IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Which immigrant and minority homeownership rates are gaining ground in the US?' in: Journal of Economics and Finance, 2019, 43 (2), 273-297

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10851

Ethnic Capital and Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment

Agnieszka Postepska

published in Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2019, 34 (4), 606-611

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10850

Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo

published as 'Split Families and the Future of Children: Immigration Enforcement and Foster Care Placements' in: AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108, 368-372

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10848

English Proficiency and Test Scores of Immigrant Children in the US

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll

published as 'English Proficiency and Mathematics Test Scores of Immigrant Children in the US' in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 64, 102-113

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10829

Top Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap: Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom

Nicole M. Fortin, Brian Bell, Michael Johannes Böhm

published in: Labour Economics, 2017, 47, 107 - 123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10821

Unordered Monotonicity

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto

published in: Econometrica, 2018, 86 (1), 1 - 35 [revised version available as NBER Working Paper No. 23497]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10803

The Effect of Social Networks on the Economic Outcomes of a Disadvantaged Group: Evidence from Tribal Affiliations

Isabelle Sin, Steven Stillman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10688

Self-Employment Differentials among Foreign-Born STEM and Non-STEM Workers

Zhengyu Cai, John V. Winters

published in: Journal of Business Venturing, 2017, 32 (4), 371-384

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10682

Competitive Preferences and Ethnicity: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh

Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos

published in: Economic Journal, 2020, 130(627), 793-821

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10631

Using a Ratio Test to Estimate Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates

David J. Bjerk, Eric Helland

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10604

The Effect of Far Right Parties on the Location Choice of Immigrants: Evidence from Lega Nord Mayors

Emanuele Bracco, Maria De Paola, Colin P. Green, Vincenzo Scoppa

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 166, 12-26.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10599

Discrimination as Favoritism: The Private Benefits and Social Costs of In-group Favoritism in an Experimental Labor Market

David L. Dickinson, David Masclet, Emmanuel Peterle

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 108, 220-236

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10550

Democratic Involvement and Immigrants' Compliance with the Law

Michaela Slotwinski, Alois Stutzer, Cédric Gorinas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10544

Mandatory Minimums and the Sentencing of Federal Drug Crimes

David J. Bjerk

published in: the Journal of Legal Studies, 2017, 46 (1), 93-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10496

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Non-Work at Work

Daniel S. Hamermesh, Katie R. Genadek, Michael C. Burda

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2021, 74 (2), 272-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10495

Economic Theories of Citizenship?

Don J. DeVoretz, Nahikari Irastorza

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10494

Jobs, Crime, and Votes: A Short-run Evaluation of the Refugee Crisis in Germany

Markus Gehrsitz, Martin Ungerer

published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (355), 592 - 626

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10459

Stereotype Threat, Role Models, and Demographic Mismatch in an Elite Professional School Setting

Christopher Birdsall, Seth Gershenson, Raymond Zuniga

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2020, 15(3): 457-486.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10445

International Migration, Return Migration, and their Effects: A Comprehensive Review on the Romanian Case

Remus Gabriel Anghel, Alina Botezat, Anatolie Coșciug, Ioana Manafi, Monica Roman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10423

Age at Immigration Matters for Labor Market Integration: The Swedish Example

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Hanna Mac Innes, Torun Österberg

published in IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2017, 7:1

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10419

Does Information Change Attitudes Towards Immigrants? Representative Evidence from Survey Experiments

Alexis Grigorieff, Christopher Roth, Diego Ubfal

published in: Demography, 2020, 57, 1111-1143

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10417

Minority Salience and Political Extremism

Tommaso Colussi, Ingo E. Isphording, Nico Pestel

revised version published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021, 13 (3), 237-271

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10416

Excess Mortality, Institutionalization and Homelessness Among Status Indians in Canada

Randall K. Q. Akee, Donn. L. Feir

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10385

Inter-ethnic Fertility Spillovers and the Role of Forward-looking Behavior: Evidence from Peninsular Malaysia

Emily A. Beam, Slesh Shrestha

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10381

The Economic Impact of East?West Migration on the European Union

Martin Kahanec, Mariola Pytlikova

published in: Empirica, 2017, 44 (3), 407-434.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10328

Global Talent Flows

Sari Pekkala Kerr, William Kerr, Caglar Ozden, Christopher Parsons

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives; 2016, 30 (4), 83 - 106

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10319

More than Just Friends? School Peers and Adult Interracial Relationships

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

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2019, 37(3), 663-713

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10307

Reforming the Integration of Refugees: The Swedish Experience

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Alma W. Lanninger, Marianne Sundström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10306

Silence of the Innocents: Illegal Immigrants' Underreporting of Crime and their Victimization

Stefano Comino, Giovanni Mastrobuoni, Antonio Nicolò

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2020, 39 (4), 1214 - 1245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10303

Moving Up or Down? Immigration and the Selection of Natives across Occupations and Locations

Javier Ortega, Gregory Verdugo

revised version published as 'Who stays and who leaves? Immigration and the selection of natives across locations' in Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (2), 221 - 260

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10269

Adherence to Cultural Norms and Economic Incentives: Evidence from Fertility Timing Decisions

Bastien Chabé-Ferret

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 162, 24 - 48

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10234

On the Economics and Politics of Refugee Migration

Christian Dustmann, Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini, Luigi Minale, Uta Schönberg

published in: Economic Policy, 2017, 32 (91), 497–550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10230

Earnings among Nine Ethnic Minorities and the Han Majority in China's Cities

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang

published in Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, 2017, 22 (3), 525-546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10217

Discrimination against Female Migrants Wearing Headscarves

Doris Weichselbaumer

pubished in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2020, 73 (3), 600-627

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10216

Trajectories of Neighborhood Change: Spatial Patterns of Increasing Ethnic Diversity

Merle Zwiers, Maarten van Ham, David Manley

published in: Population, Space and Place, 2018, 24 (2), e2094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10214

Linguistic and Economic Adjustment among Immigrants in Israel

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. 10212

The Labor Market Consequences of Refugee Supply Shocks

George J. Borjas, Joan Monras

published in: Economic Policy, 2017, 32 (91), 361 - 413

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10198

Identity, Perceptions and Institutions: Caste Differences in Earnings from Self-Employment in India

Deepti Goel, Ashwini Deshpande

published as 'Social identity and perceived income adequacy' in: Review of Development Economics, 2020, 24 (2), 339-361

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10185

The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Health of Working Teenagers

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

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24 (16), 1127 - 1130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10165

Teacher Expectations Matter

Nicholas W. Papageorge, Seth Gershenson, Kyungmin Kang

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2020, 102(2): 234-251.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10159

Wage Discrimination against Immigrants: Measurement with Firm-Level Productivity Data

Stephan Kampelmann, François Rycx

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 5 (15), 1-24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10150

Match or Mismatch? Automatic Admissions and College Preferences of Low- and High-Income Students

Jane Arnold Lincove, Kalena E. Cortes

published in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2019, 41(1), 98-123

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10147

Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance

David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Umut Özek, Paola Sapienza

published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 272-309

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10146

EthniCity of Leisure: A Domains Approach to Ethnic Integration During Free Time Activities

Kristiina Kamenik, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham

published in: Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, 2019, 110 (3), 289 - 302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10145

Can Authorization Reduce Poverty among Undocumented Immigrants? Evidence from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Francisca M. Antman

published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 147:1-4

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10144

Schooling and Labor Market Effects of Temporary Authorization: Evidence from DACA

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Francisca M. Antman

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30(1): 339-73

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10143

Mapping Experiences and Research about Unaccompanied Refugee Minors in Sweden and Other Countries

Aycan Celikaksoy, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10134

Social Norms and Teenage Smoking: The Dark Side of Gender Equality

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

substantially revised version published as 'Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Social Norms and Teenage Smoking' in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 222, 122-132

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10119

Migration Experience and Access to a First Job in Uganda

Delphine Boutin

published in: International Labour Review, 2018, 157, 631 -650

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10101

Long-term Consequences of Workplace Bullying on Sickness Absence

Tine Louise Mundbjerg Eriksen, Annie Hogh, Åse Marie Hansen

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 43, 129 - 150

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10073

How Do Pre-School and/or School-Age Children Affect Parents' Likelihood of Migration and Off-Farm Work in Rural China's Minority Regions?

Sai Ding, Xiao-Yuan Dong, Margaret Maurer-Fazio

published online in: Feminist Economics, 2018, 24 (2), 77 - 99

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10065

The Impact of Immigrant Peers on Native Students' Academic Achievement in Countries Where Parents of Immigrants Are Relatively Skilled

Kelvin Seah

published in: Australian Economic Review, 2021, 54(1), 94-116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10063

Can Immigrants Insure against Shocks as Well as the Native-born?

Asadul Islam, Steven Stillman, Christopher Worswick

published in. Applied Economics, 2018, 50, 5302 - 5315

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10062

Ethnic Attrition and the Observed Health of Later-Generation Mexican Americans

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

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 467-471

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10032

Immigrant Educators and Students' Academic Achievement

Kelvin Seah

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 51C, 152-169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10030

Immigration Enforcement and Childhood Poverty in the United States

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

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2018, 158, 63-78.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9926

How Forced Displacements Caused by a Violent Conflict Affect Wages in Colombia

José Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal, José Alberto Molina, Edgar Silva Quintero

published as 'On the relationship between violent conflict and wages in Colombia' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (4), 473-489

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9883

Mining in Arctic and Non-Arctic Regions: A Socioeconomic Assessment

Anders Frederiksen, Maja Due Kadenic

published as: 'Mining the North: Local Impacts' in: Labour Economics, 2020, 63, 101790

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9874

Social Capital, Entrepreneurship and Living Standards: Differences between Immigrants and the Native Born

Matthew Roskruge, Jacques Poot, Laura King

published in: H Westlund and JP Larsson (eds.), Handbook of Social Capital and Regional Development, Cheltenham UK: Edward Elgar, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9837

Residential Segregation from Generation to Generation: Intergenerational Association in Socio-Spatial Context among Visible Minorities and the Majority Population in Metropolitan Sweden

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Katarina Katz, Torun Österberg

published in Population, Space and Place, 2017, 23 (4), e2028

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9792

Please Call Me John: Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930

Pedro Carneiro, Sokbae Lee, Hugo Reis

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101778

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9790

Exposure to Refugees and Voting for the Far-Right: (Unexpected) Results from Austria

Andreas Steinmayr

published as 'Contact versus Exposure: Refugee Presence and Voting for the Far-Right' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (2), 310–327

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9763

Immigrant Volunteering: A Way Out of Labour Market Discrimination?

Stijn Baert, Suncica Vujic

revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2016, 146, 95 - 98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9761

Racial Differences in Labor Market Transitions and the Great Recession

Kenneth A. Couch, Robert W. Fairlie, Huanan Xu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9760

Social Contacts, Dutch Language Proficiency and Immigrant Economic Performance in the Netherlands: A Longitudinal Study

Barry R. Chiswick, Zhiling Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9759

Open Borders, Transport Links and Local Labor Markets

Olof Aslund, Mattias Engdahl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9727

Integration of Ethnic Minorities: Do They Divorce as Natives Do?

Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, Jens Bonke

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9672

Islamism and Gender Relations in the Muslim World as Reflected in Recent World Values Survey Data

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

published in: Society and Economy, 2016, 38 (4), 427–453

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9664

The Acceleration of Immigrant Unhealthy Assimilation

Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella

published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (4), 511-518

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9663

New Perspectives on Ethnic Segregation over Time and Space: A Domains Approach

Maarten van Ham, Tiit Tammaru

published in: Urban Geography, 2016, 37 (7), 953-962

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9662

Intergenerational Transmission of Skills and Differences in Labor Market Outcomes for Blacks and Whites

Tsunao Okumura, Emiko Usui

published in: Research in Labor Economics, Special Issue on Inequality: Causes and Consequences, 2016, 43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9661

Gender and Racial Differences in Peer Effects of Limited English Students: A Story of Language or Ethnicity?

Timothy M. Diette, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2017, 6:2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9660

When Do Gender Wage Differences Emerge? A Study of Azerbaijan's Labor Market

Francesco Pastore, Sarosh Sattar, Nistha Sinha, Erwin R. Tiongson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9602

Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia

Kadi Mägi, Kadri Leetmaa, Tiit Tammaru, Maarten van Ham

published as: 'Types of spatial mobility and change in people's ethnic residential contexts' in: Demographic Research, 2016, 34, 1161-1192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9598

Can Admissions Percent Plans Lead to Better Collegiate Fit for Minority Students?

Kalena E. Cortes, Jane Arnold Lincove

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 348-354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9544

Ethnic Diversity and Trust: New Evidence from Australian Data

Silvia Mendolia, Alex Tosh, Oleg Yerokhin

published in Economic Record, 2016, 92 (299): 648-665.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9536

Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion

Stijn Baert

revised version published as 'Hiring a Gay Man, Taking a Risk?: A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion' in: Journal of Homosexuality, 2018, 65 (8), 1015 - 1031

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9517

Homeownership of Immigrants in France: Selection Effects Related to International Migration Flows

Laurent Gobillon, Matthieu Solignac

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2020, 20(2), 355-396

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9513

Local-Level Immigration and Life Satisfaction: The EU Enlargement Experience in England and Wales

Artjoms Ivlevs, Michail Veliziotis

published in: Environment and Planning A, 2018, 50 (1), 175-193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9496

Improving the Integration of Refugees: An Early Evaluation of a Swedish Reform

Pernilla Andersson Joona, Alma W. Lanninger, Marianne Sundström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9495

Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S.: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Neeraj Kaushal, Yao Lu, Nicole Denier, Julia Shu-Huah Wang, Stephen J. Trejo

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (4), 1249-1277.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9420

Do E-Verify Mandates Improve Labor Market Outcomes of Low-Skilled Native and Legal Immigrant Workers?

Sarah Bohn, Magnus Lofstrom, Steven Raphael

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 81 (4), 960–979

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9382

Do Gays Shy Away from Competition? Do Lesbians Compete Too Much?

Thomas Buser, Lydia Geijtenbeek, Erik Plug

published as 'Sexual Orientation, Competitiveness and Income' in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 151, 191 - 198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9355

Sex, Race, and Job Satisfaction among Highly Educated Workers

Joni Hersch, Jean Xiao

published in: Southern Economic Journal, 2016, 83 (1), 1 - 24

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9354

Discrimination against Migrants in Austria: An Experimental Study

Doris Weichselbaumer

published in: German Economic Review, 2017, 18 (2), 237-265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9348

The Impact of Syrian Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes in Turkey: Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Design

Evren Ceritoglu, H. Burcu Gurcihan Yunculer, Huzeyfe Torun, Semih Tumen

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2017, 6:5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9343

Cultural and Ethnic Differences in the Transitions from Work to 'Retirement' of Rural Elders in China’s Minority Regions

Rachel Connelly, Margaret Maurer-Fazio

published in: B. Gustafsson, R. Hasmath. S. Ding (eds), Ethnicity and Inequality in China, New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2021, 82-109. / published in Chinese, Beijing, 2017, 56-83.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9341

The Role of Social Networks in Cultural Assimilation

Thierry Verdier, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, 97, 15-39.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9328

Fetal Malnutrition and Academic Success: Evidence from Muslim Immigrants in Denmark

Jane Greve, Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen, Erdal Tekin

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 60, 20 - 35

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9307

The Academic Progress of Hispanic Immigrants

Marie C. Hull

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2017, 57, 91-110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9306

The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors and the Swedish Labour Market

Aycan Celikaksoy, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9290

Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the US

Corrado Giulietti, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos

published as 'Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services: A Field Experiment in the United States' in: Journal of the European Economic Association. 2019, 17 (1), 165 - 204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9282

Relative Income and Life Satisfaction of Turkish Immigrants: The Impact of a Collectivistic Culture

Devrim Dumludag, Ozge Gokdemir, Maarten C.M. Vendrik

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9202

Who Believes in Me? The Effect of Student-Teacher Demographic Match on Teacher Expectations

Seth Gershenson, Stephen B. Holt, Nicholas W. Papageorge

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2016, 52, 209-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9169

Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application

Sandra E. Black, Kalena E. Cortes, Jane Arnold Lincove

published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2020, 15 (2), 209-240