Barry R. Chiswick is Professor 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 his 22 books and monographs and in over 190 scholarly journal articles and chapters in books, in addition to other publications. His latest books are Foundations of Migration Economics (with George Borjas), Oxford University Press, 2019 (IZA Prize Book in Labor Economics) and Jews at Work: Their Economic Progress in the American Labor Market, Springer, in press. 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. He received a Doctor of Philosophy, Honoris Causa, from Lund University (Sweden) in 2009. He also received 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 both Houses of 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 Paper No. 12295
Christina A. Houseworth, Barry R. Chiswick
forthcoming in: Review of the Economics of the Household
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10214
Barry R. Chiswick, Uzi Rebhun, Nadia Beider
published as 'Language Acquisition, Employment Status, and the Earnings of Jewish and non-Jewish Immigrants in Israel' in: International Migration, 2020, 58 (2), 205 - 232
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9791
published as 'Do native-born bilinguals in the US earn more?' in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2018, 16 (3), 563 -583
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9500
published as 'The impact of exposure to missionaries on the English language proficiency and earnings of immigrants in the USA' in: International Journal of Manpower, 2019, 40 (4), 574 - 590
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8488
published as 'Determinants of bilingualism among children: an econometric analysis' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2016, 14 (3), 489 - 506
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7880
published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7389
published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2015, 18 (1)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5724
published as 'The Determinants of Religiosity among Immigrants and the Native Born in Europe' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (4), 563-598; reprinted in: The Economics of Cultural Diversity, 2015, edited by Peter Nijkamp et al.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5420
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2012, 6 (1), 35-55
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5367
published as 'The Awarding of PhDs in the United States and Canada: War, the Draft, and Other Economic Determinants' in: Applied Economics, 2015, 47 (28), 2939 - 2958
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5215
published in: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2013, 34 (1), 120-140
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5075
published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 67-103
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4590
published in: Aaron Levine (ed.), Judaism and Economics, New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 625-645
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4448
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4422
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4382
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2010, 29 (6), 1076-1085
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4280
published in: Barry R. Chiswick (ed.), High Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market, Washington D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, 2010, 111-154
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3740
Barry R. Chiswick, Christina A. Houseworth
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (2), 149-180
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3596
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 29, 2009, 91 - 130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3568
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3563
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64 (3), 502-525
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3384
published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2009, 29 (1), 67-84 (Marshall Sklare Memorial Lecture, Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, Toronto, December 2007)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3316
published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84, S45-S56
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2974
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 27, 75-128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2969
published in: International Migration, 45 (5), 2007, 3 - 34
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2676
published as 'Earnings and Occupational Attainment among Immigrants' in: Industrial Relations, 2009, 48 (3), 454 - 465
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2670
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2009, 28 (2), 162-169
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2664
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 353-372
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2587
published as 'The impact of surplus skills on earnings: Extending the over-education model to language proficiency' in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 36, 263-275
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2575
published as "A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning" in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2008, 29 (1), 16-29
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2405
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2008, 61 (3), 353-373
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2345
published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 26 (4), 555 - 578
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2301
Barry R. Chiswick, Jidong Huang
published in: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 2008, 47 (4), 694-709
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1840
revised paper published as "Testing the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis with Longitudinal Data" in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 7-27
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1782
published in: T.R. Shastri (ed.), Emigration: Economic Implications, Icfai University Press, India, 2007, 84-95
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1755
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2007, 5 (2), 129-157
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1750
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2005, 51 (4), 485-503
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1736
published in: Contemporary Jewry, 2007, 27 (1), 80-111
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1731
published in: Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (6),1317-1340
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1726
Barry R. Chiswick, Michael Wenz
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2006, 24, 179-216
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1432
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 495-526
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1419
published in: Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, 121-148
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1246
published in: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2005, 26 (1), 1-11
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1231
published in: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2004, 6 (2), 185-197
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1226
Barry R. Chiswick, Noyna DebBurman
published in: Social Science Research, 2006, 35 (1), 60-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1216
published as 'Parents and Children Talk: English Language Proficiency within Immigrant Families' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2005, 3 (3), 243-268
IZA Discussion Paper No. 847
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2003, 1 (4), 343-361
IZA Discussion Paper No. 731
Barry R. Chiswick, Noyna DebBurman
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2004, 23 (4), 361-379
IZA Discussion Paper No. 559
published in: M. Bordo, A. Taylor, J. Williamson (eds), Globalization in Historical Perspective, NBER Conference Report, 2003, 65-119
IZA Discussion Paper No. 502
published in: Annales d'Economie et de Statistique, 2004, 71-72, 97-139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 471
published in: International Migration Review, 2006, 40 (2), 419-450
IZA Discussion Paper No. 462
published in: Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 2001, 7 (2), 125-150
IZA Discussion Paper No. 460
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2005, 18 (4), 631–647
IZA Discussion Paper No. 452
published in: International Migration Review, 2005, 39 (2), 332-353
IZA Discussion Paper No. 451
published in: Economics of Education Review, 2003, 22 (5), 469-480
IZA Discussion Paper No. 450
published in: Economic Record, 2003, 79 (245), 165-181
IZA Discussion Paper No. 449
published in: City and Community, 2005, 4 (1), 5-35
IZA Discussion Paper No. 177
Barry R. Chiswick, Gaston Repetto
published in: Djajic, S. (ed.), International Migration: Trends, Policy and Economic Impact, New York, 2001, 204-228
IZA Discussion Paper No. 131
published in: Brettel, C./J. Hollifield (eds.), Migration Theory, New York 2000, 61-76 / 2nd ed., 2008, 63-82
IZA Discussion Paper No. 129
Barry R. Chiswick, Michael E. Hurst
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 Paper No. 108
forthcoming in: Borjas/Chiswick, Foundations of Migration Economics (edited by Constant/Zimmermann), IZA Prize Book Series, OUP
IZA Policy Paper No. 28
published in: Productivity Commission 2011, A 'Sustainable' Population? - Key Policy Issues, Roundtable Proceedings, Productivity Commission, Canberra, 27-40
IZA Policy Paper No. 12
published in: Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, pp.136-148.
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