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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2014/06/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS6900
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2014/06/01
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Disclosed
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Immigrant versus natives ? displacement and job creation
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local labor market