This paper demonstrates the positive effect of immigrant entrepreneurs on manufacturing exports over and above that of diasporas. Using small‐scale regional administrative data, our instrumental variable estimates of export gravity models imply that ceteris paribus, that is, holding constant the total number of immigrants, the expected protrade effect of a migrant becoming an entrepreneur amounts to an average increase of US$5,946 in the export flows toward her country of origin. Besides these dyadic effects, immigrant entrepreneurs unlike nonentrepreneurial immigrants raise a region's overall competitiveness and export flows toward other destinations as well.

Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas, and exports / M. Bratti, L. De Benedictis, G. Santoni. - In: JOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE. - ISSN 1467-9787. - 60:2(2020), pp. 249-272. [10.1111/jors.12455]

Immigrant entrepreneurs, diasporas, and exports

M. Bratti;
2020

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This paper demonstrates the positive effect of immigrant entrepreneurs on manufacturing exports over and above that of diasporas. Using small‐scale regional administrative data, our instrumental variable estimates of export gravity models imply that ceteris paribus, that is, holding constant the total number of immigrants, the expected protrade effect of a migrant becoming an entrepreneur amounts to an average increase of US$5,946 in the export flows toward her country of origin. Besides these dyadic effects, immigrant entrepreneurs unlike nonentrepreneurial immigrants raise a region's overall competitiveness and export flows toward other destinations as well.
exports; gravity model; immigrant entrepreneurs; Italy
Settore SECS-P/01 - Economia Politica
Settore SECS-P/02 - Politica Economica
2020
11-giu-2019
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