Do immigrants displace young native workers: The Austrian experience

Rudolf Winter-Ebmer and Josef Zweimüller ()

Journal of Population Economics, 1999, vol. 12, issue 2, 327-340

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the unemployment risk of young natives. Austria experienced a dramatic rise in the share of alien workers as a result of the breakdown of the former communist regimes (especially from former Yugoslavia). We concentrate on unemployment 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 or in a region.

Keywords: Immigration; ·; unemployment; risk; ·; native; workers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-06-17
Note: Received: 7 March 1996/Accepted: 20 March 1998
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