Migrants’ Influence on Firm-level Exports

Andreas Hatzigeorgiou () and Magnus Lodefalk
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Andreas Hatzigeorgiou: The Ratio Institute; Stockholm Chamber of Commerce

Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 2016, vol. 16, issue 4, No 5, 477-497

Abstract: Abstract We examine the role of migrants in trade using a firm-level approach. We exploit a new employer–employee panel for Sweden, which encompasses close to 600,000 full-time employees, approximately 12,000 firms and data for 176 countries for the period 1998–2007. The resulting analysis provides novel firm-level evidence on the trade-migration relationship. Foreign-born workers have a positive association with firm exports. However, immigrants do not have an unconditional positive impact on firm trade. Mainly small firms gain from hiring foreign-born workers, and migrants need to be skilled and recently arrived to have a clear positive impact on firm export performance.

Keywords: Trade; Migration; Firm-level analysis; Trade costs; Networks; Information; Trust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D F (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/s10842-015-0215-7

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