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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 … immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' total income but not on employment rates. Our results are consistent …
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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 … across schooling and experience groups used by Borjas (2003). We estimate that increased immigration has a negative effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561647
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640988
Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...
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Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...
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In the wake of rising immigration and concerns about immigrant skill levels, this paper investigates the skill …
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The arrival of high skilled immigrants through new H-1B visas increases regional entrepreneurship. A doubling of immigrants is associated with an increase of 6% in the three-year quality-adjusted entrepreneurship at the city (CBSA) level, and 5.8% at the neighborhood (ZIP Code) level. In...
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of solidarity to jointly handle the immigration problem, fueled by untamed nationalism and populism. The following …
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EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …
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This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the … 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 excess demand …
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