Migrants and imports: Evidence from Dutch firms
Abstract This paper examines the effect of hiring migrants on firms' imports using a rich employer–employee dataset from the Netherlands for 2010–17. We use an instrumental variables strategy, and find that firms that employ migrants from a high‐income country are more likely to import from that country. Our benchmark specification indicates that a one standard deviation increase in the share of migrant workers from a certain country raises their employer's probability of importing from those workers' origin country by 6.6 percentage points, explaining half of the average probability of import... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Economica ; volume 90, issue 360, page 1204-1228 ; ISSN 0013-0427 1468-0335 |
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Wiley
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Schlagwörter: | Economics and Econometrics |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26690673 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12486 |