Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/113130 
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Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2015: Ökonomische Entwicklung - Theorie und Politik - Session: Foreign Direct Investment I No. D05-V3
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Abstract: 
Using novel German district-level data from 1999-2011, this paper analyses whether the presence of immigrants in a particular location helps to attract inward FDI from the immigrants' country of origin. Results show that a one standard-deviation increase in the immigrant share is associated with a 3.3% rise in firm entry. This effect is stronger for an investor's first entry into Germany, and there is indication that firms from developing countries depend more on immigrants. A quasi-natural experiment exploiting the migration of ethnic Germans from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s (`Sp taussiedler') confirms the results.
JEL: 
F14
F22
F23
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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