Abstract
Although there has been a good deal of research investigating the immigration-trade nexus in developed countries, very few studies have been conducted for Africa and its trading partners. This paper employs a panel data on migrant stock and trade flows to investigate the extent to which migration impacts trade on a set of 52 African countries and 116 trading partners. Employing the Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood (PPML) to estimate the Gravity Model on trade, we find that migration (sending and receiving migrants) has a positive and significant impact on all trade components (export, import, and total trade). Like many other studies, our findings show that migration impacts more exports than imports and total trade.