reduce such costs through their specific knowledge of the employer, their country of birth and access to foreign networks. We …

-related decisions. We investigate whether firm investment in obtaining access to foreign networks impacts exports of services by … services is more sensitive to informal trade barriers, firm investment in access to foreign networks could especially help to … and significant influence of firm investment in foreign networks – through the hiring of foreign-born workers – on both …

home countries and via access to foreign networks. We develop a framework of heterogeneous final-good firms to guide our …