Do foreign workers reduce trade barriers? Microeconomic evidence

This paper provides evidence that foreign workers reduce firms’ trade costs and thus increase the probability that firms export. This informs both the literature on trade costs and the microeconomic literature on firms’ export behaviour. We identify the nationality of each worker in a large sample o...

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Volume:	40
Main Author:	Andrews, Martyn Schank, Thorsten Upward, Richard
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	HOBOKEN WILEY 01.09.2017 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc Wiley
published in:	World economy Vol. 40; no. 9; pp. 1750 - 1774
ORCID:	0000-0002-1926-1070 0000-0003-1504-7728
Data of publication:	September 2017
ISSN:	0378-5920 1467-9701
EISSN:	1467-9701
Dewey Decimal Classification:	330
Discipline:	Economics Business International Relations
Subjects:	firm‐level analysis international migration trade barriers exports employer‐employee data Economics Business & Economics International Relations Social Sciences Business, Finance Microeconomics Alien labor Workers Analysis Firm-level analysis International migration Trade barriers Employer-employee data Exports MIGRATION MATTER COSTS firm-level analysis exports EXPORT FIRMS international migration trade barriers employer-employee data
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2017 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Gale General OneFile (A&I only) Academic OneFile (A&I only) OpenAIRE OpenAIRE (Open Access) Database information Databases - DBIS