This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade and to immigration on income per person. To address … (geographical and cultural) can be used to build a strong predictor of openness to immigration and to trade. Our instrumental …-variables estimates establish a robust, positive effect of openness to immigration on long-run income per capita, using demanding …

employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … and hours worked by natives. At the same time we find robust evidence that they increased total factor productivity, on … results are robust to controlling for several other determinants of productivity that may vary with geography such as R …

In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and …

This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service-producing firms in the … productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first effect can be understood as the re-assignment of offshore … productive tasks to immigrant workers. The second can be seen as a productivity or cost cutting effect due to immigration, and …

in a region or sector, it is their productivity advantage that determines the positive effect on domestic firms in … measuring total factor productivity (TFP) of firms and to different empirical specifications …