The Effect of Immigration on Unskilled Native Workers: Evidence from a Natura…

This study exploits the natural experiment, provided by the start of the second intifada, to tneasure the effect of immigration on the wage and employment of unskilled native workers. It finds that immigration has no effect on the wage or employment of unskilled Jewish workers. The wage and employment of the least-skilled Israeli Arab workers (with zero to five years of schooling) are adver…