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Barry R. Chiswick is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS), George Washington University (since 2011). Until 2010 he was UIC Distinguished Professor (since 2002)and Research Professor (since 1978) of the Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He was Department Head from 1987 to 2008. In addition, he was Research Professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Survey Research Laboratory at UIC and Founding Director of the UIC Center for Economic Education (2000). From 2004 until 2011 he was Program Director for Migration Studies at IZA. He is co-recipient of the 2011 IZA Prize in Labor Economics.
Professor Chiswick received his Ph.D. with Distinction in Economics from Columbia University (1967) and has held permanent and visiting appointments at UCLA, Columbia University, CUNY, Stanford University, Princeton University, Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa, and on four occasions the University of Chicago. From 1973 to 1977 he was Senior Staff Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is a former chairman of the American Statistical Association Census Advisory Committee, and past President of the European Society for Population Economics, the Midwest Economics Association and the Illinois Economics Association, and a consultant to numerous U.S. government agencies, as well as to the World Bank and other international organizations. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics and Research in Economics of the Household, and on the editorial boards of four additional academic journals.
Professor Chiswick has an international reputation for his research in Labor Economics, Human Resources, the Economics of Immigration, the Economics of Minorities, the Economics of Language, Economics of Religion, and Income Distribution. He is recognized as having done the seminal research on the Economics of Immigration, and continues to be the leader in the field. His research has been published in 14 books and monographs and in over 140 scholarly journal articles and chapters in books, in addition to other publications. His latest book is The Economics of Language (with Paul W. Miller), Routledge, 2007. His research is cited frequently in textbooks and in the academic literature. In addition to numerous seminar and conference presentations in the United States, Professor Chiswick has lectured in 22 other countries.
Professor Chiswick has received numerous awards for his research, including an appointment as Distinguished Professor at UIC, a Fulbright (Research) Fellowship, the Senior University Scholar Award from the University of Illinois, the UIC College of Business Administration Alumni Award for Distinguished Research (first recipient), the Carleton C. Qualey Article Award from the Immigration History Society (first recipient), the Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research, and the Marshall Sklare Award from the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry. He delivered the Julian Simon Lecture (2007) at the IZA Annual Migration Meeting in Bonn. He also received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Brooklyn College (1999) for his research on immigrants and minorities.
Professor Chiswick is frequently interviewed by the print and electronic media on a range of labor market issues, especially immigration and minorities. He has published policy analyses of these issues in newspapers and magazines, has testified before Congress on pending legislation, and given public lectures to community groups on these and related issues. His policy recommendations regarding the reform of immigration law have influenced the public debate and legislation. |
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IZA Discussion Papers:
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities
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Barry R. Chiswick
Nicholas Larsen
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Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States: The Adjustment of their English Language Proficiency and Earnings in the American Community Survey
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Agnieszka Kanas
Barry R. Chiswick
Tanja van der Lippe
Frank van Tubergen
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Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany
(published in: International Migration Review, 46(3), Fall 2012, pp. 680-709) |
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Mariya Aleksynska
Barry R. Chiswick
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Religiosity and Migration: Travel into One's Self versus Travel across Cultures
(published as "The Determinants of Religiosity among Immigrants and the Native Born in Europe" in Review of Economics of the Household, ( forthcoming )) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2012, 6 (1), 35-55) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Nicholas Larsen
Paul Pieper
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The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada
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Barry R. Chiswick
Donka M. Mirtcheva
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Religion and Child Health
(published in Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 34 (1), March 2013, pp. 120-140.) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 67-103) |
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The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From 18th Century Merchants to 21st Century Professionals
(published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 625-645) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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An Explanation for the Lower Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market
(published in: Ted McDonald et al. (eds.): Canadian Immigration - Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal and Kingston, 2010, 41-75) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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ORU Analyses of Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons
(published as "The Effects of Educational-Occupational Mismatch on Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons" in: International Migration Review, 2010, 44(4), 869-898) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the ORU Earnings Equation?
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1076-1085) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Educational Mismatch: Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working at High-Skilled Jobs and the Price They Pay If They Aren't?
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick (ed.), High Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market, Washington D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, 2010, 111-154) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Christina A. Houseworth
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Ethnic Intermarriage among Immigrants: Human Capital and Assortative Mating
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (2), 149-180) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Citizenship in the United States: The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 29, 2009, 91 - 130) |
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The Economics of Language: An Introduction and Overview
(Julian Simon Lecture IV, IZA, 2008 and published in: Terrance Wiley, Jin Sook Lee and Russell Rumberger (eds.),The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States, Bristol, 2009, 72-91) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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The "Negative" Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (3), 502-525) |
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The Rise and Fall of the American Jewish PhD
(published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2009, 29 (1), 67-84 (Marshall Sklare Memorial Lecture, Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, Toronto, December 2007) ) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Occupational Attainment and Immigrant Economic Progress in Australia
(published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84, S45-S56) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Modeling Immigrants' Language Skills
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 27, 75-128) |
| 2969 |
Barry R. Chiswick
Sarinda Taengnoi
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Occupational Choice of High Skilled Immigrants in the United States
(published in: International Migration, 45 (5), 2007, 3 - 34) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Earnings and Occupational Attainment: Immigrants and the Native Born
(published as 'Earnings and Occupational Attainment among Immigrants' in: Industrial Relations, 48 (3), 2009, 454 - 465) |
| 2670 |
Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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The International Transferability of Immigrants’ Human Capital Skills
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (2), 162-169) |
| 2664 |
Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 353-372) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Matching Language Proficiency to Occupation: The Effect on Immigrants’ Earnings
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| 2575 |
Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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The Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning: What the 2000 US Census Says
(published as "A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning" in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008, 29 (1), 16-29) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Anh T. Le
Paul W. Miller
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How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution: International Analyses
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (3), 353-373) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
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Immigrant Selection Systems and Immigrant Health
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 26 (4), 555 - 578) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Jidong Huang
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The Earnings of American Jewish Men: Human Capital, Denomination and Religiosity
(published in: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2008, 47 (4), 694-709) |
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Michael Beenstock
Barry R. Chiswick
Ari Paltiel
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Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data
(revised paper published as "Testing the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis with Longitudinal Data" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 7-27) |
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High Skilled Immigration in the International Arena
(published in: T.R. Shastri (ed.), Emigration: Economic Implications, Icfai University Press, India, 2007, 84-95) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (2), 129-157) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
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Immigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2005, 51 (4), 485-503) |
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The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000
(published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2007, 27 (1), 80-111) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Why Is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (6),1317-1340) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Michael Wenz
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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 179-216) |
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Alicia Adsera
Barry R. Chiswick
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Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes across European Destinations?
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 495-526 ) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: What Immigration Policy Can Do!
(published in: Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, 121-148) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages
(published in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005, 26 (1), 1-11) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Michael Wenz
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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 2000: A Preliminary Report
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Where Immigrants Settle in the United States
(published in: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2004, 6 (2), 185-197) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Noyna DebBurman
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Pre-School Enrollment: An Analysis by Immigrant Generation
(published in: Social Science Research, 2006, 35 (1), 60-87) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
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Parents and Children Talk: The Family Dynamics of English Language Proficiency
(published as 'Parents and Children Talk: English Language Proficiency within Immigrant Families' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2005, 3 (3), 243-268) |
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Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1 (4), 343-361 ) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Noyna DebBurman
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Educational Attainment: Analysis by Immigrant Generation
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2004, 23 (4), 361-379) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Timothy J. Hatton
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International Migration and the Integration of Labor Markets
(published in: M. Bordo, A. Taylor, J. Williamson (eds), Globalization in Historical Perspective, NBER Conference Report, 2003, 65-119) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 97-139) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
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Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
(published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 419-450) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
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The Determinants of the Geographic Concentration among Immigrants: Application to Australia
(published in: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 2001, 7 (2), 125-150) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
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Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Destination Language Acquisition
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 631–647) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
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Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis
(published in: International Migration Review, 2005, 39 (2), 332-353) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22 (5), 469-480) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
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Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labor Market Success
(published in: Economic Record, 2003, 79 (245), 165-181) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment?
(published in: City and Community, 2005, 4 (1), 5-35) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Gaston Repetto
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Immigrant Adjustment in Israel: Literacy and Fluency in Hebrew and Earnings
(published in: Djajic, S. (ed.), International Migration: Trends, Policy and Economic Impact, New York 2001, 204-228) |
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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
(published in: Brettel, C./J. Hollifield (eds.), Migration Theory, New York 2000, 61-76 / 2nd ed., 2008, 63-82) |
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Barry R. Chiswick
Michael E. Hurst
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The Employment, Unemployment and Unemployment Compensation Benefits of Immigrants
(published in: Bassi, L. J./Woodbury, S. A. (eds.), Long-Term Unemployment and Reemployment Policies (Research in Employment Policy, V. 2), Stamford, Conn. (2000), 87-115.) |
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IZA Policy Papers:
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Immigration: High Skilled vs. Low Skilled Labor?
(published in: Productivity Commission 2011, A 'Sustainable' Population? - Key Policy Issues, Roundtable Proceedings, Productivity Commission, Canberra, 27-40) |
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Top Ten Myths and Fallacies Regarding Immigration
(published in Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, pp.136-148.) |
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