Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, Josef Zweimüller,
"Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? The Austrian Experience"
, in Journal of Population Economics, 1999, ISSN: 1432-1475
Original Titel:
Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? The Austrian Experience
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the risk of natives to become unemployed. Austria experienced a dramatic rise in the share of alien workers as a result of the breakdown of the former commu-nist regimes (especially from former Yugoslavia). We concentrate on unem-ployment entry of young male workers, who are supposed to compete most heavily with new immigrants. Our results indicate that the detrimental impact - if it exists at all - is only minor. This is irrespective of the analyzed proxy for competition: The share of foreign workers in an industry, in a region, or at the firm level.