The Influence of Corruption and Language On the Protrade Effect of Immigrants: Evidence from the American States

Dunlevy, James A.

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“…trade data (rather than provincial data) and a cross-sectional approach (rather than panel). Notice that some of the cross-sectional regressions (Dunlevy 2006;Rauch and Trindale 2002) find elasticities much larger than ours (between 0.2 and 0.4). Most of the estimates, however, are closer to our estimated range (around 0.10).…”

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“…Second, we would like to know if the elasticity of trade-creation to immigrants is roughly constant or if it depends (and how) on the size of the 21 The definition follows Broda and Weinstein (2006) and is specified in section 2. specific immigrant community (non-linear relation) or on the overall density of immigrants in the province or on the period considered. Dunlevy (2006) shows that immigration effect on US exports is less important when Spanish or English is the language of the origin country. Girma and Yu (2002), Dunlevy (2006), and Briant, Combes, and Lafourcade (2009) have noticed that the largest trade-creation effect of immigrants in the UK, US, and France, respectively, tend to be towards those countries whose institutions are less developed and whose cultural and development distance is larger.…”

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“…Dunlevy (2006) shows that immigration effect on US exports is less important when Spanish or English is the language of the origin country. Girma and Yu (2002), Dunlevy (2006), and Briant, Combes, and Lafourcade (2009) have noticed that the largest trade-creation effect of immigrants in the UK, US, and France, respectively, tend to be towards those countries whose institutions are less developed and whose cultural and development distance is larger. These findings push us to inquire into the trade-creation effect of immigrants (for different types of goods and on the two margins), differentiating between world regions.…”

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The Trade Creation Effect of Immigrants: Evidence from the Remarkable Case of Spain

Peri¹,

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There is abundant evidence that immigrant networks are associated with larger exports from the country where they settle to their countries of origin. The direction of causality of this association is less clearly established. Also, we do not know to what extent these increased exports are due to an increase in the number of exporting firms (i.e. the extensive margin of trade) or due to larger values exported by existing firm (i.e. the intensive margin). Using micro data on individual trade transactions from Spanish provinces between 1995 and 2008 and data on the stock of immigrants in those provinces by country of origin we can make progress on both fronts. The richness of our data allows us to control for a large set of fixed effects and to use an instrumental variable strategy to isolate the export creation effect of new immigrants. We are also able to quantify the impact of immigrants on the intensive and extensive margin of trade and how it varies between homogeneous, moderately differentiated and differentiated goods. Our findings can be interpreted, in the light of the Chaney (2008) gravity model, as consistent with the idea that immigrants reduce the fixed costs of trade. As implied by a decrease in fixed trade costs in that model we find that immigrants significantly increase exports (elasticity of 0.10), that the effect is almost entirely due to an increase in the extensive margin and that the effect is somewhat stronger for differentiated goods.

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“…45 The results are presented in Table 3, and include the within-firm-country associations between trade partner-specific investment for exports through the period that experienced first entry into export of services and that also hired their first temporary expat from that country 45 To avoid truncation, we define the response variable as x fjtÀ0 ¼ ln export value þ 1e À7 ð Þ ; This is practical since our within-firm-country estimations already are very demanding. Furthermore, this approach is commonly adopted in the literature (Eichengreen and Irwin 1995;Dunlevy 2006;Lewer 2006;Peri and Requena-Silvente 2010;Bratti et al 2014;Coughlin and Wall 2011;Artal-Tur et al 2012). In essence, the approach mimics a semi-log Tobit (Eichengreen and Irwin 1995;Dunlevy and Hutchinson 1999).…”

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Temporary expats for exports: micro-level evidence

Graneli

Lodefalk

2016

Rev World Econ

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We analyze the relation between temporary expats in firms and exports, exploiting micro-level panel data on migration and trade. Temporary expats are positively associated with exports. Their link with export intensity is larger for services than for merchandise and for exports of differentiated services and merchandise than for exports of homogeneous products. Our evidence also suggests that temporary expats are positively related to exports by assisting firms in overcoming informal destination-specific barriers. Overall, our findings suggest the importance of the temporary movement of persons for providing firms with up-to-date links to export markets. KeywordsExpats Á Temporary movement of persons Á Migration Á Networks Á Firm trade JEL Classification D80 Á F14 Á J61 Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (

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“…Family reunification accounted for more than 63 per cent of all lawful permanent immigration in 2006; employment-preference immigrants accounted for nearly 13 per cent of all lawful permanent immigration; and about 17 per cent were status adjusters who entered as refugees or asylees. Mexico, China, the Philippines, India and Cuba were the top five countries of birth of lawful permanent residents in 2006(Migration Information Source, 2008c.…”

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A Capture–Recapture Approach to Estimation of Refugee Populations

Gold

Wibert

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The debate over immigration continues to be one of the most politically charged policy issues in the United States (US). Given the charged nature of this topic, it is vitally important to have reliable data on not only the number of US foreign nationals but also the characteristics of this extremely heterogeneous group – a population comprised not only of immigrants but also of refugees. There exist a small number of data sources for informing policy and practice at the national level. However, such data are often lacking for smaller geographical areas. This paper describes a recent effort to generate serviceable data on the immigrant and refugee population for a medium‐sized metropolitan area in the US. The objectives of this research were twofold. Our first goal was to provide local stakeholders with information to assist them with resettling and obtaining funding for immigrants and refugees. The second aim was to develop better techniques for tabulating diverse refugees and immigrants in a medium‐sized community. By comparing and contrasting three data sources – that is, refugee services, public schools and a local health plan – we are able to generate estimates of the local refugee and immigrant population. During the period from 2005 to 2007, we estimate the total number of immigrants and refugees in the community to be somewhere between 10,938 and 13,282. Although perhaps a bit on the high end due to methodological assumptions, these estimates seem plausible, based on previously cited figures for the region. While such estimates are valuable, a number of shortcomings related to the data prevent us from painting a more complete picture of these populations. We conclude this paper with a number of recommendations that will assist others in planning research designed to inform migration policy and practice in medium‐sized metropolitan areas.

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The Influence of Corruption and Language On the Protrade Effect of Immigrants: Evidence from the American States

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The Trade Creation Effect of Immigrants: Evidence from the Remarkable Case of Spain

The Trade Creation Effect of Immigrants: Evidence from the Remarkable Case of Spain

Temporary expats for exports: micro-level evidence

A Capture–Recapture Approach to Estimation of Refugee Populations

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