Immigrant Links to the Home Country: Empirical Implications for U.S. Bilateral Trade Flows
- 1 May 1994
- journal article
- Published by JSTOR in The Review of Economics and Statistics
- Vol. 76 (2) , 302
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2109884
Abstract
Immigrants' ties to their home countries can play a key role in fostering bilateral trade linkages. Immigrant ties include knowledge of home-country markets, language, preferences, and business contacts that have the potential to decrease trading transaction costs. Empirical results for the United States suggest that immigrant links have historically been important in increasing bilateral trade flows with immigrants' home countries.Keywords
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