Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18462

Work Authorization Delays and Economic Integration of Asylum Seekers in the United States

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Jose R. Bucheli

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18446

Anticipating State Action: Risk Perceptions and Consumption under Immigration Enforcement

Alberto Ciancio, Camilo Garcia-Jimeno

IZA Discussion Paper No. 18374

Birthright Citizenship and Youth Crime

Leander Andres, Stefan Bauernschuster, Gordon B. Dahl, Helmut Rainer, Simone Schüller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17369

What Has Happened to EUSS Applications from Wales since June 2021?

Stephen Drinkwater, Matt Curds, Ffion Lloyd-Williams

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16968

DACA, Mobility Investments, and Economic Outcomes of Immigrants and Natives

Jimena Villanueva Kiser, Riley Wilson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16935

The Externalities of Immigration Policies on Migration Flows: The Case of an Asylum Policy

Lucas Guichard, Joël Machado

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2025, 25 (1), 59–74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16884

Immigrant Key Workers: Their Contribution to Europe's COVID-19 Response

Francesco Fasani, Jacopo Mazza

forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Inequality

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16850

Is Intent to Migrate Irregularly Responsive to Recent German Asylum Policy Adjustments?

Bernd Beber, Cara Ebert, Maximiliane Sievert

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. 15786

Citizenship and Integration

Christina Gathmann, Julio Garbers

published in: Labour Economics, 2023, 82, 102343

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. 15624

Spillover Effects of Immigration Policies on Children's Human Capital

Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Bernhard Schmidpeter

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. 15335

The Crime Effect of Refugees

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Naci Mocan, Semih Tumen, Belgi Turan

published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2024, 43 (2), 472-508

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15189

Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers

Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Roberto Nistico

published in: Demography, 2025, 62 (3), 811–837.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15134

Facing Displacement and a Global Pandemic: Evidence from a Fragile State

Michele Di Maio, Francesco Fasani, Valerio Leone Sciabolazza, Vasco Molini

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (3), 460-485

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. 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. 14384

More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth

Christina Felfe, Martin G. Kocher, Helmut Rainer, Judith Saurer, Thomas Siedler

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 200, 104448

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13930

Immigration Policy and the Rise of Self-Employment among Mexican Immigrants

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Magnus Lofstrom, Chunbei Wang

published in: ILR Review, LR Review, 2022, 75 (5), 1189-1214

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13908

Immigration Enforcement and Infant Health

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Brandyn F. Churchill, Yang Song

published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 8 (3), 323–358

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13748

U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Fertility

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo

published as 'Immigration policy and fertility: Evidence from undocumented migrants in the U.S' ´in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 189, 274 - 297

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13647

Institutional Discrimination and Assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

Shuo Chen, Bin Xie

published in: Explorations in Economic History, 2024, 94, 101615

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13149

Lift the Ban? Initial Employment Restrictions and Refugee Labour Market Outcomes

Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini, Luigi Minale

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19 (5), 2803 - 2854

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13018

Do Processing Times Affect the Distribution of Asylum Seekers across Europe?

Simone Bertoli, Herbert Brücker, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga

revised version published as 'Do applications respond to changes in asylum policies in European countries?' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 93, 103771

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12876

Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Chunbei Wang

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 190, 104242

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12721

Police Trust and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Immigration Policies

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo

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. 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. 12635

Terrorism, Immigration and Asylum Approval

Abel Brodeur, Taylor Wright

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2019, 168, 119-131

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12413

Immigrants' Deportations, Local Crime and Police Effectiveness

Annie Laurie Hines, Giovanni Peri

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. 12029

The Effect of Increasing Immigration Enforcement on the Labor Supply of High-Skilled Citizen Women

Chloe N. East, Andrea Velasquez

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11486

The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement

Chloe N. East, Philip Luck, Hani Mansour, Andrea Velasquez

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (4), 957–996

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11214

The Effects of Immigration Quotas on Wages, the Great Black Migration, and Industrial Development

Bin Xie

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2025, 53 (1), 25-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11145

The Changing Family Structure of American Children with Unauthorized Parents

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo

published as 'Immigration Enforcement and Children's Living Arrangements' in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2019, 38 (1), 11-40

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. 10685

Interstate Mobility Patterns of Likely Unauthorized Immigrants: Evidence from Arizona

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Fernando A. Lozano

published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2019, 2, 109 - 120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10602

On the Implications of Immigration Policy Restricting Citizenship: Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Carlos Gratereaux Hernández, Susan Pozo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10368

Scholarship, the Law and Immigration Policy

Don J. DeVoretz

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. 10235

Immigrant Crime and Legal Status: Evidence from Repeated Amnesty Programs

Francesco Fasani

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18 (4), 887–914

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. 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. 9538

Can Selective Immigration Policies Reduce Migrants' Quality?

Simone Bertoli, Vianney Dequiedt, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 119, 100-109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8686

Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Results from a Pilot Project in Vietnam

Ngan Dinh, Conor Hughes, James W. Hughes, Margaret Maurer-Fazio

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8576

Understanding the Role of Immigrants' Legal Status: Evidence from Policy Experiments

Francesco Fasani

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61(3-4), 722-763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8151

Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program

Carlo Devillanova, Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71 (4), 853-881

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8064

Returns to Citizenship? Evidence from Germany's Recent Immigration Reforms

Christina Gathmann, Nicolas Keller

revised version published in: Economic Journal, 2018, 128 (616), 3141-3181

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7258

Fifty Years of Compositional Changes in U.S. Out-Migration, 1908-1957

Costanza Biavaschi