Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas, and exports

Bratti, Massimiliano; Benedictis, Luca De; Santoni, Gianluca

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“…On the level of establishments in Germany, Andrews et al (2017) find a pro-trade effect of foreign workers that is specific for broad geographic regions. On the level of Italian provinces, Bratti et al (2020) find a positive effect of the regional stock of immigrant entrepreneurs, who individually own a small business, on regional manufacturing exports. Using country-level OECD data for the year 2010, Aleksynska and Peri (2014) find a pro-trade effect of immigrants who work in business network occupations and show that business networks are especially trade enhancing between countries with different legal origin and different official language.…”

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Building Bridges: Bilateral Manager Connections and International Trade

Hoch¹,

Rudsinske

2022

Proceedings

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Building Bridges: Bilateral Manager Connections and International Trade

Hoch¹,

Rudsinske

2022

Proceedings

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“…A paper closely related to ours is Giesing and Laurentsyeva (2017) who find negative effects on regional TFP due to labor mobility after the Eastern EU enlargnment of the 2000s. 7 A related literature, beginning with Rauch (1999), shows that links between origin and destination countries may have a causal impact on trade flows (Rauch, 2001;Rauch and Trindade, 2002;Combes et al, 2005;Peri and Requena-Silvente, 2010;Javorcik et al, 2011;Bratti et al, 2018a;Bratti et al, 2018b).…”

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“…The data, which cover the period 2002-2015, come from administrative sources and are aggregated into municipality of origin-country of destination-age group cells. 11 We also obtained emigration flows directly from the registry of Italians residing abroad (AIRE; Anelli and Peri, 2017) that cover more years in the past (from 1990 to 2014) and contain information about country of destination. These two features allow us to construct the networks of emigrants as of 2000.…”

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“…11 It is reasonable to think that these networks are stronger the larger is the size of the community of emigrants in the receiving country. We then interact these shares with the real GDP growth of foreign countries during the period 2008-2015 12 . Summing across destination countries results in a LLM-specific pull factor, which captures the intensity of the economic attractiveness exerted by foreign countries during the 2008-15 period to each specific LLM.…”

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Youth Drain, Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Anelli¹,

Basso²,

Ippedico³

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Migration outflows, especially of young people, may deprive an economy of entrepreneurial energy and innovative ideas. We exploit exogenous changes in emigration from local labour markets in Italy to show that between 2008 and 2015 larger emigration flows reduced firm births. The decline affected firms owned by young people and those in innovative industries. We estimate that for every 1,000 emigrants, 100 fewer firms owned by young people were created over the whole period. A simple accounting exercise shows that about 60 percent of the effect is generated simply by the loss of young people; the remaining 40 percent is due to a combination of the selection of emigrants among highly entrepreneurial people, negative spillovers on the entrepreneurship rate of locals, and a negative local firm multiplier effect.

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Essays on International Trade, Trade Barriers, and Oligopolistic Competition

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Empirical evidence suggests both that market power increased considerably since (e.g. De Loecker et al., 2020 and that firms differ in destination-specific trade barriers (e.g. Munch and Nguyen, 2014). Motivated by these insights, this thesis develops a trade model that allows to analyze the effects of asymmetric policies in general oligopolistic equilibrium, uses this framework to study corporate taxation, tax-motivated transfer pricing and trade policy, and provides evidence that personal characteristics of top managers like nationality and gender can give rise to firm heterogeneity in destination-specific trade barriers.The first chapter develops a trade model with segmented markets that allows to analyze oligopolistic behavior across asymmetric countries. Firms' oligopolistic behavior has macro-level effects when countries are asymmetric. This can induce deviations from the law of one price, which gives rise to terms-of-trade based international shifts in consumption and welfare. Corporate taxation and taxmotivated transfer pricing are incorporated into this model in the second chapter. Without transfer pricing, a higher profit tax rate shifts welfare towards the taxing country. Tax-motivated transfer pricing introduces an additional incentive for all firms to export and, consequently, to expand production, such that real wages rise in both countries. As tax income shifts, consumption is relocated from the high-to the low-tax country. Import tariffs in this setting are studied in the third chapter. Their anti-competitive effect reduces labor demand as firms want to shorten supply. Unilaterally raising the import tariff increases domestic welfare at the foreign country's expense, but also favors profit incomes relative to labor incomes, as real wages fall.The fourth chapter shows a destination-specific pro-trade effect of top managers' nationality. The effect is especially pronounced for institutionally distant destinations, which can be seen as bridging the gap between institutionally dissimilar countries. Likewise, the effect is more pronounced for destinations with less developed institutions, which indicates that manager connections help overcoming trade barriers created by low institutional quality. Finally, the fifth chapter uncovers trade-reducing effects of institutional discrimination against female managers in destination markets. This barrier exists for firm internationalization on the micro and international trade on the macro level. Importantly, it might give rise to disadvantages for female managers even in non-discriminatory countries.

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Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas, and exports

Cited by 12 publications

References 87 publications

Building Bridges: Bilateral Manager Connections and International Trade

Building Bridges: Bilateral Manager Connections and International Trade

Youth Drain, Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Essays on International Trade, Trade Barriers, and Oligopolistic Competition

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