01740cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF000586 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451846614 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Gross, Dominique. Immigration Flows and Regional Labor Market Dynamics / Dominique Gross. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998. 1 online resource (29 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The paper analyzes the ability of a regional labor market to absorb growing flows of immigrant workers with declining levels of skills during relatively high unemployment. The impact of the size of the flow and the skill characteristics of the immigrants are analyzed. It is found that immigration is positively related to unemployment in the short run but in the long run is negatively related. Also, a higher average skill level among immigrants makes them more effective in their job search in the short run. Finally, increasing the discrepancy between the skill distribution of immigrants and that of the existing workforce is desirable, as both types of labor appear to be complements in the short-run. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/047 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1998/047/001.1998.issue-047-en.xml IMF e-Library