In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated … level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the … the immigration surplus. …

sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment decision are estimated. Variables for the proportion of immigrants in … the population and average earnings ratios are used as instruments to control for self-selection into self-employment and …

somewhat surprising as the exceptional growth in the Irish economy occurred from 1994 on. We look to immigration as being a … simulation suggests that immigration did indeed reduce earnings inequality. This result is an interesting corollary to work from … the US that shows the immigration of unskilled workers increasing earnings inequality. …

other hand, we do not find any effect of immigration on employment, neither in the short nor in the long run. … and employment. The transition of immigrants into a new labor market is a gradual process: the dynamics of this process … for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants? arrival, and …

, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates - and that this …Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …

immigration. …

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by …