全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K. Firms

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21200
来源ID	Working Paper 21200
	Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K. Firms
	Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano; Giovanni Peri; Greg C. Wright
发表日期	2015-05-26
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 Economics ; Trade ; International Factor Mobility ; Globalization and International Relations
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21200
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578874
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano,Giovanni Peri,Greg C. Wright. Immigration, Trade and Productivity in Services: Evidence from U.K. Firms. 2015.