A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration

Zvi Hercowitz () and Eran Yashiv ()

Working Papers from Tel Aviv

Abstract: The paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the native-born. The exogeneity and the size of this inflow make it a "natural experiment'' of macroeconomic proportions. An open-economy model is used to analyze this experience, focusing on the differential entry of immigrants into the labor and goods markets and the ensuing dynamic implications for labor demand. The reduced form of the model---consisting of two equations for native employment and the relative price of domestic goods---is estimated, finding negative effects of immigration on native employment a year and a half after arrival.

Keywords: EMPLOYMENT; OPEN ECONOMY; IMMIGRATION (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 F41 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 1999
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