that endorses selective FDI flow
to more productive and criti-cal sectors in home countries. Moreover, our results show
that lower FDI is usually associated with a higher volume of emigration from Spain. In a sense, FDI and migration may be considered a risk
aversion strategy.},
publisher = {Cracow University of Economics},
keywords = {Emigration},
keywords = {Immigration},
keywords = {Foreign direct investment},
keywords = {Linear mixed model},
title = {The International Movements of Capital and Labour: A Study of Foreign Direct Investment and Migration Flows},
doi = {10.15678/EBER.2019.070308},
author = {Mihi Ramírez, Antonio Luis and Arteaga Ortiz, Jesús and Ojeda González, Sara},
}