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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 … effect is more negative for skilled and white South African native workers - but not on total income. These results are …
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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 … effect is more negative for skilled and white South African native workers – but not on total income. These results are …
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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 … effect is more negative for skilled and white South African native workers – but not on total income. These results are …
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Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007, we study the labor market effect of immigration in South Africa. In this … period the share of foreign born over the total population has grown by almost fifty percent, and both the characteristics and … experience groups used by Borjas (2003). We estimate that increased immigration has a negative effect on natives’ employment …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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representative survey of the German population to assess whether respondents express fears of job loss due to immigration. We focus …A sizeable literature analyses how immigration affects attitudes towards migrants and discusses differences between …
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representative survey of the German population to assess whether respondents express fears of job loss due to immigration. We focus …A sizeable literature analyses how immigration affects attitudes towards migrants and discusses differences between …
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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 …
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