It is correct and usable in written English.
Example sentence: The city has seen an increase in its immigrant flow over the past few years.
Most interestingly, it looks at the effect of immigration on the wages of "less educated natives"—the group thought to be most damaged by new arrivals.Countries in the OECD have very different immigration rates (the size of the immigrant flow relative to the population).
In a recent article she presents a compelling way out of one of immigration's trickiest riddles: how to manage the immigrant flow in a way that is realistic, workable and fair to both newcomers and to native-born Americans.
"The immigrant flow to Greece is beyond of what our state infrastructure can handle," Tsipras said.
The immigrant flow started with the abolition of slavery in 1888, which required new sources of labor.
If there is a sticking point, it is the one argued forcefully by Senator John McCain after Thursday's meeting: how to manage the future immigrant flow.
We have our own serious doubts about a commission, beginning with the questionable assumption that the immigrant flow can be controlled like a tap, and that such a mechanism can be designed to fully protect workers' rights and dignity.
To be more precise, we kid ourselves if we think we can fix our broken immigration system without controlling legal immigrant flows.
By examining the results of our immigration variables, the first lag term of immigrant flows yields a positive coefficient, while the second lag term yields a negative coefficient, and both are significant at the 1% level or better.
Utilizing lagged immigration variables also enables us to analyze any dynamic effects that immigrant flows may have on native well-being.
First, we add an interaction between current immigration flows and real GDP growth to see if there is an association between GDP growth and immigrant flows and find that the signs and significance on the immigration flow variables are similar, but the estimated coefficients on the interaction terms are not significant.
On the other hand, my estimates for whites show that some immigrant flows do not affect wages that, while relative demand is downward sloping, immigration does not necessarily increase relative labor supply curves. 1 Tolnay (2003) provides an excellent overview.
