00000nam 2200000zi 4500 9.872452 CaOODSP 20221107163641 m o d f cr ||||||||||| 190503t20192019oncd #ob f000 0 eng d 9780660307657 CaOODSP eng rda CaOODSP n-cn--- CS11-0019/426E-PDF Grekou, Douwere, author. The impact of immigrant business ownership on international trade / by Douwere Grekou and Huju Liu, Loretta Fung. [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, 2019. ©2019 1 online resource (42 pages) : graphs. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Analytical Studies Branch research paper series, 1205-9153 ; no. 426 "May 2019." Issued also in HTML format. Issued also in French under title: Incidence de la propriété d’entreprises par les immigrants sur le commerce international. Includes bibliographical references. "Understanding the impact of immigrants on international trade is particularly important for Canada, as it is a small open economy with a relatively large immigrant population. This paper empirically investigates the effect of immigrant business ownership on international trade in Canada using a newly developed firm-level database with detailed business ownership and trade information. The new data make it possible to better distinguish between the effect immigrants have on reducing information costs and on product demand, and to assess the impact of immigrant business ownership on the extensive and intensive margins of international trade. The results show that although the effect of immigrant business ownership on international trade with all partner regions is either insignificant or small on average, immigrant-owned firms have a positive and significant effect on Canada’s trade with the regions of origin of immigrant owners. Compared with Canadian-owned firms, immigrant-owned firms in the manufacturing sector have, on average, a higher probability of importing from (by 6.7 percentage points) and exporting to (by 2.1 percentage points) the immigrant owners’ regions of origin, ceteris paribus. Also, conditional on being importers or exporters, immigrant-owned firms have stronger trade connections with the regions of origin of immigrant owners - as measured by a larger number of products and average value per product imported or exported - than their Canadian-owned counterparts. The impact of immigrant business ownership is even larger in the wholesale trade sector, highlighting the role of immigrants as trade intermediaries. Immigrant owners admitted through the business, skilled labour or provincial nominee classes, and owners with a higher level of education upon arrival, are more likely to have a greater impact on international trade than other immigrant owners"--Abstract, page 5. gccst Immigrants gccst Businesses gccst International trade Fung, Loretta, author. Liu, Huju, 1977- author. Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch. Incidence de la propriété d’entreprises par les immigrants sur le commerce international / (CaOODSP)9.872454 Research paper series (Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch) 1205-9153 ; no. 426. (CaOODSP)9.504421 PDF 353 KB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2019/statcan/11f0019m/11f0019m2019014-eng.pdf HTML N/A https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/11f0019m/11f0019m2019014-eng.htm 11F0019M - No. 426