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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 … experience groups used by Borjas (2003). We estimate that increased immigration has a negative effect on natives’ employment …
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced effciency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …
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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 …
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Africa-to-Europe irregular migration depends heavily on human smuggling services.The demise of the Gaddafi regime in 2011 marked the end of a bilateral agreement between Italy and Libya and opened the Central Mediterranean Route for irregular border crossing. How did this remarkable increase in...
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While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no … combining information on the number of temporary work visas with data on lobbying activity associated with immigration. We find … robust evidence that both pro- and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically …
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performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their task supply, thereby reducing downward wage … might explain why economic analyzes commonly find only modest wage and employment consequences of immigration for less …
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This paper examines how immigration affects native wages by exploiting an unexpected episode of immigrant influx. The … episode happened in Hong Kong, when its government unexpectedly relaxed the restriction on immigration from mainland China in …
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Immigration is today one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States. Despite marked divergence of … this paper is to carry out a systematic analysis of the drivers of the voting behavior of US representatives on immigration … suggest that representatives from more skilled labor abundant districts are more likely to support an open immigration policy …
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In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on tradeflows. We exploit the very favorable set …) or historical (colonial ties) attractors for immigration — to deal with the possible distortions generated by the choice …
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