“…21 Access to foreign social networks may be useful for reasons other reasons than primarily fostering exports, such as acquiring skills, improving learning, or improving management (Podolny and Page 1998). 22 Empirically, this is, e.g., in line with Markusen andTrofimenko (2009) andBitzer et al (2014). The latter study explores Danish micro-level data, and concludes that immigrant employees bring-in human capital that promotes firm output.…”