IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Neighbourhood Selection of Non-Western Ethnic Minorities: Testing the Own-Group Effects Hypothesis Using a Conditional Logit Model' in: Environment and Planning A, 2015, 47(5), 1155-1174

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7510

Neighbourhood Effects on Migrant Youth's Educational Commitments: An Enquiry into Personality Differences

Jaap Nieuwenhuis, Pieter Hooimeijer, Maarten van Ham, Wim Meeus

published in: Urban Studies, 2017, 54 (10), 2285-2304

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7484

Superstition in the Housing Market

Nicole M. Fortin, Andrew J. Hill, Jeff Huang

publiished in: Economic Inquiry, 2014, 52(3), 974-993.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7468

Determinants of Immigrant Homeownership: Examining their Changing Role during the Great Recession and Beyond

Kusum Mundra, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: International Migration Review, 2018, 52(3), 648-694

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7461

Gender Differences in Earnings and Labor Supply in Early Career: Evidence from Kosovo's School-to-Work Transition Survey

Francesco Pastore, Sarosh Sattar, Erwin R. Tiongson

published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7448

Ethnic Unemployment Rates and Frictional Markets

Laurent Gobillon, Peter Rupert, Etienne Wasmer

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2014, 79, 108-120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7427

Earnings Growth of Mexican Immigrants: New versus Traditional Destinations

Neeraj Kaushal, Ce Shang

published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7425

Testing for Discrimination against Lesbians of Different Marital Status: A Field Experiment

Doris Weichselbaumer

published in: Industrial Relations, 2015, 54 (1), 131-161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7423

Are You Unhappy Having Minority Co-Workers?

Getinet Astatike Haile

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7366

Language Proficiency of Migrants: The Relation with Job Satisfaction and Matching

Hans Bloemen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7360

Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin: Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores

Ingo E. Isphording

shortened version published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 123 (2) 236–239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7352

The Making of Middle Class in Africa: Evidence from DHS Data

Mthuli Ncube, Abebe Shimeles

published in : Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51 (2), 178 - 193

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7332

Making it Work: The Mixed Embeddedness of Immigrant Entrepreneurs in New Zealand

Trudie Cain, Paul Spoonley

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7304

Empirical Characteristics of Legal and Illegal Immigrants in the U.S.

Vincenzo Caponi, Miana Plesca

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (4), 923-960

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7300

Still Not Allowed on the Bus: It Matters If You're Black or White!

Redzo Mujcic, Paul Frijters

published as 'The Colour of a Free Ride' in: Economic Journal, 2021, 131 (634), 970–999

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7298

The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Aaron K. Chatterji, Kenneth Y. Chay, Robert W. Fairlie

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 32 (3), 507-561

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7289

The Fertility of Recent Immigrants to Canada

Alicia Adsera, Ana Ferrer

revised version published as 'The Fertility of Married Immigrant Women to Canada' in: International Migration Review, 2016, 50 (2), 475 - 505

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7262

Pure Ethnic Gaps in Educational Attainment and School to Work Transitions: When Do They Arise?

Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx

revised version published in: Economics of Education Review, 2013, 35, 276 - 294

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7257

An Equilibrium Search Model of the Labor Market Entry of Second-Generation Immigrants and Ethnic Danes

Nabanita Datta Gupta, Lene Kromann

published as "Differences in the labor market entry of second-generation immigrants and ethnic Danes" in IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7230

Immigrant Concentration in Schools: Consequences for Native and Migrant Students

Nicole Schneeweis

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 35, 63-76

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7227

University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in STEM Fields: Evidence from California

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, V. Joseph Hotz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7203

Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?

Julie Moschion, Domenico Tabasso

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3 (10)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7145

Do Employers Discriminate Less If Vacancies Are Difficult to Fill? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Stijn Baert, Bart Cockx, Niels Gheyle, Cora Vandamme

revised version published as 'Is There Less Discrimination in Occupations Where Recruitment Is Difficult?' in: Industrial and Labor Relations, 2015, 68 (3), 467 - 500

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7136

U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads

Harriet Duleep

published as 'U.S. Immigration Policy at a Crossroads: Should the U.S. Continue Its Family-Friendly Policy?' in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 823-845

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7131

Minority and Immigrant Homeownership Experience: Evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey

Kusum Mundra

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7118

The Value of Earning for Learning: Performance Bonuses in Immigrant Language Training

Olof Aslund, Mattias Engdahl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7062

Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation: A Comparison of Methods

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Barbara Hanel, Duncan McVicar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7040

Understanding the Mechanisms Through Which an Influential Early Childhood Program Boosted Adult Outcomes

James J. Heckman, Rodrigo Pinto, Peter A. Savelyev

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (6), 2052-86

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7020

Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 14, 259-275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7019

English Deficiency and the Native-Immigrant Wage Gap

Alfonso Miranda, Yu Zhu

revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (1), 38-41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7012

Socio-Spatial Transformations, Suburbanisation, and Voting Behaviour in the Vilnius Urban Region

Rūta Ubarevičienė, Donatas Burneika, Maarten van Ham

published as: 'Ethno-political Effects of Suburbanization in the Vilnius Urban Region. An Analysis of Voting Behaviour' in: Journal of Baltic Studies, 2015, 46 (2), 217 - 242

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7000

Affirmative Action and University Fit: Evidence from Proposition 209

Peter Arcidiacono, Esteban Aucejo, Patrick Coate, V. Joseph Hotz

published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, 3, 7 (2014)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6973

Does Labor Diversity Affect Firm Productivity?

Pierpaolo Parrotta, Dario Pozzoli, Mariola Pytlikova

revised version published as 'Labor Diversity and Firm Productivity' in: European Economic Review, 2014, 66, 144 -179

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6972

The Nexus between Labor Diversity and Firm's Innovation

Pierpaolo Parrotta, Dario Pozzoli, Mariola Pytlikova

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (2), 303-364

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6953

Muslims in France: Identifying a Discriminatory Equilibrium

Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (4), 1039-1086

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6939

Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Alexander M. Danzer, Firat Yaman

published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21 (2), 311–325

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6904

The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives

Jennifer Hunt

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2017, 52 (4), 1060-1118

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6903

Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market

Margaret Maurer-Fazio

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:12

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6899

The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America

James P. Smith

published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller. (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, Volume 1A, Chapter 4, pp. 167-195, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6878

Exploring the Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration through a Longitudinal Study on Ageing

Alan Barrett, Irene Mosca

revised version published as 'Early-life Causes and Later-life Consequences of Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults' in: Journal of Population Ageing, 2013, 6 (1), 29-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6857

In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants and its Impact on College Enrollment, Tuition Costs, Student Financial Aid, and Indebtedness

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Chad Sparber

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2014, 49, 11-24.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6853

Access to Public Schools and the Education of Migrant Children in China

Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng

published in: China Economic Review, 2013, 26, 75-88

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6834

Moving to Segregation: Evidence from 8 Italian Cities

Tito Boeri, Marta De Philippis, Eleonora Patacchini, Michele Pellizzari

published in: Economic Journal, 2015, 125, F82-F114.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6817

Young Immigrant Children and their Educational Attainment

Asako Ohinata, Jan C. van Ours

published in: Economics Letters, 2012, 116, 288-290.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6808

Decomposing Differences in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians

Guyonne Kalb, Trinh Le, Boyd Hunter, Felix Leung

published as 'Identifying Important Factors for Closing the Gap in Labour Force Status between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians' in: Economic Record, 2014, 90(291), 536–550

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6796

Can an Ethnic Group Climb Up from the Bottom of the Ladder?

Gil S. Epstein, Erez Siniver

published in: Economics Bulletin, 2012, 32(3), 2414-2441

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6766

An Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Trends in Male Earnings

John V. Winters, Barry Hirsch

revised version published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2014, 60 (4), 930-947

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6743

Macroeconomic Impacts of Canadian Immigration: Results from a Macro-Model

Peter Dungan, Tony Fang, Morley Gunderson

published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations , 2013, 51 (1), 174-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6742

Liability-of-Foreignness Effects on Job Success of Immigrant Job Seekers

Tony Fang, Al-Karim Samnani, Milorad M. Novicevic, Mark N. Bing

published in: Journal of World Business (Columbia); 2013, 48 (1), 98–109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6741

De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico

revised version published in: Constitutional Political Economy, 2017, 28, 321-345

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6731

Ethnic Diversity and Team Performance: A Field Experiment

Sander M. Hoogendoorn, Mirjam C. van Praag

revised version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6696

Kick It Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap

Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne, Simone Schüller

revised version published in: International Migration Review, 2015, 49 (3), 757–789

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6693

Immigrants in Risky Occupations

Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny

published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), The International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, 214-226

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6677

How Immigration May Affect U.S. Native Entrepreneurship: Theoretical Building Blocks and Preliminary Results

Harriet Duleep, David A. Jaeger, Mark Regets

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6667

Measuring Segregation When Hierarchy Matters

Robert M. Hutchens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6644

Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? Evidence from Matched Panel Data

Pedro S. Martins, Matloob Piracha, José Varejão

published in: Economic Modelling, 72(C), 216-222, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6639

The Economic Status of Asian Americans Before and After the Civil Rights Act

Harriet Duleep, Seth G. Sanders

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6638

The Civil Rights Act and the Earnings of Lower Income Hispanic Men in the 1960's

Harriet Duleep, Mark Regets

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6605

Discrimination and the Effects of Drug Testing on Black Employment

Abigail Wozniak

Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 93 (7), 548-566

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6598

Employment Effects of State Legislation against the Hiring of Unauthorized Immigrant Workers

Sarah Bohn, Magnus Lofstrom

published in: David Card and Steven Raphael (eds.) Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality, Russell Sage, 2013

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6561

Do Significant Immigrant Inflows Create Negative Education Impacts? Lessons from the North Carolina Public School System

Timothy M. Diette, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: Education Economics, 2017, 25 (5), 446-461

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6554

Income Inequality and Health: Lessons from a Refugee Residential Assignment Program

Hans Grönqvist, Per Johansson, Susan Niknami

published in: Journal of Health Economics 2012, 31 (4), 617-629

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6547

Determinants of Immigrants' Cash-Welfare Benefits Intake in Spain

Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 167-180

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6543

Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level

Miguel Angel Alcobendas, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Raquel Vegas

published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6542

Moroccans', Ecuadorians' and Romanians' Assimilation in Spain

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Raquel Vegas

substantially revised version published as 'Do Moroccan Migrants to Spain Fare Better or Worse than Other Migrants?' in: Middle East Development Journal, 2014, 6 (2), 308 - 328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6467

Cultural Integration: Experimental Evidence of Changes in Immigrants' Preferences

Lisa A. Cameron, Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan, Marina Zhang

published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 111, 38-58.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6454

Immigration, Obesity and Labor Market Outcomes in the UK

Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, Jennifer L. Kohn

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:2

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6451

Non-Native Speakers of English in the Classroom: What Are the Effects on Pupil Performance?

Charlotte Geay, Sandra McNally, Shqiponja Telhaj

published in: Economic Journal, 2013, 123 (570), F281-F307.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6421

Gender, Economic Development and Islam: A Perspective from France

Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort

published in: Economics and Politics, 2015, 26 (1), 79-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6416

Social Involvement and Level of Household Income among Immigrants: New Evidence from the Israeli Experience

Yuval Arbel, Yossef Tobol, Erez Siniver

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2014, 35(6), 798-816

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6399

Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects

Delia Furtado, Stephen J. Trejo

published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 15, 276-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6394

A Longitudinal Study of Migration Propensities for Mixed Ethnic Unions in England and Wales

Zhiqiang Feng, Maarten van Ham, Paul Boyle, Gillian M. Raab

published as: 'A longitudinal study of migration propensities for mixed ethnic unions in England and Wales' in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2014, 40 (3), 384-403

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6384

Is Religiosity of Immigrants a Bridge or a Buffer in the Process of Integration? A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

Teresa García-Muñoz, Shoshana Neuman

revised version published as 'Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants' Religiosity' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:23. A different revised version published as 'Immigration-Religiosity Intersections at the Two Sides of the Atlantic: Europe and the United States' in: Constant A. and Zimmermann K. (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, 2013, Eward Elgar Publishing

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6369

The Evaluation of Immigration Policies

Ulf Rinne

published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 28, 530-551

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6368

Moroccans' Assimilation in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Raquel Vegas

published in: Middle East Development Journal, 2011, 3 (2), 119-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6363

Living and Working in Ethnic Enclaves: Language Proficiency of Immigrants in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

Julia Beckhusen, Raymond J.G.M. Florax, Thomas de Graaff, Jacques Poot, Brigitte Waldorf

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92(2), 305-328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6350

Human Smuggling

Guido Friebel, Sergei Guriev

published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, pp. 121-133

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6340

Fading Hope in the US

Jo Ritzen, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6314

The Effect of Ethnic Identity on the Employment of Immigrants

Nick Drydakis

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (2), 285-308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6312

Random or Referral Hiring: When Social Connections Matter

Catia Nicodemo, Rosella Nicolini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6300

Migration Policy Can Boost PISA Results: Findings from a Natural Experiment