Ethnic diversity and firms' export behavior

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• 作者：Pierpaolo Parrotta^a ; ^b ; ^c ; ^d ; ^{pierpaolo.parrotta@icn-groupe.fr" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Dario Pozzoli^c ; ^d ; ^{dp.eco@cbs.dk" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Davide Sala^d ; ^e ; ^{davide.sala@uni-passau.de" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}
• 关键词：J15 ; F14 ; F15 ; F16 ; D22
• 刊名：European Economic Review
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：89
• 期：Complete
• 页码：248-263
• 全文大小：508 K

文摘

Media are reporting of companies that are increasing the diversity of their workforce to expand their business internationally. This paper investigates whether these examples constitute pieces of evidence that diversity promotes firms' internationalization. Indeed, diverse companies are like a cosmopolitan world in small scale, in which their employees learn to relate to other cultures. This improves firms' relational capital and ability to market products internationally. To address endogeneity issues, we rely on several empirical strategies, one of which is centered on the well established “shift share” method. Our results are robust across all empirical models, confirming the hypothesis that ethnic diversity favors firms' engagement on international markets.