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Immigrants, occupations and firm export performance

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  • Léa Marchal
  • Clément Nedoncelle

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This paper investigates the export‐enhancing effect of immigrant workers and how this effect varies across occupations. We use a dataset made of French manufacturing firms from 1997 to 2009 and address the problem of endogenous employment choice using an instrumental variable‐two‐stage least squares (IV‐2SLS) strategy and a doubly robust estimator. Our results show that immigrants in both low‐ and high‐skilled occupations foster exports at both the intensive and the extensive margins. In addition, we show that this effect is spread across all export destinations.

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  • Léa Marchal & Clément Nedoncelle, 2019. "Immigrants, occupations and firm export performance," Review of International Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(5), pages 1480-1509, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:reviec:v:27:y:2019:i:5:p:1480-1509
    DOI: 10.1111/roie.12432
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    1. Léa Marchal & Giulia Sabbadini, 2021. "Immigrant Workers, Firm Export Performance and Import Competition," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 21007, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
    2. Ariu, Andrea, 2022. "Foreign workers, product quality, and trade: Evidence from a natural experiment," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 139(C).
    3. Léa Marchal & Clément Nedoncelle, 2019. "Immigrants, occupations and firm export performance," Review of International Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 27(5), pages 1480-1509, November.
    4. Miguel Cardoso & Ananth Ramanarayanan, 2022. "Immigrants and exports: Firm‐level evidence from Canada," Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 55(3), pages 1250-1293, August.
    5. Andreas Hatzigeorgiou & Patrik Karpaty & Richard Kneller & Magnus Lodefalk, 2024. "Immigrant employment and the contract enforcement costs of offshoring," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer;Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), vol. 160(3), pages 953-981, August.
    6. Léa Marchal & Giulia Sabbadini, 2023. "Immigrant workers and firm resilience on the export market," Review of World Economics (Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv), Springer;Institut für Weltwirtschaft (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), vol. 159(4), pages 1013-1047, November.
    7. HASHIMOTO, Yuki, 2025. "Global competition and labor-intensive production in SMEs: Firm-level evidence from Japan at the threshold of the lost decades," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).
    8. Ghose,Devaki & Wang,Zhiling, 2023. "Offshoring Response to High-Skilled Immigration : A Firm-Level Analysis," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10371, The World Bank.
    9. Aksel Erbahar & Ömer Tarık Gençosmanoğlu, 2023. "Migrants and imports: Evidence from Dutch firms," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 90(360), pages 1204-1228, October.

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    JEL classification:

    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions

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