Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Sayantan Ghosh Dastidar
Author-Name-First: Sayantan
Author-Name-Last: Ghosh Dastidar
Author-Name: Vudayagi Balasubramanyam
Author-Name-First: Vudayagi
Author-Name-Last: Balasubramanyam
Title: Impact of immigrants on the foreign trade of the UK
Abstract: Much of the recent discussion on the impact of immigrants on the host economies relate to the costs they impose on the host country’s public finances and the labour market rather than their contribution to the growth of incomes, technology and trade. This paper analyses the contribution of immigrants into the UK to the exports of the country. The analysis suggests that immigrants  make a significant contribution to the growth of exports of services from the UK. Exports of services account for more than a third of UK’s exports and the immigrants. The statistical analysis suggests that Whilst both the immigrants from the EU contribute to the growth of exports of services from the country the contribution of the immigrants from the Commonwealth is somewhat more than that of the EU immigrants mostly because of the recognised presence of the Commonwealth immigrants in professional and technical occupations  in the services sector.
Creation-Date: 2015
File-URL: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/media/lancaster-university/content-assets/documents/lums/economics/working-papers/LancasterWP2015_009.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Number: 81843151
Classification-JEL: 
Keywords: immigrations, services
Handle: RePEc:lan:wpaper:81843151