Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper …, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates - and that this … effect is more negative for skilled and white South African native workers - but not on total income. These results are …

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …

enlarged-EU migrants on the native population, the paper concludes with a discussion on lessons learned. …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

representative survey of the German population to assess whether respondents express fears of job loss due to immigration. We focus …A sizeable literature analyses how immigration affects attitudes towards migrants and discusses differences between …

successful in reducing welfare use in general and the immigrant-native welfare gap in particular. -- welfare ; immigration …

Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … reunification and allowing for endogenous immigration, we compare native wage reactions across different segments of the West German … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one …