| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP10627 |
| DP10627 Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K. Firms | |
| Gianmarco Ottaviano; Giovanni Peri; Greg C. Wright | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-05-31 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service-producing firms in the U.K. Immigrants may substitute for imported intermediate inputs (offshore production) and they may impact the productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first effect can be understood as the re-assignment of offshore productive tasks to immigrant workers. The second can be seen as a productivity or cost cutting effect due to immigration, and the third as the effect of immigrants on specific bilateral trade costs. We test the predictions of our model using differences in immigrant inflows across U.K. labor markets, instrumented with an enclave-based instrument that distinguishes between aggregate and bilateral immigration, as well as immigrant diversity. We find that immigrants increase overall productivity in service-producing firms, revealing a cost cutting impact on these firms. Immigrants also reduce the extent of country-specific offshoring, consistent with a reallocation of tasks and, finally, they increase country-specific exports, implying an important role in reducing communication and trade costs for services. |
| 主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics |
| 关键词 | Immigration Services Trade |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10627 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539459 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Gianmarco Ottaviano,Giovanni Peri,Greg C. Wright. DP10627 Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K. Firms. 2015. |
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