دانلود رایگان مقاله اثر سرمایه خارجی انسانی به آسپیراسیون کارآفرینی

ABSTRACT

The economics literature tends to view the positive impact of migration on trade as a product of human capital externalities. Drawing on the sociological perspectives of immigrant adaptation, we instead focus on entrepreneurial aspirations that drive immigrants into trade-creation activities. Considering levels of migrant educational attainment while applying entrepreneurship theory to China as the source of both migrants and traded goods, we propose and find support for our key hypothesis that the pro-trade effect of migrant networks is greater among low-skilled than high-skilled immigrants, thus adding precision to existing knowledge of how immigrants positively influence trade

6. Discussion

6.1. Contributions In the context of China, our findings confirm the widely held belief that emigration enhances exports, especially for more differentiated goods (Rauch & Trindade, 2002). Our departure from and thereby main contribution to the literature concerns a key aspect of network heterogeneity, that is, the skill structure of migrants. Viewing immigrants as trade-creating entrepreneurs enables us to conceptually re-consolidate the two mechanisms underpinning the migration-trade nexus. Our entrepreneurship perspective is focused on aspirations, that is, what motivates immigrants to become international entrepreneurs who help create demand and subsequently deliver on such demand. Our novel hypothesis and empirical support, including illustrations from our fieldwork, serve as a context-bound test of such entrepreneurial aspiration logic, and will have implications for research in two primary ways.