Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/311238 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Citation: 
[Journal:] Review of World Economics [ISSN:] 1610-2886 [Volume:] 159 [Issue:] 4 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Berlin, Heidelberg [Year:] 2022 [Pages:] 1013-1047
Publisher: 
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
This paper studies whether firms employing immigrant workers are more resilient to an increase in competition in their export markets. Exploiting the surge of Chinese imports following its accession to the World Trade Organization and using a sample of French manufacturing exporters from 2002 to 2015, we find that an increase in the growth rate of Chinese competition in a foreign market has a negative effect on both the two-year survival and growth rate of sales of French exporters on that foreign market. This negative effect on firm performance is mitigated by the employment of immigrant workers.
Subjects: 
Firm
Heterogeneity
Immigrant workers
Import competition
Productivity
JEL: 
F14
F22
F16
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Article
Document Version: 
Published Version

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