Published in:Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano Development Studies Working Paper ; No. 351
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1 Online-Ressource (50 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2271172
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments April 13, 2013 erstellt
Description:
Using census data for 1996, 2001, and 2007; we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper contributes to a small but growing literature on the impact of South-South migration by looking at one of the most attractive destinations for migrant workers in Sub-Saharan Africa. We exploit the variation – both at the district level and at the national one – in the share of foreign-born male workers across schooling and experience groups over time. At the district level, 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 robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' total income, but not on employment rates. Our results are consistent with outflows of natives to other districts as a consequence of migration, as in Borjas (2006)