IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Police trust and domestic violence among immigrants: evidence from VAWA self-petitions' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (2), 395 - 422

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12705

The Heterogeneous Effects of Workers' Countries of Birth on Over-Education

Valentine Jacobs, Benoît Mahy, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral

published as 'Over-education Among Immigrants: The Role of Demographics, Time, and Firm Characteristics' in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (1), 61-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12704

New Evidence of Generational Progress for Mexican Americans

Brian Duncan, Jeffrey Grogger, Ana Sofia Leon, Stephen J. Trejo

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101771

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12689

The Labor Market Effects of Mexican Repatriations: Longitudinal Evidence from the 1930s

Jongkwan Lee, Giovanni Peri, Vasil Yasenov

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 205, 104558

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12645

Behind the Veil: The Effect of Banning the Islamic Veil in Schools

Eric Maurin, Nicolas Navarrete H.

published in: Economic Policy, 2023, 38 (113), 63-98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12641

Fertility Implications of Policy Granting Legal Status Based on Offspring's Nationality

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cristina Borra, Noelia Rivera Garrido

published as 'Fertility implications of family-based regularizations' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2023, 23 (2), 449 - 484

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12634

Divergent: The Time Path of Legacy and Athlete Admissions at Harvard

Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2024, 59 (3). 653-683

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12633

Legacy and Athlete Preferences at Harvard

Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (1), 133-156

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12621

Linguistic Diversity and Workplace Productivity

Harald Dale-Olsen, Henning Finseraas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12615

Incentives to Identify: A Comment

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan

shorter version published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 101 (4), 742

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12606

Minimum Wages and the Health and Access to Care of Immigrants' Children

Susan L. Averett, Julie K. Smith, Yang Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12555

September 11 and the Rise of Necessity Self-Employment among Mexican Immigrants

Chunbei Wang, Magnus Lofstrom

published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2020, 46 (1), 5 - 33

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12551

Does Halting Refugee Resettlement Reduce Crime? Evidence from the United States Refugee Ban

Daniel Masterson, Vasil Yasenov

published in: American Political Science Review, 2021, 115 (3), 1066 - 1073

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12536

Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: The Long-Term Impact of the Resettlement of the Sudetenland on Residential Migration

Martin Guzi, Peter Huber, Stepan Mikula

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 126, 12536

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12516

Symbolism Matters: The Effect of Same-Sex Marriage Legalization on Partnership Stability

Shuai Chen, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178, 44-58.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12469

Immigration and Crimes against Natives: The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany

Yue Huang, Michael Kvasnicka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12368

Who Is in Favor of Immigration

Gil S. Epstein, Shirit Katav-Herz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12360

Coming Out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change

Raquel Fernández, Sahar Parsa, Martina Viarengo

published online as 'Coming out in America: thirty years of cultural change' in: Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, 18 April 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12358

The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited

Kai Ingwersen, Stephan L. Thomsen

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2021, 19, 825-854.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12295

Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.

Christina A. Houseworth, Barry R. Chiswick

published in: Review of the Economics of the Household, 2020, 18, 1-25

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12274

Ethnic Minority Youths in the Labour Markets in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

Susan Niknami, Lena Schröder, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12229

Refugees Welcome? Understanding the Regional Heterogeneity of Anti-Foreigner Hate Crimes in Germany

Horst Entorf, Martin Lange

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2023, 101, 103913

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12202

Peer Diversity, College Performance and Educational Choices

Arnaud Chevalier, Ingo E. Isphording, Elena Lisauskaite

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 64, 101833

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12190

Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector

J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee

published in: I. Ganguli, S. Kahn, M.MacGarvie (eds.), The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 149-172.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12131

Employment Discrimination against Indigenous Peoples in the United States: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Patrick Button, Brigham Walker

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101851.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12118

Selection and Educational Attainment: Why Some Children Are Left Behind? Evidence from a Middle-Income Country

Luciana Méndez-Errico, Xavier Ramos

published in: Education Economics, 2022, 30 (6), 624-643

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12104

Parental Ethnic Identity and Child Development

Stuart Campbell, Ana Nuevo-Chiquero, Gurleen Popli, Anita Ratcliffe

published as 'Parental identity and child test scores' in: Fiscal Studies, 2020, 41 (4), 851 - 881

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12101

Labor Market Discrimination and the Macroeconomy

Muhammad Asali, Rusudan Gurashvili

revised version published in: Economics of Transition & Institutional Change, 2020, 28 (3), 515-533.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12049

Labor Market Impacts of States Issuing of Driving Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Almudena Sevilla

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63,101805

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12041

Average Gaps and Oaxaca's Blinder Decompositions: A Cautionary Tale about Regression Estimates of Racial Differences in Labor Market Outcomes

Tymon Sloczynski

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 3), 705–729

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12032

The Impact of Brexit on International Students' Return Intentions

Jane Falkingham, Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba, Chuhong Wang

published in: Manchester School, 2021, 89 (2), 139-171.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12030

Occupational Recognition and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes

Herbert Brücker, Albrecht Glitz, Adrian Lerche, Agnese Romiti

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2021, 39 (2), 497-525

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11997

Taking Time Use Seriously: Income, Wages and Price Discrimination

Daniel S. Hamermesh, Jeff E. Biddle

published as 'Income, wages and household production theory' in: Economics Letters, 2020, 192, 109188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11981

Revealing Stereotypes: Evidence from Immigrants in Schools

Alberto Alesina, Michela Carlana, Eliana La Ferrara, Paolo Pinotti

published in: American Economic Review, 2024, 114 (7), 1915 - 1948

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11980

Does Education Affect Attitudes Towards Immigration? Evidence from Germany

Shushanik Margaryan, Annemarie Paul, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2021, 56 (2), 446-479

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11979

The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households: Evidence from Italy

Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti, Anzelika Zaiceva

substantially revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2023, 9, 117-174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11959

International Migration and the Distribution of Income in New Zealand Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Areas

Omoniyi Alimi, David C. Maré, Jacques Poot

published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2022, 56 (3), 272-295

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11923

Assortative Matching or Exclusionary Hiring? The Impact of Firm Policies on Racial Wage Differences in Brazil

Francois Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, Edson Severnini, David Card

published in: American Economic Review, 2021, 111 (10), 3418 -3457

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11909

Race-Blind Admissions, School Segregation, and Student Outcomes: Evidence from Race-Blind Magnet School Lotteries

Jason B. Cook

published as 'Race-blind admissions, school segregation, and student outcomes' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11906

Does Migration Motive Matter for Migrants' Employment Outcomes? The Case of Belgium

Dries Lens, Ive Marx, Suncica Vujic

published in: Christiane Timmerman, Noel Clycq, François Levrau, Lore Van Praag, and Dirk Vanheule (eds.), Migration and Integration in Flanders: Multidisciplinary PerspectivesLeuven University Press, 2018, 245–272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11905

Is Quick Formal Access to the Labor Market Enough? Refugees' Labor Market Integration in Belgium

Dries Lens, Ive Marx, Suncica Vujic

revised version published as 'Double Jeopardy: How Refugees Fare in One European Labor Market' in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2019, 10 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11904

Immigration and Social Mobility

Maria F. Hoen, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

published as 'Immigration and economic mobility' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1589 -1630

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11781

The Impact of Xenophobic Violence on the Integration of Immigrants

Max F. Steinhardt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11779

Naturalization and Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Regina T. Riphahn, Salwan Saif

published in: Labour, 2019, 33 (1), 48 - 76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11724

The Skill Development of Children of Immigrants

Marie C. Hull, Jonathan Norris

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 78, 102036

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11694

Independent Thinking and Hard Working, or Caring and Well Behaved? Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Gender Identity Norms

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anastasia Terskaya

substantially revised version published as 'Gender Norms in High School: Impacts on Risky Behaviors from Adolescence to Adulthood' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 196, 429-456

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11688

Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance

Thomas Cornelissen, Christian Dustmann, Anna Raute, Uta Schönberg

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 126 (6), 2356–2409

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11685

Do You Speak My Language? The Effect of Sharing a Teacher's Native Language on Student Achievement

Kelvin Seah

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2021, 88(1), 245-273

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11682

Asian Segregation and Scholastic Achievement: Evidence from Primary Schools in New York City

Rocco d'Este, Elias Einiö

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2021,83, 102129.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11680

Occupational Barriers and the Labor Market Penalty from Lack of Legal Status

Francesc Ortega, Amy Hsin

published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11609

The Long-Term Outcomes of Refugees: Tracking the Progress of the East African Asians

Jake Anders, Simon Burgess, Jonathan Portes

published in: Journal of Refugee Studies, 2021, 34 (2), 1967-1998

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11608

Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Alexander M. Danzer, Carsten Feuerbaum, Marc Piopiunik, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1297 - 1344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11574

Gay Glass Ceilings: Sexual Orientation and Workplace Authority in the UK

Christopher S. Carpenter, Jeff Frank, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Matt L. Huffman

revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 159, 167-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11552

Economic Resources, Financial Aid and Remittances

Simon Pierre Boulanger Martel, Lisa Pelling, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11527

Can Public Housing Decrease Segregation? Lessons and Challenges from Non-European Immigration in France

Gregory Verdugo, Sorana Toma

published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (5), 1803-1828

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11524

Language Assimilation and Performance in Achievement Tests among Immigrant Children: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Sankar Mukhopadhyay

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2020, 75, 101970

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11520

L'union fait la force? Evidence for Wage Discrimination in Firms with High Diversity

Elena Grinza, Stephan Kampelmann, François Rycx

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2020, 18 (2), 181-211

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11485

The Impact of Language on Socioeconomic Integration of Immigrants

Aslan Zorlu, Joop Hartog

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11482

Immigrant Responses to Social Insurance Generosity

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, 101854

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11469

The Effects of DACA on Health Insurance, Access to Care, and Health Outcomes

Osea Giuntella, Jakub Lonsky

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 72, 102320

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11436

Conformism, Social Norms and the Dynamics of Assimilation

Gonzalo Olcina, Fabrizio Panebianco, Yves Zenou

published as 'Conformism, social pressure, and the dynamics of integration' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2024, 2020, 279 - 304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11418

The Occupational Status of Jews in the United States on the Eve of the US Civil War

Barry R. Chiswick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11417

Anti-Muslim Discrimination in France: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Marie-Anne Valfort

published in: World Development, 2020, 135, 105022

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11371

Minority Groups and Success in Election Primaries

Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

published as 'Minorities and Political Success' in: Economics Bulletin, 2018, 38 (1), 657-671

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11368

Deprivation, Segregation, and Socioeconomic Class of UK Immigrants: Does English Proficiency Matter?

Yu Aoki, Lualhati Santiago

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11344

A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University-Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States: Does Policy Matter?

Andrew Clarke, Ana Ferrer, Mikal Skuterud

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37 (S2), S443–S490

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11333

(The Struggle for) Refugee Integration into the Labour Market: Evidence from Europe

Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini, Luigi Minale

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (2), 351–393

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11331

The Effect of Language Training on Immigrants' Economic Integration: Empirical Evidence from France

Alexia Lochmann, Hillel Rapoport, Biagio Speciale

published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 113, 265-296.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11307

Shift-Share Instruments and the Impact of Immigration

David A. Jaeger, Joakim Ruist, Jan Stuhler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11306

Imputation Match Bias in Immigrant Wage Convergence

Joni Hersch, Jennifer Bennett Shinall

published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (4), 1475-1485

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11286

Can Quotas Increase the Supply of Candidates for Higher-Level Positions? Evidence from Local Government in India

Stephen D. O'Connell

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102 (1), 65–78.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11285

Does Labor Market Tightness Affect Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring?

Magnus Carlsson, Luca Fumarco, Dan-Olof Rooth

revised version published as 'Ethnic discrimination in hiring, labour market tightness and the business cycle - Evidence from field experiments.' in: Applied Economics, 2018, 50 (24), 2652 - 2663

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11284

Neighborhood Signaling Effects, Commuting Time, and Employment: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Magnus Carlsson, Abdulaziz Abrar Reshid, Dan-Olof Rooth

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2018, 39 (4), 534-549.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11272

The Economic and Social Determinants of Migrants' Well-Being during the Global Financial Crisis

Alexander M. Danzer, Barbara Dietz

published as 'Migrants’ well-being during the global financial crisis: economic and social predictors' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (3), 770-787

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11241

Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants

Massimiliano Tani

published in: International Migration Review, 2020, 54 (1), 35-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11221

Financial Stress and Indigenous Australians

Robert Breunig, Syed Hasan, Boyd Hunter

published in: Economic Record, 2019, 95 (308), 34 - 57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11217

The Native-Migrant Gap in the Progression into and through Upper-Secondary Education

Stefan C. Wolter, Maria Zumbühl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11216