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Barry R. Chiswick
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Chiswick 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:
No. Author(s)
Title
7389  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities
6854  Barry R. Chiswick
Nicholas Larsen
Russian Jewish Immigrants in the United States: The Adjustment of their English Language Proficiency and Earnings in the American Community Survey
5775  Agnieszka Kanas
Barry R. Chiswick
Tanja van der Lippe
Frank van Tubergen
Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany
(published in: International Migration Review, 2012, 46 (3), 680-709)
5724  Mariya Aleksynska
Barry R. Chiswick
Religiosity and Migration: Travel into One's Self versus Travel across Cultures
(forthcoming as 'The Determinants of Religiosity among Immigrants and the Native Born in Europe' in: Review of Economics of the Household)
5420  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2012, 6 (1), 35-55)
5367  Barry R. Chiswick
Nicholas Larsen
Paul Pieper
The Production of PhDs in the United States and Canada
5215  Barry R. Chiswick
Donka M. Mirtcheva
Religion and Child Health
(published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2013, 34 (1), 120-140)
5075  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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)
4590  Barry R. Chiswick
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)
4448  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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)
4422  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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)
4382  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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)
4280  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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)
3740  Barry R. Chiswick
Christina A. Houseworth
Ethnic Intermarriage among Immigrants: Human Capital and Assortative Mating
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (2), 149-180)
3596  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Citizenship in the United States: The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 29, 2009, 91 - 130)
3568  Barry R. Chiswick
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)
3563  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
The "Negative" Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (3), 502-525)
3384  Barry R. Chiswick
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) )
3316  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Occupational Attainment and Immigrant Economic Progress in Australia
(published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84, S45-S56)
2974  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Modeling Immigrants' Language Skills
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 27, 75-128)
2969  Barry R. Chiswick
Sarinda Taengnoi
Occupational Choice of High Skilled Immigrants in the United States
(published in: International Migration, 45 (5), 2007, 3 - 34)
2676  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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
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
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)
2587  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Matching Language Proficiency to Occupation: The Effect on Immigrants’ Earnings
2575  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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)
2405  Barry R. Chiswick
Anh T. Le
Paul W. Miller
How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution: International Analyses
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (3), 353-373)
2345  Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
Immigrant Selection Systems and Immigrant Health
(published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 26 (4), 555 - 578)
2301  Barry R. Chiswick
Jidong Huang
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)
1840  Michael Beenstock
Barry R. Chiswick
Ari Paltiel
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)
1782  Barry R. Chiswick
High Skilled Immigration in the International Arena
(published in: T.R. Shastri (ed.), Emigration: Economic Implications, Icfai University Press, India, 2007, 84-95)
1755  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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)
1750  Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
Immigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis
(published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2005, 51 (4), 485-503)
1736  Barry R. Chiswick
The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry: 1990 to 2000
(published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2007, 27 (1), 80-111)
1731  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Why Is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?
(published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (6),1317-1340)
1726  Barry R. Chiswick
Michael Wenz
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)
1432  Alicia Adsera
Barry R. Chiswick
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 )
1419  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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)
1246  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
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)
1238  Barry R. Chiswick
Michael Wenz
The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 2000: A Preliminary Report
1231  Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Where Immigrants Settle in the United States
(published in: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2004, 6 (2), 185-197)
1226  Barry R. Chiswick
Noyna DebBurman
Pre-School Enrollment: An Analysis by Immigrant Generation
(published in: Social Science Research, 2006, 35 (1), 60-87)
1216  Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
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)
847 
This paper has repeatedly been among the Top 10 monthly downloads. 
Barry R. Chiswick
Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1 (4), 343-361 )
731 
This paper has repeatedly been among the Top 10 monthly downloads. 
Barry R. Chiswick
Noyna DebBurman
Educational Attainment: Analysis by Immigrant Generation
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2004, 23 (4), 361-379)
559 
This paper has repeatedly been among the Top 10 monthly downloads. 
Barry R. Chiswick
Timothy J. Hatton
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)
502  Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey
(published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 97-139)
471  Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category
(published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 419-450)
462  Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
The Determinants of the Geographic Concentration among Immigrants: Application to Australia
(published in: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 2001, 7 (2), 125-150)
460  Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrants' Destination Language Acquisition
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 631–647)
452  Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis
(published in: International Migration Review, 2005, 39 (2), 332-353)
451 
This paper has repeatedly been among the Top 10 monthly downloads. 
Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22 (5), 469-480)
450  Barry R. Chiswick
Yew Liang Lee
Paul W. Miller
Schooling, Literacy, Numeracy and Labor Market Success
(published in: Economic Record, 2003, 79 (245), 165-181)
449 
This paper has repeatedly been among the Top 10 monthly downloads. 
Barry R. Chiswick
Paul W. Miller
Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment?
(published in: City and Community, 2005, 4 (1), 5-35)
177  Barry R. Chiswick
Gaston Repetto
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)
131  Barry R. Chiswick
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)
129  Barry R. Chiswick
Michael E. Hurst
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.)
 
IZA Policy Papers:
No. Author(s)
Title
28 Barry R. Chiswick
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)
12 Barry R. Chiswick
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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