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 …

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …

close substitutes to the native West German population, and were very unevenly distributed across labor market segments in …

In this paper we analyse the effect of immigration on the labour market prospects for different skill groups among … natives. We develop a model of endogenous labour supply in which immigration affects educational decisions of natives. We … argue that the distributional consequences of immigration with respect to native between-skill-group inequality are …

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …

An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … composition in subsamples of the Current Population Survey extracts. This compositional change is specific to Miami, unrelated to … consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large …