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This page is maintained by Martin Kahanec and Martin Guzi. The Migration Program Area focuses on the many dimensions of the growing international and internal migration. It is concerned with the determinants of the supply and demand for migration, including immigration law and the legal status of migrants. It is also interested in the many aspects of the adjustment of the migrants and their descendants in the destination, including public policies regarding absorption and assimilation. Moreover, the program area is concerned with the impact of the migration on both the origin and the destination. The implications of the analyses for immigration policy, absorption and assimilation policy, and other public policies will also be developed.
For general information about this program area, please contact: migration@iza.org
Core Members of this Program Area:
Costanza Biavaschi, Ph.D.,
Research Associate
Prof. Barry R. Chiswick, Ph.D.,
Research Fellow
Prof. Amelie F. Constant, Ph.D.,
Program Director and Visiting Research Fellow
Corrado Giulietti, Ph.D.,
Senior Research Associate
Martin Guzi,
Resident Research Affiliate
Martin Kahanec, Ph.D.,
Senior Research Associate
Annabelle Krause,
Resident Research Affiliate
Prof. Peter J. Kuhn, Ph.D.,
Visiting Research Fellow
Dr. Olga Nottmeyer,
Research Associate
Zahra Siddique, Ph.D.,
Senior Research Associate
Anzelika Zaiceva, Ph.D.,
Visiting Research Fellow
Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann,
Director
Affiliated Members of this Program Area include:
Alpaslan Akay, Ph.D.,
Senior Research Associate
Prof. David G. Blanchflower, Ph.D.,
Program Director and Visiting Research Fellow
Dr. Ulf Rinne,
Senior Research Associate and Personal Advisor to the Director
Prof. Dr. Jo Ritzen,
Senior Advisor Policy
Nuria Rodriguez-Planas, Ph.D.,
Visiting Research Fellow
Simone Schüller,
Resident Research Affiliate
Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Ph.D.,
Visiting Research Fellow
Please click here to see the full list of IZA Research Fellows affiliated
with this Program Area.
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Amelie F. Constant,
Program Director, DIW DC, George Washington University
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Martin Kahanec,
Deputy Program Director, Central European University, Budapest
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Corrado Giulietti,
Deputy Program Director, IZA
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Highlights |
NewsPress coverage of IZA commentary of Germany's labor market opening to Eastern European workers (May 1, 2011)
Other news items:
- L. Alan Winters in Euroasylum's Monthly Policy Interviews on Migration Policy [view text]
- Amelie Constant in AICGS Advisor: "Women and Entrepreneurship in Germany" [view text]
- George Borjas testifies before U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions [view text]
- Barry R. Chiswick in New York Times: "The Worker Next Door" [view text]
- Barry R. Chiswick, Richard B. Freeman and Harry J. Holzer testify before U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee [view text]
- Amelie Constant in AICGS Advisor: "Immigration at a Critical Juncture" [view text]
- Klaus F. Zimmermann in IZA Compact (April 2006): "Immigration Policy at a Crossroads?" (p. 16) [view text]
- Klaus F. Zimmermann in IZA Compact (April 2011): "New Freedom of Movement for Eastern Europe" (p. 16) [view text] |
IZA Director calls for fundamental changes in German immigration policyIn view of the skilled labor shortage in Germany, IZA Director Klaus F. Zimmermann has urged policymakers to ease the current restrictions on labor immigration. An export nation like Germany "cannot survive in the globalized world" without opening its labor market to qualified foreign workers, said Zimmermann in an interview with the news agency "ddp". At the same time he proposed the establishment of a "Federal Ministry for Immigration and Integration" to ensure a consistent policy with regard to all economic, social and educational aspects surrounding this issue.
For more information (in German) see:
- full text of the ddp interview (July 25, 2010)
- op-ed by Klaus F. Zimmermann in Süddeutsche Zeitung (July 27, 2010)
- IZA Standpunkt No. 28 ("Mehr ökonomische Rationalität in der Zuwanderungspolitik")
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The "Migration Topic Week" established in 2006 is a gathering of migration scholars at IZA and over time it became the regular annual event. The 3rd IZA Migration Topic Week will take place in Washington, DC, USA from May 11 to May 15, 2011.
The idea is to create a forum of discussions on migration, to provide the opportunities to have useful interactions and engage in long discussions with both young scholars and senior researchers in migration, to have highly stimulating and provocative meetings, to brainstorm, and to converge to possible fruitful collaborations.
This forum is not confined to the constrained format of a conference or a workshop. We especially invite researchers who want to work together on migration projects during this week. We expect to have longer lectures from the participants and end the week with our Annual Migration Meeting (AM²). All participants are expected to interface and have an active role during the week and at the AM².
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The Annual Migration Meeting (AM2) established the Julian Simon Keynote Lecture in honor of Julian Simon, in recognition of his research on the economic effects of population change.
2004 Lecture: Don J. DeVoretz, "Immigration Policy: Methods and Assessment" [download PDF]
2005 Lecture: Klaus F. Zimmermann, "Fortress Europe: The Price of Being Closed"
2006 Lecture: Timothy J. Hatton, "Should We Have a WTO for International Migration?" [download PDF]
2007 Lecture: Barry R. Chiswick, "The Economics of Language" [download PDF]
2008 Lecture: Sara de la Rica, "Immigration in Spain: Facts, Economic Outcomes and Lessons" [download PDF]
2009 Lecture: Jeffrey G. Williamson, "Vanishing Third World Emigrants?" [download PDF]
2010 Lecture: Eskil Wadensjö, "Experiences of the Common Nordic Labour Market" [download PDF]
2011 Lecture: Douglas S. Massey ,"The Political Economy of Illegal Migration" [download PDF] |
The Board of Transatlantic AdvisersThe Board of Transatlantic Advisers comprises some of the most influential academicians and policy intellectuals with profound expertise on current labor and migration challenges from both sides of the Atlantic. The main role of the Board is to inform IZA's research agenda by firmly connecting it to the critical scientific and policy issues in the areas of migration, immigrant integration, and the associated transatlantic challenges. The IZA's Migration Program Area frequently consults its research projects with David G. Blanchflower (UK), Barry R. Chiswick (US), Jose Manuel Fresno-Garcia (Spain), Guillermina Jasso (US), Douglas S. Massey (US) and Rita Süssmuth (Germany). |
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Projects |
Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Partner Countries
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European Commission (EuropeAid) |
| Project Start: |
2011/09/01 |
| Project End: |
2013/02/28 |
| Project leader(s): |
Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn), Martin Kahanec (Central European University, Budapest) |
| Participants: |
Corrado Giulietti (IZA), Alexander Muravyev (IZA), Martin Guzi (IZA) |
| Short Description: |
This study aims to provide both the EU Commission and the Partner Countries of the Eastern Partnership (EaP, namely Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine) with an expert analysis of the current patterns of labor migration, their relationships with labor market characteristics as well as the potential for increased flows between the EaP countries and the EU. The study will aim to propose a series of specific and detailed recommendations that could improve the labor migration management of the EU and of its Member States when seeking human capital complementarities with EaP partner countries, and the overall EU economic strategy towards EaP partner countries as well as the labor and labor migration policies of EaP partner countries. Based on available sources as well as original data collection as required, the study aims to provide forecasts of the future impact of labor migration on the labor markets of the EU and the Partner countries, and propose possible policy/legislative/operational interventions to facilitate labor-matching between the EU and the partner countries of the EaP. The study will concentrate on the possible effects of different scenarios of liberalization on the economies and labor markets of Germany, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom and Spain. The choice of these destination countries is based on current migration patterns from these countries (particularly the ones with the largest existing migration flows such as Moldova and Georgia), as well as the likely complementarities between the supply of certain types of skills and demand in EU economies. In the project consortium IZA partners with Central European University, CASE Warsaw, and London School of Economics. |
Last updated: 2011/09/10
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Recent Discussion Papers
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Alicia Adsera, Mariola Pytlikova |
The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration |
January 2012 |
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| 6331 |
Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca |
Social Isolation, Loneliness and Return Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults |
January 2012 |
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| 6330 |
Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor |
The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development |
January 2012 |
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| 6324 |
Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca |
The Psychic Costs of Migration: Evidence from Irish Return Migrants |
January 2012 |
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| 6319 |
Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor |
Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations |
January 2012 |
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| 6314 |
Nick Drydakis |
The Effect of Ethnic Identity on the Employment of Immigrants
(revised version forthcoming in: Review of Economics of the Household) |
January 2012 |
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| 6312 |
Catia Nicodemo, Rosella Nicolini |
Random or Referral Hiring: When Social Connections Matter |
January 2012 |
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| 6300 |
Maria Alejandra Cattaneo, Stefan Wolter |
Migration Policy Can Boost PISA Results: Findings from a Natural Experiment |
January 2012 |
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| 6293 |
Antje Kroeger, Kathryn H. Anderson |
Remittances and Children's Capabilities: New Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2008 |
January 2012 |
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| 6289 |
Alisher Aldashev, Barbara Dietz |
Economic and Spatial Determinants of Interregional Migration in Kazakhstan |
January 2012 |
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| 6287 |
Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny, Emily Kerr |
Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market: Effects of Post-Tiananmen Immigration Policy |
January 2012 |
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Brian Duncan, Stephen Trejo |
The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians |
January 2012 |
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| 6268 |
Jason Gagnon, Theodora Xenogiani, Chunbing Xing |
Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China |
December 2011 |
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| 6261 |
Christian Dustmann, Tommaso Frattini |
Immigration: The European Experience |
December 2011 |
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| 6260 |
Martin Kahanec, Anna Myunghee Kim, Klaus F. Zimmermann |
Pitfalls of Immigrant Inclusion into the European Welfare State |
December 2011 |
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| 6259 |
Magnus Lofstrom, Joseph Hayes |
H-1Bs: How Do They Stack Up to US Born Workers? |
December 2011 |
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| 6258 |
Frédéric Docquier, Caglar Ozden, Giovanni Peri |
The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries |
December 2011 |
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| 6257 |
Christian Dustmann, Albrecht Glitz |
How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply? |
December 2011 |
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| 6253 |
Irene Mosca, Robert Wright |
Chasing Graduate Jobs? |
December 2011 |
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Javier Ortega, Gregory Verdugo |
Assimilation in Multilingual Cities |
December 2011 |
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Selected Publications |
Books: |
| Thomas Bauer, Klaus F. Zimmermann |
The Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham: 2002. |
| Klaus F. Zimmermann, Amelie Constant |
How Labor Migrants Fare, Springer-Verlag: Berlin, et al. 2004, 424 pages. |
| Torben Tranæs, Klaus F. Zimmermann |
Migrants, Work, and the Welfare State, University Press of Southern Denmark: Odense 2004, 436 pages. |
| Barry R. Chiswick |
The Economics of Immigration, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham, UK 2005, 424 pages. |
| Klaus F. Zimmermann, Holger Hinte |
Zuwanderung und Arbeitsmarkt. Deutschland und Dänemark im Vergleich (Immigration and the Labor Market. Germany and Denmark in Comparison), Springer-Verlag: Berlin et al. 2005, 322 pages. |
| Klaus F. Zimmermann |
European Migration: What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press: Oxford/New York 2005, 653 pages. |
| Solomon Polachek, Carmel U. Chiswick, Hillel Rapoport |
The Economics of Immigration and Social Diversity, Vol. 24 (Research in Labor Economics), JAI Press: Greenwich, CT 2006, 488 pages. |
| Klaus F. Zimmermann, Thomas Bauer, Holger Bonin, René Fahr, Holger Hinte |
Migrant Labor Demand in the Face of High Unemployment. An Economic Integration Concept for Germany, Springer-Verlag: Berlin et al. 2007. |
| Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller |
The Economics of Language, Routledge: 2007, 598 pages. |
| Holger Hinte, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Ernst Fehr, Holger Bonin |
Immigration Policy and the Labor Market: The German Experience and Lessons for Europe , Springer: Berlin et al. 2007. |
| Carmel U. Chiswick |
Economics of American Judaism, Routledge: 2008, 208 pages. |
| Robert W. Fairlie, Alicia M. Robb |
Race and Entrepreneurial Success: Black-, Asian- and White-Owned Businesses in the United States, The MIT Press: 2008, 256 pages. |
| Don J. DeVoretz |
Economics of Citizenship in the Old and New World , Malmo: IMER: 2008. |
| Pieter Bevelander, Don J. DeVoretz |
The Economics of Citizenship, MIM: Malmo University: 2008, 176 pages. |
| Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann |
EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration , Springer Verlag: Berlin 2009, 320 pages. |
| Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann |
Ethnic Diversity in the European Labor Markets: Challenges and Solutions (Forthcoming 2011), Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. Cheltenham: 2011. |
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Journal Articles: |
| Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann |
"Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy: A European Perspective", in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 194/4, 4-15. |
| Klaus F. Zimmermann |
"European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials", in: De Economist, 2005, 153 (4), 1-26. |
| Barry R. Chiswick, Yew Liang Lee, Paul W. Miller |
"Immigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis", in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2005, 51 (4), 485-503. |
| Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann |
"The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?", in: Small Business Economics, 2006, 26/3, 279-300. |
| Don J. DeVoretz, Sergiy Pivnenko |
"The Economic Causes and Consequences of Canadian Citizenship", in: Journal of Immigration and Integration, 2006, 6 (3/4), 435-468. |
| Amelie Constant |
"Female Proclivity to the World of Business", in: Kyklos, 2006, 59 (4), 465-480. |
| Amelie Constant, Yochanan Shachmurove |
"Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants", in: International Journal of Manpower, 2006, 27(3), 208-229. |
| Amelie Constant, Yochanan Shachmurove, Klaus F. Zimmermann |
"What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany", in: International Migration, 2007 (forthcoming). |
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