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 …

We study the effects of high skilled immigration on employment and net income in the receiving economy where the market … empirical fact that high and low skilled workers are close albeit imperfect substitutes, we show that high skilled immigration … can either be beneficial or harmful, both in terms of employment and net income. More precisely, we conclude that a Pareto …

We study the effects of high skilled immigration on employment and net income in the receiving economy where the market … empirical fact that high and low skilled workers are close albeit imperfect substitutes, we show that high skilled immigration … can either be beneficial or harmful, both in terms of employment and net income. More precisely, we conclude that a Pareto …

-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …

of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with … the preference for the aggregate population size? In this paper we distinguish each of these categories and show for the … case of the Netherlands that each of these elements applies although the effect of population size preference and the self …

as East German origin or income. While there remains some evidence of a negative association even after adjusting for … with other variables such as income, self-employment, or East German origin. …