This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To … predictors of openness to immigration and to trade for each country by using information on bilateral geographical and cultural … institutions and early development. Our instrumental-variables estimates provide evidence of a robust, positive effect of openness …

Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …

a stimulus for productivity growth of local firms in the same region. … or sector, it is their productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic productivity … growth.We test this hypothesis using firm level data for German and Italian company for the 90''s. and we find evidence of a …

Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …

This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To … predictors of openness to immigration and to trade for each country by using information on bilateral geographical and cultural … institutions and early development. Our instrumental-variables estimates provide evidence of a robust, positive effect of openness …

productivity. …