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Immigration And Intra-Industry Trade: The Relevance Of Language, Qualification And Economic Integration

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  • Horácio C. Faustino

    (ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management,Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

  • Isabel Proença

    (ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management,Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

Abstract

This paper analyses the immigration into Portugal between 2000 and 2005, estimating the effect of the increasing stock of immigrants and some of its characteristics on Portugal’s bilateral intra-industry trade with 37 countries. These comprise all the partner-states of the European Union (EU-27). Using panel data and the pseudo-likelihood logit estimator the results suggest that an increase of the immigrant stock will produce an increment in the intra-industry trade indexes. Our findings also suggest that immigrant qualifications and common language have a positive impact on intra-industry trade. Classification- JEL:

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  • Horácio C. Faustino & Isabel Proença, 2015. "Immigration And Intra-Industry Trade: The Relevance Of Language, Qualification And Economic Integration," Portuguese Journal of Management Studies, ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, vol. 0(1), pages 3-18.
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