DATASET. Interaction of emigration and immigration with foreign direct investment, international trade and remittances

Abstract

Dataset with data to study the interaction of emigration and immigration with foreign direct investment, exports and imports, and international remittances. The sample comprises 112 countries with which Spain has closely interconnected migratory, commercial and investment exchanges, and they focus both on the period prior to the great recession, 1998–2007, and on the subsequent period, 2008–2016. We combined several sources: data on emigration and immigration from the Spanish National Statistics Institute, INE, ("Residential Variations Statistics"); data on Spanish FDI abroad, sourced from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Finance, Datainvex (2018); and data on international trade (exports and imports) from the World Bank and covering the period from 1998 to 2016. Also we use the data on international remittances sent and received from and to Spain in relation with these countries for the period 2010 to 2015, obtained from the World Bank.