no empirical studies are available on this topic in ghana yet studies undertaken elsewhere often suggest limited effects of immigration on nativeborn labour market outcomes these jointly determine skill cells which are at the centre of the empirical approach adopted in this report the impact of immigration on labour market outcomes including the real wage the employmenttopopulation ratio and the proportion of employed in paid employment is measured by the variations that exist in the proportion of immigrants across skill cells furthermore on average a decline in employment rates is observed across all education groups at younger and older ages due to cyclical unemployment or early retirement