Immigrants and firms’ outcomes: Evidence from France

Mitaritonna, Cristina; Orefice, Gianluca; Peri, Giovanni

doi:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2017.05.001

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“…Hatzigeorgiou and Lodefalk (), in an employer–employee panel for Sweden, show that small firms in particular can gain from hiring foreign‐born workers who are skilled and recently arrived immigrants. Similar evidence of a positive effect of foreign employees on trade is found for Denmark (Hiller, ), France (Marchal & Nedoncelle, ; Mitaritonna, Orefice, & Peri, ), and Germany (Andrews, Schank, & Upward, ), especially for skilled or senior workers.…”

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Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas, and exports

Bratti

Benedictis

Santoni

2019

Journal of Regional Science

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This paper demonstrates the positive effect of immigrant entrepreneurs on manufacturing exports over and above that of diasporas. Using small‐scale regional administrative data, our instrumental variable estimates of export gravity models imply that ceteris paribus, that is, holding constant the total number of immigrants, the expected protrade effect of a migrant becoming an entrepreneur amounts to an average increase of US$5,946 in the export flows toward her country of origin. Besides these dyadic effects, immigrant entrepreneurs unlike nonentrepreneurial immigrants raise a region's overall competitiveness and export flows toward other destinations as well.

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Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas, and exports

Bratti

Benedictis

Santoni

2019

Journal of Regional Science

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“…For France, Mitaritonna et al . () show that immigration tends to increase local productivity. An increase in the immigrant share in a given department has a positive effect on the average wage of natives‐–a 1% rise in the workforce due to immigration increases the wage of natives by 0.50%.…”

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“…() and Mitaritonna et al . () exploit panel data and can control for area fixed effects. Therefore, these studies are subject to less omitted variable bias, which explains why their results contradict those from cross‐sectional studies.…”

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The Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

Edo

2018

Journal of Economic Surveys

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The literature on the impact of immigration on the labor market is highly controversial. The aim of this paper is to review the existing literature and draw some general conclusions on how wages and employment respond to immigration. Economic studies indicate that the impact of immigration on the average wage and employment of native workers is null or slightly positive. However, because adjustments take time, the immediate labor market effects of unexpected (as opposed to expected) migration episodes can be detrimental. Immigration also can have distributional consequences. In particular, the skill composition of immigrants matters in determining their impact on native labor market outcomes. An inflow of immigrants will tend to reduce the wages of competing native workers (with skills similar to those of the migrants), and increase those of complementary workers (with skills that complement those of immigrants). By affecting the skill composition of the workforce, immigration can create winners and losers among native workers via changes in the wage structure.

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“…If a productivity channel is at play, as suggested by Mitaritonna et al. (), the export‐enhancing effect of immigrants should be neither occupation‐ nor destination‐specific.…”

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“…This pro‐trade effect is found to be larger for high‐skilled than for low‐skilled immigrants, which is in line with the idea that high‐skilled individuals are more likely to possess and gainfully apply information that is relevant to exporters. On the other hand, Mitaritonna, Orefice, and Peri () suggest that the complementarity between natives and immigrants can lead to task reallocation and to more efficient technological choices. Hence, immigration increases the total factor productivity of firms and, in turn, increase exports at both margins.…”

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Immigrants, occupations and firm export performance

Marchal

Nedoncelle

2019

Rev International Economics

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This paper investigates the export‐enhancing effect of immigrant workers and how this effect varies across occupations. We use a dataset made of French manufacturing firms from 1997 to 2009 and address the problem of endogenous employment choice using an instrumental variable‐two‐stage least squares (IV‐2SLS) strategy and a doubly robust estimator. Our results show that immigrants in both low‐ and high‐skilled occupations foster exports at both the intensive and the extensive margins. In addition, we show that this effect is spread across all export destinations.

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Immigrants and firms’ outcomes: Evidence from France

Cited by 99 publications

References 45 publications

Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas, and exports

Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas, and exports

The Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market

Immigrants, occupations and firm export performance

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