How Do Immigrants Promote Exports?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca
• 署名单位: Universite PSL; Universite Paris-Dauphine; Universite PSL; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut; Paris School of Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3878
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103443
• 发表日期: 2025
• 关键词: immigration; international trade; Birthplace diversity; PRODUCTIVITY

摘要

How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose an empirical framework allowing to disentangle the role of migration networks that operate at a bilateral level from that of productivity channels (knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity) that operate at the aggregate level. We find evidence supporting both, at the extensive as well as at the intensive margin. The results are robust to using various IV strategies. While richer countries' exports tend to benefit more from immigrants' diversity (especially in sectors characterized by complex production processes), developing countries benefit from knowledge diffusion more.