Three Million Foreigners, Three Million Unemployed? Immigration and the French Labor Market
IMF Working Papers, September 1, 1999
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- Authors: Dominique M. Gross
- Published: September 1, 1999
- Series: IMF Working Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451854701.001
Core findings
- Investigates effects of flows of immigrant workers on the French labor market between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s.
- In the long run, legal and amnestied immigrant workers, and their families, lower the unemployment rate permanently.
- In the short run, the arrival of immigrants increases unemployment slightly with an impact similar to that of an increase in domestic labor-force participation.
- The composition of immigration flows matters: the proportion of skilled and less-skilled workers should remain balanced.
Methodology
- Uses a system of equations for:
- unemployment,
- labor-force participation,
- the real wage,
- the immigration rate.
Policy implications and recommendations
- Immigration policy should consider not only the volume but the composition of inflows.
- Maintaining a balance between skilled and less-skilled immigrants is important to labor-market outcomes.
- Short-run labor-market impacts require consideration of domestic labor-force participation dynamics alongside immigration flows.
Publication and metadata
- Author: Dominique M. Gross
- Date: September 1, 1999
- Series: Working Paper No. 1999/124
- Issue: 124
- Volume: 1999
- Pages: 29
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451854701.001
- Stock No: WPIEA1241999
- ISBN: 9781451854701
- ISSN: 1018-5941
- Subject keywords: Labor, Labor force, Labor markets, Migration, Population and demographics, Unemployment, Unemployment rate
- Other keywords: amnestied worker, cointegration, immigrant worker, immigration flow, immigration policy, International migration, Labor force, labor market dynamics, Labor markets, Maghreb, Migration, Unemployment, Unemployment rate, worker sare, workers matter, WP
Source: IMF Working Paper "Three Million Foreigners, Three Million Unemployed? Immigration and the French Labor Market" by Dominique M. Gross (Working Paper No. 1999/124).