Immigrant versus natives ? displacement and job creation (English)

The impact of immigration on native workers is driven by two countervailing forces: the degree of substitutability between natives and immigrants, and the increased demand for native workers as immigrants reduce the cost of production and output expands. The literature so far has focused on the former substitution effect, while ignoring the latter scale effect. This paper estimates both of these effects using labor force survey data from Malaysia...

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Ozden,Caglar;

Wagner,Mathis Christoph;
Document Date
2014/06/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS6900
Volume No
1
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1
Country
World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2014/06/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Immigrant versus natives ? displacement and job creation
Keywords
local labor market

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Ozden,Caglar; Wagner,Mathis Christoph.

Immigrant versus natives ? displacement and job creation (English). Paper is funded by the Strategic Research Program (SRP)|Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 6900 Washington, DC: World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/112381468182367504

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