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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 … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640988
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 … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652487
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 … immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' total income but not on employment rates. Our results are consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083261
Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration in South Africa. In this … across schooling and experience groups used by Borjas (2003). We estimate that increased immigration has a negative effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561647
Abstract: This paper applies cointegration analysis and Granger non-causality tests in order to identify the direction of causality between migration in Greece and two macroeconomic variables: GDP and unemployment. We use annual data for the 1980-2011 period. The data are drawn from the...
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This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the … native employment and the relative price of domestic goods - is estimated, finding negative effects of immigration on native … employment a year after arrival. The delay in the effect is attributed to a positive impact of immigration on the excess demand …
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immigration for natives' labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants' integration in the host … to immigration.<P>Les migrations dans les pays de l'OCDE : Impact sur le marché du travail et intégration<BR>Les pays de … marché du travail ont un rôle important à jouer afin de favoriser les ajustements économiques associés à l'immigration. …
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This paper assesses the consequences of immigration for natives' unemployment in OECD countries and investigates the … role played by product and labour market policies in the economy's adjustment to immigration inflows. The estimations … magnitude.<P>L'impact de l'immigration sur le chômage dans les pays de l'OCDE<BR>Ce document de travail évalue les conséquences …
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The paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the … native employment and the relative price of domestic goods---is estimated, finding negative effects of immigration on native …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005675393
This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … immigration inflows, we follow the "structural skill-cell approach" as for example employed by Borjas (2003) and Ottaviano and … on domestic wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800217