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 …

This Paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the … for 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 …

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … as `flexible' as the UK labour market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …

The possible effects of higher immigration, raising unemployment and lowering earnings for locals, has been a …, chiefly for the US but recently for the UK, have found the effects of immigration to be benign. One possibility is that an … decades, we find consistently negative displacement effects. They imply that immigration to a region of foreign nationals …

We analyse the impact of increased immigration on labour market outcomes of natives in Germany using a dataset of … county-level variables for the late 1980s. We study two measures of immigration, the change in the share of foreigners … unemployment. Taking account of the mean reversion in unemployment we find no detrimental effect of immigration. Similar results …

In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average … compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … useful tool to evaluate the impacts of alternative immigration scenarios on U.S. wages and rents. …

The selection of immigrants by skill and education is a central issue in the analysis of immigration. Since highly … what determines the skill-selectivity of immigration. In this paper we examine the proportions of highly educated among …

In this paper we construct a simple model of the effects of immigration on the labour market outcomes of natives. In …, there are sufficient conditions for immigration to raise total employment. We then estimate the effects of immigration on …