- Title
- The impact of immigration on the labour market: evidence from South Africa
- Creator
- Sibanda, Nomazulu
- Subject
- Immigrants -- South Africa
- Subject
- Labor -- South Africa
- Subject
- Labor costs -- South Africa
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- M Com
- Identifier
- vital:11451
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/207
- Identifier
- Immigrants -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Labor -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Labor costs -- South Africa
- Description
- The impact of immigrants on the labour market in the South African context has always been a long standing issue with both government and natives’ fearing for the latter’s displacement effect, pressure on wages and resources. Migrants are blamed for poor labour market conditions of a host country. Literature reviewed from Africa and elsewhere shows that migrants have negative outcomes on the host country’s labour market. For this study an Error Correction Model on time series data from 1980-2006 has been estimated. The study estimated two models that is the unemployment and the wages models. The variables used for estimation are immigration, inflation and the Gross Domestic Product. The study surprisingly found a positive impact of immigrants on wages but the effect on employment was negative and significant. It is important to note here that the calculated impact is only for the documented immigrants the impact the illegal ones is not known.
- Format
- 108 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Management & Commerce
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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