01744cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF007640 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451854701 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Gross, Dominique. Three Million Foreigners, Three Million Unemployed? : Immigration and the French Labor Market / Dominique Gross. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999. 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 This paper investigates the effects of the flows of immigrant workers on the French labor market between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s. Using a system of equations for unemployment, labor-force participation, the real wage, and the immigration rate, it is shown that, 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, and the proportion of skilled and less-skilled workers should remain balanced. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/124 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1999/124/001.1999.issue-124-en.xml IMF e-Library