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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?
Ist Teil von
NBER Working Paper Series, 1997-06, p.6059
Ort / Verlag
Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
1997
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Working Paper No. 6059 Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill the gap. It treats the experience of the Atlantic economy between 1870 and 1940 as panel data with almost seven hundred observations. When shorter run business cycles and long swings' are extracted from the panel data, substitutability is soundly rejected. When secular relationships are extracted over longer time periods and across trading partners, once again substitutability is soundly rejected. Finally, the paper explores immigration policy and finds that policy makers never behaved as if they viewed trade and immigration as substitutes.