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 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 ow significantly responds to France's macroeconomic performance: positively to the country's GDP per capita and …

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 …

and the unemployment rate, and permanent immigration in France over the period 1994-2008. It uses a new database where … immigration is measured by the flow of issuing residence permits of more than one year to foreigners. The flow is distinguished by … autoregression models (VAR) indicates that immigration increases GDP per capita, in particular, for female immigration and family …