Ethnic networks exhibit the potential to lower barriers to trade. The paper identifies the export-promoting effect of emigration on the firm-level using Danish data for the year 2001. Accounting for taste similarity, self-selection and unobserved heterogeneity, three main findings are...

Using a cross-section of countries, we adapt Frankel and Romer's (1999) IV strategy to international labor mobility. Controlling for institutional quality, trade, and financial openness, we establish a robust and non-negative causal effect of immigration on real per capita income.

Immigration impacts on the economy in ample ways: it affects growth, wages and total factor productivity. This study deals with the effects of immigration on firm exports. Can firms benefit from hiring immigrants to expand their export sales? Or do immigrants who live in the firm’s region...