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L’effet de création de commerce des immigrants: résultats dans le cas remarquable de l’Espagne .
Author(s) -
Peri Giovanni,
RequenaSilvente Francisco
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2010.01620.x
Subject(s) - margin (machine learning) , immigration , value (mathematics) , demographic economics , transaction cost , economics , international economics , international trade , business , geography , microeconomics , statistics , computer science , machine learning , archaeology , mathematics
This paper investigates the immigration‐trade link using data on individual exporting transactions and immigrants in Spanish provinces between 1995 and 2008. We quantify the impact of new immigrants on the extensive margin (number of transactions) and intensive margin (average value per transaction) of exports. We find that immigrants significantly increase exports and that the effect is almost entirely due to an increase in the extensive margin. Consistent with the idea that immigrants reduce the fixed cost of exporting, we find stronger effects for differentiated goods and for countries that are culturally distant from Spain.