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 …

The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the 'absorption … we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on …

Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of … opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration across regions is hardly exogenous, which … obstructs attempts to reveal causal mechanisms. This paper explores changes in the immigrant population in Danish municipalities …

This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …

This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … concentration of immigrants affect the subjective well-being of the German-born population. Our results suggest the existence of a … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market …

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …

Borjas thesis that self-selection and not immigration policy sorts immigrants between Canada and the U.S. …

This paper uses a gravity model of migration to analyze how income differentials affect the flow of immigrants into U ….S. states using annual data from the American Community Survey. We add to existing literature by decomposing income … determinants of immigration. Models that include observations with zero flow values find that recent male immigrants respond to …

for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants? arrival, and … substitutes for natives because of their lack of local human capital, the initial effect of immigration is small, and the effect … alternative hypotheses using data from Israel?s Labor Force and Income Surveys from 1989 to 1999. We find that wages of both men …