an important question in this context is whether or to what extent the employment of immigrant workers has been beneficial or detrimental for the employment of nativebom thai workers in accordance with the literature which generally does not report significant effects of an increased presence of foreignbom workers on nativebom workers employment rates it is found that this presence has no impact on the overall level of nativebom individuals employment however there is a positive effect of immigration on the level of nativebom paid employment