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. …

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 …

immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and … explain the null or small impacts of immigration on native employment and wages. Instead, immigration appears to have affected …Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for …

, 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 …