Utlandsfödda kan främja företagens export av tjänster

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Ekonomin blir alltmer tjänsteorienterad. Sveriges BNP utgörs nu till ca 70 procent av tjänster. Den andel av arbetskraften som sysselsätts inom tjänstesektorn ökar, samtidigt som industrin blir mer tjänsteintensiv. Men trots att karaktären på svensk utrikeshandel följer en liknande trend brister förståelsen av vad som driver och hämmar tjänsteutrikeshandeln. Denna kunskapslucka har fått oönskade konsekvenser och kan förklara varför insatser för att underlätta internationalisering avseende tjänster har fått en undanskymd roll i handelspolitiken. Denna artikel analyserar hur utlandsfödda inverkar på företagens utrikeshandel med tjänster. Vi finner stöd för att svenska företag kan öka sin tjänsteutrikeshandel genom att anställa utlandsfödda med högskoleutbildning.

Ratio Working Paper No. 359: Stayin’ Alive: Export Credit Guarantees and Export Survival

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Lodefalk, M., Tang, A. & Yu, M.

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2022

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Ratio Working Paper.

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We use survival analysis to analyse the impact of export credit guarantees on firms’ export duration using granular Swedish panel data at the firm-country and firm-country-product levels. The estimation results show that firms’ export survival substantially increases with guarantees, at both levels. The associations are particularly strong for smaller firms and contracts as well as in trade with riskier markets. The findings have implications for policies to promote long-run export growth.

International trade and labour market integration of immigrants

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Lodefalk, M., Sjöholm, F., & Tang, A.

Publication year

2022

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The World Economy, 45, 1650– 1689.

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We examine whether international trade improves labour market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labour market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome information frictions in trade. Using granular longitudinal matched employer–employee data and an instrumental variable approach, we estimate the causal effects of a firm’s bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages.

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A Literature Review of the Nexus between Migration and Internationalization

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Hatzigeorgiou, A. & Lodefalk, M.

Publication year

2021

Published in

Journal of International Trade & Economic Development

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Protectionism and anti-globalization tides have been rising already before the COVID-19 pandemic, with Brexit and the China-U.S. trade war, as two examples. A continued disruption to global trade, investment and value chains could worsen global development. Economic recovery will require restoring firms’ ability to trade, offshore and invest globally. To achieve this, it will be useful to understand the role of migration for foreign trade, investment and other aspects of internationalization. In this paper we review and discuss over 100 papers published about migrants’ roles on international trade, foreign direct investment and offshoring. Although the evidence suggests that migration facilitates trade and internationalization, we also note substantial gaps and inconsistencies in the existing literature. The aim of this paper is to encourage further research and assist policymakers in their efforts to promote economic recovery including internationalization.

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