IZA Discussion Papers

revised version published as 'Barriers to social inclusion and levels of urbanisation: Does it matter where you live?' in: Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 2024, 17 (1), 59 - 74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16044

In and Out of Privileged and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in Sweden – On the Importance of Country of Birth

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Torun Österberg

published in: Population, Space and Place, 2023, 29 (4) e2657

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16004

Trends in Gender and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Physical Disability and Social Support among U.S. Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment Living Alone, 2000–2018

Shanquan Chen, Huanyu Zhang, Benjamin R. Underwood, Dan Wang, Xi Chen, Rudolf N. Cardinal

published in: Innovation in Aging, 2023, 7 (4), igad028

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15989

Pay-As-They-Get-In: Attitudes Towards Migrants and Pension Systems

Tito Boeri, Matteo Gamalerio, Massimo Morelli, Margherita Negri

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2024, 24 (1), 63–78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15979

The Great Migration and Educational Opportunity

Cavit Baran, Eric Chyn, Bryan Andrew Stuart

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2024, 16 (3), 354–e98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15957

How Middle-Skilled Workers Adjust to Immigration: The Role of Occupational Skill Specificity

Damiano Pregaldini, Uschi Backes-Gellner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15950

Language Proficiency and Hiring of Immigrants: Evidence from a New Field Experimental Approach

Magnus Carlsson, Stefan Eriksson, Dan-Olof Rooth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15930

Crossing Borders: Labor Market Effects of European Integration

Hannah Illing

This is an updated version of IZA DP 15930, first published in February 2023. The new version includes an update of the matching algorithm and additional robustness checks.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15911

The Value of a Green Card in the U.S. Marriage Market: A Tale of Chain Migration?

Cynthia Bansak, Eva Dziadula, Madeline Zavodny

published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 82, 102062

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15878

Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter

Nicolas Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman, Pedro C. Sant’Anna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15866

Border Apprehensions and Federal Sentencing of Hispanic Citizens in the United States

Simone Bertoli, Morgane Laouénan, Jérôme Valette

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15861

American Indian Casinos and Native American Self-Identification

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (6), 2547 - 2585

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15851

The Evolution of Labor Market Disparities between Hispanic and Non-hispanic Men: 1970-2019

Ioannis Kospentaris, Leslie S. Stratton

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2025, 38 (1), 3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15850

Forced Migration and Social Cohesion: Evidence from the 2015/16 Mass Inflow in Germany

Emanuele Albarosa, Benjamin Elsner

published in: World Development, 2023,167, 106228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15829

Disparate Racial Impacts of Shelby County v. Holder on Voter Turnout

Stephen B. Billings, Noah Braun, Daniel Jones, Ying Shi

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 230, 105047

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15821

Secure Communities as Immigration Enforcement: How Secure Is the Child Care Market?

Umair Ali, Jessica H. Brown, Chris M. Herbst

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 233, 105101

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15804

Broadband Internet and Attitudes Towards Migrants: Evidence from Spain

Marta Golin, Alessio Romarri

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2024, 85, 102579

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15802

Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market: Patterns over Time and across Generations

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, 37 (1), 169–198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15792

Do Immigrants Ever Oppose Immigration?

Aflatun Kaeser, Massimiliano Tani

publishled in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 80, 102460

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15786

Citizenship and Integration

Christina Gathmann, Julio Garbers

published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 82, 102343

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15770

Moving up the Social Ladder? Wages of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants from Developing Countries

Kevin Pineda-Hernández, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral

forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15753

Public Opinion, Racial Bias, and Labor Market Outcomes

Kaveh Majlesi, Silvia Prina, Paul Sullivan

published in: Nature Human Behaviour, 2024, 8, 1493–1505

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15746

Immigrant Peers and Foreign Language Acquisition

Colin P. Green, Kristine Bekkeheien Haaland, Jon Marius Vaag Iversen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15736

The Impact of Immigration and Integration Policies On Immigrant-Native Labor Market Hierarchies

Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec, Lucia Mýtna Kureková

published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023, 49 (16), 4169–4187

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15718

Hate in the Time of COVID-19: Racial Crimes against East Asians

Joel Carr, Jonathan James, Joanna Clifton-Sprigg, Suncica Vujic

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15707

An Arab, an Asian, and a Black Guy Walk into a Job Interview: Ethnic Stigma in Hiring after Controlling for Social Class

Hannah Van Borm, Louis Lippens, Stijn Baert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15659

Naturalization and Immigrants' Health

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll

published in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (2), 310 - 332

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15642

Migrants from Ukraine and Belarus Living in Sweden before the War

Fredrik W. Andersson, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15624

Spillover Effects of Immigration Policies on Children's Human Capital

Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Bernhard Schmidpeter

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15600

COVID-19 and the Swedish Labor Market in 2021, the Second COVID-19 Year

Fredrik W. Andersson, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15587

Immigrants and Trade Union Membership: Does Integration into Society and Workplace Play a Moderating Role?

Fenet Jima Bedaso, Uwe Jirjahn, Laszlo Goerke

revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2024, 62 (2), 262-292 (authored by Fenet Jima Bedaso and Uwe Jirjahn)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15546

Native American 'Deaths of Despair' and Economic Conditions

Randall K. Q. Akee, Donn. L. Feir, Marina Mileo Gorzig, Samuel Myers Jr

published in: Research in Social Stratification, 2024, 89, 100880

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15542

Understanding Labor Market Discrimination against Transgender People: Evidence from a Double List Experiment and a Survey

Billur Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter, Dario Sansone

published in: Management Science, 2024, 71 (1), 659-677.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15538

The Long Run Impact of Childhood Interracial Contact on Residential Segregation

Luca Paolo Merlino, Max F. Steinhardt, Liam Wren-Lewis

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105242

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15527

What Divides the First and Second Generations? Family Time of Arrival and Educational Outcomes for Immigrant Youth

Marie C. Hull

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2023, 89 (3), 754-787

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15503

Temporary Replacement Workers in a Matching Model with Employment at Will

Pietro Garibaldi, Pedro Maia Gomes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15498

The Slaughter of the Bison and Reversal of Fortunes on the Great Plains

Donn. L. Feir, Rob Gillezeau, Maggie E. C. Jones

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2024, 91 (3), 1634–1670

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15482

Migration and Firm-Level Productivity

Richard Fabling, David C. Maré, Philip Stevens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15473

Discrimination in a Rank Order Contest. Evidence from the NFL Draft

Ian Gregory-Smith, Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez

published in: Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, 2023, 6, 215-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15460

Testing for Discrimination in Rental Markets: Experimental Evidence from the UK

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner, Tania Oliveira, Nikitha Rohith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15426

Skill Downgrading among Refugees and Economic Immigrants in Germany: Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Crisis

Plamen Nikolov, Leila Salarpour Goodarzi, David Titus

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15393

Second-Generation Immigrants and Native Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Europe

Oscar Barrera, Isabelle Bensidoun, Anthony Edo

published online in: Migration Studies, mnae010, 02 April 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15358

Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations

Donn. L. Feir, Kelly Foley, Maggie E. C. Jones

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15356

Immigration and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 Refugee Inflow to Germany

Julia Bredtmann

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 96, 103807

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15332

Commuting to Work and Gender-Conforming Social Norms: Evidence from Same-Sex Couples

Sonia Oreffice, Dario Sansone

published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102451

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15285

Homosexuality's Signalling Function in Job Candidate Screening: Why Gay Is (Mostly) OK

Philippe Sterkens, Axana Dalle, Joey Wuyts, Ines Pauwels, Hellen Durinck, Stijn Baert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15263

Automated Chat Application Surveys Using Whatsapp: Evidence from Panel Surveys and a Mode Experiment

Jennifer Fei, Jessica Sadye Wolff, Michael Hotard, Hannah Ingham, Saurabh Khanna, Duncan Lawrence, Beza Tesfaye, Jeremy Weinstein, Vasil Yasenov, Jens Hainmueller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15261

Diving in the Minds of Recruiters: What Triggers Gender Stereotypes in Hiring?

Hannah Van Borm, Stijn Baert

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15240

What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal about Racial Preferences

Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom

published in: Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, 2023, 1 (4), 615–668.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15219

Incomplete Catching Up: Income among Manchurian, Yi and Han People in Rural China from 2002 to 2018

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Yudan Zhang

published in: China Quarterly, 2023, 253, 197 - 213.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15206

Does Religious Diversity Improve Trust and Performance? Evidence from Lebanon

Serena Canaan, Antoine Deeb, Pierre Mouganie

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15189

Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers

Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Roberto Nistico

forthcoming in: Demography, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15187

The Effect of Foreign Students on Native Students' Outcomes in Higher Education

Julián Costas-Fernández, Greta Morando

published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 160, 104595

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15186

How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer

Robert Dur, Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez, Cornel Nesseler

revised version published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2023, 49 (1), 175 - 191

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15184

Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US

Mingyu Chen, Jessica Howell, Jonathan Smith

published in: Labour Economics 2023, 84, 102385

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15167

COVID-19 and the Swedish Labor Market – A Register Perspective

Fredrik W. Andersson, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15146

The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries

Kirk Doran, Alexander Gelber, Adam Isen

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (10), 2501–2533

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15098

Social Distancing, Stimulus Payments, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the US during COVID-19

Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin, Silvia Prina

published in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2022, 112, 262 - 266

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15095

Reducing Racial Inequality in Access to the Ballot Reduces Racial Inequality in Children's Later-Life Outcomes

Daniel Jones, Ying Shi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15078

The Political Economy of Propaganda: Evidence from US Newspapers

Sebastian Ottinger, Max Posch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15063

Limbo or Leverage? Asylum Waiting and Refugee Integration

Olof Aslund, Mattias Engdahl, Olof Rosenqvist

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 234, 105118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15042

Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, Gian Luca Tedeschi

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2025, 39, 42-60

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15019

The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican-American School Desegregation

Francisca M. Antman, Kalena E. Cortes

published in: Journal of Economic Literature American, 2023, 61 (3), 888–905

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15002

Updates on Returns to Education in India: Analysis Using PLFS 2018-19 Data

Jie Chen, Sanghamitra Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Francesco Pastore

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14966

The State of Hiring Discrimination: A Meta-Analysis of (Almost) All Recent Correspondence Experiments

Louis Lippens, Siel Vermeiren, Stijn Baert

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 151, 104315

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14962

Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

Philipp Jaschke, Sulin Sardoschau, Marco Tabellini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14960

Firm Productivity and Immigrant-Native Earnings Disparity

Olof Aslund, Cristina Bratu, Stefano Lombardi, Anna Thoresson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14935

Uncovering the Roots of Obesity-Based Wage Discrimination: The Role of Job Characteristics

Juan J. Dolado, Airam Guerra

published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 85, 102425

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14907

Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime

Sungwoo Cho, Felipe Gonçalves, Emily Weisburst

This version: 8/2022; First version (IZA Working Paper): 12/2021.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14886

Testing for Ethnic Discrimination in Outpatient Health Care: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Germany

Martin Halla, Christopher Kah, Rupert Sausgruber

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14882

Older Immigrants' New Poverty Risk in Scandinavian Welfare States?

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Vibeke Jakobsen, Hanna Mac Innes, Peder J. Pedersen, Torun Österberg

published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2022, 48 (19), 4648 - 4669

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14874

Discrimination and Daycare Choice: Evidence from a Randomized Survey

Mongoljin Batsaikhan, Mette Gørtz, John Kennes, Ran Sun Lyng, Daniel Monte, Norovsambuu Tumennasan

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 08 January 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14845

The Economics of Being LGBT. A Review: 2015-2020

Nick Drydakis

published in: Julie. A. Gedro and Tonette. S. Rocco (eds), The Routledge Handbook of LGBTQ Identity in Organizations and Society, London: Routledge, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14840

Asylum Recognition Rates in Europe: Persecution, Policies and Performance

Timothy J. Hatton

published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 76, 102267

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14837

TRAP'd Teens: Impacts of Abortion Provider Regulations on Fertility & Education

Kelly M. Jones, Mayra Pineda-Torres

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14815

Multi-Dimensional Identities of the Hispanic Population in the United States

Francisca M. Antman

published in: Advancing Anti-racist Economic Research and Policy, Perspectives and Resources on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, Economic Policy Institute, 2022.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14813

Wage Effects of Educational Mismatch According to Workers' Origin: The Role of Demographics and Firm Characteristics

Valentine Jacobs, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral

published in: De Economist, 2022, 170 (4), 459-501

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14771

Comparing Receipt of Social Assistance in Urban and Rural China and the Role of Ethnicity

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai

published in: China: An International Journal (CIJ), 2022, 20 (3), 122 - 139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14766

Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey

Hai-Anh H Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh, Paolo Verme

published in: Health Economics, 2023, 32 (12), 2819-2835