This paper quantitatively assesses the interaction between permanent immigration into France and France's macroeconomic … performance as seen through its GDP per capita and its unemployment rate. It takes advantage of a new database where immigration … immigration flow significantly responds to France's macroeconomic performance: positively to the country's GDP per capita and …

This paper investigates the immigration impact on native outcomes using micro-level data for France. I find that … immigration does not affect the wages of competing natives, but induces adverse employment effects. This finding is consistent … interpretation of the immigration impact. First, I show that immigrants displace native workers because they are more willing to have …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while … in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. On the other hand, our results show that, in four countries …

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ a …