2024年7月2日（周二）13:30-15:00 Yanling Wang （加拿大卡尔顿大学）

讲座系列：前沿专题系列讲座第54场

讲座人：Yanling Wang（加拿大卡尔顿大学诺曼·帕特森国际事务学院（NPSIA）教授）

时间：2024年7月2日（周二）13:30-15:00

地点：博学楼501

主持人：谢红军（对外经贸大学国际经济贸易学院国际贸易学系副教授）

讲座题目：The Effects of Immigrants on Trade Flows: An Canadian Industry-Level Analysis

讲座摘要：We examine the effects of Canadian immigrants on Canada’s import and export flows. Our analysis is conducted at the partner-industry-year level for a period of 32 years from 1988 to 2019, a fast-growing period for both Canada’s trade and immigration. Our findings indicate that immigrants are influential in facilitating import flows from their origin countries to Canada, but no clear relationship of this kind is found for exports. Immigrants from developing countries are the driving force in obtaining the results, given the greater needs for immigrants to reduce information barriers. For manufacturing industries, immigrants promote both export and import flows, but the magnitude for imports is much larger than for exports. Our results indicate that there is heterogeneity in immigrants’ role: economic-class immigrants and immigrants with a post-secondary degree generate large effects on import flows, in addition to the average effects. Immigrants with post-secondary education also have a positive influence on exports from the industry in which they are employed. Our results are robust with counterfactual measures of immigration employment, and persistent with lagged immigration measures.

主讲人简介：

Professor Yanling Wang is Associate Dean, Equity and Inclusion, at the Faculty of Public Affairs, and a full professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs （NPSIA） at Carleton University. She joined the NPSIA faculty in July 2003 as Assistant Professor after obtaining her PhD in Economics at Georgetown University in 2003. Prior to joining Carleton, she worked at the World Bank as a consultant from 2001 to 2003, and as a researcher in the State Economic & Trade Commission, P.R. China from 1995 to 1997. Professor Wang is a trade expert. She has been studying empirical issues related to international trade and foreign direct investment close to 25 years. Her series of work has uncovered how technology embedded in imports could boost productivity in developing countries, examined the effects of FDI on Canadian manufacturing plants, and investigated extensively the effects of FDI in China and Chinese firms’ trade dynamics. She is now focusing on FTAs’ effects on Canadian firms’ trade diversification. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in many academic journals including the Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, Review of International Economics, China Economic Review, Journal of Development Studies, Contemporary Economic Policy, and International Journal of the Economics of Business, among others.

讲座人主页：

https://carleton.ca/npsia/people/yanling-wang/