Do Immigrants Spur Offshoring? Firm-Level Evidence

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Offshoring is an important aspect of firms' internationalization. However, offshoring comes at a cost, especially where information or trust is lacking. Immigrant employees could reduce such offshoring costs through their knowledge of their former home countries and via access to foreign networks. We develop a framework of heterogeneous final-good firms to guide our empirical analysis and draw on new employer-employee data for approximately 12,000 Swedish firms during the time period 1998-2007. Our results support the hypothesis that immigrant employees spur offshoring activities by firms through lower offshoring costs. Hiring one additional foreign-born worker can increase offshoring up to three percent on average, with skilled migrants having the strongest effects.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Paper ; No. 7/2016

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Firm Behavior: Theory ; Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness ; Empirical Studies of Trade ; International Migration ; Multinational Firms; International Business
• Thema: offshoring ; migration ; networks ; trust ; information ; trade barriers

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas ; Karpaty, Patrik ; Kneller, Richard ; Lodefalk, Magnus
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Örebro University School of Business
• (wo): Örebro
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/244522
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ