IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17382

The Labor Market Attainment of Immigrants in the Antebellum United States

Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17275

Reducing the Gender Digital Divide Amongst Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Nick Drydakis

forthcoming in: G. Meramveliotakis and M. Manioudis (eds). Sustainable Economic Development Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism, London: Routledge, 2025, 237-264.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17266

Immigrants and the Portuguese Labor Market: Threat or Advantage?

Parisa Ghasemi, Paulino Teixeira, Carlos Carreira

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17195

Ethnic Identity and Anti-immigrant Sentiment: Evidence from Proposition 187

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17035

Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in the Netherlands

Roel van Elk, Egbert L. W. Jongen, Patrick Koot, Alice Zulkarnain

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17027

Immigrant Overeducation across Generations: The Role of Gender and Part-Time Work

Kevin Pineda-Hernández, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral

forthcoming in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16965

The Effect of Ukrainian Refugees on the Local Labour Markets: The Case of Czechia

Agnieszka Postepska, Anastasiia Voloshyna

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16899

The Extent and Consequences of Teacher Biases against Immigrants

Ellen Sahlström, Mikko Silliman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16698

The Gendered Impact of In-State Tuition Policies on Undocumented Immigrants' College Enrollment, Graduation, and Employment

Susan L. Averett, Cynthia Bansak, Grace Condon, Eva Dziadula

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16668

Estimating Returns to Schooling and Experience: A History of Thought

Barry R. Chiswick

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16548

Intermarriage amid Immigration Status Uncertainty: Evidence from DACA

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Chunbei Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16389

The Role of Firms and Job Mobility in the Assimilation of Immigrants: Former Soviet Union Jews in Israel 1990–2019

Jaime Arellano-Bover, Shmuel San

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16329

Exposure to the One-Child Policy and Fertility among Chinese Immigrants to the US

Siyuan Lin, Laura M. Argys, Susan L. Averett

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16314

Is Self-Employment for Migrants? Evidence from Italy

Marianna Brunetti, Anzelika Zaiceva

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16297

Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants

George J. Borjas, Anthony Edo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16219

Examining the Determinants of Managers' Hiring Attitudes Towards Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey

Tony Fang, Tingting Zhang, John Hartley

published online in: Journal of Immigrants and Refugee Studies, 11 June 2023

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. 15994

Hit Where It Hurts: Healthcare Access and Intimate Partner Violence

Cristina Bellés Obrero, Caoimhe T. Rice, Judit Vall-Castello

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15659

Naturalization and Immigrants' Health

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll

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. 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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15393

Second-Generation Immigrants and Native Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Europe

Oscar Barrera, Isabelle Bensidoun, Anthony Edo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15310

Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland's Integration Plans

Hanna Onerva Pesola, Matti Sarvimäki

This version: August 2024, forthcoming in: the Review of Economics and Statistics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15226

Employer Attitudes and the Hiring of Immigrants and International Students: Evidence from a Survey of Employers in Canada

Tony Fang, Na Xiao, Jane Zhu, John Hartley

published in: Canadian Public Policy, 2022, 48,17-37.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15189

Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers

Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Roberto Nistico

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15162

The Occupations of Free Women and Substitution with Enslaved Workers in the Antebellum United States

Barry R. Chiswick, RaeAnn Halenda Robinson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15074

Does Over-Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally? The Moderating Role of Workers' Origin and Immigrants' Background

Valentine Jacobs, François Rycx, Mélanie Volral

published in: Education Economics, 2023, 31 (6), 698-724

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14941

Too Cold to Venture There? January Temperature and Immigrant Self-Employment across the United States

Jun Yeong Lee, John V. Winters

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. 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. 14728

The Impact of Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Their Integration in the Host Country

Pia Schilling, Steven Stillman

published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 87, 102465

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14700

Adverse Working Conditions and Immigrants' Physical Health and Depression Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study in Greece

Nick Drydakis

published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2022, 95 (2), 539 - 556

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14646

De Facto Immigration Enforcement, ICE Raid Awareness, and Worker Engagement

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Francisca M. Antman

published in: Economic Inquiry, 2022, 60 (1), 373 - 391

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14550

Gender Norms and Intimate Partner Violence

Libertad González, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 178 (C), 223-248.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14328

How to Improve Worker-Firm Matching: Evidence from a Temporary Foreign Worker Market

Yoon Y. Cho, Soohyung Lee

published in: Korean Economic Review, 2021, 37 (2), 419-454

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14152

How Do Low-Skilled Immigrants Adjust to Chinese Import Shocks? Evidence Using English Language Proficiency

Delia Furtado, Haiyang Kong

published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104681

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14088

Over-Education and Immigrant Earnings: A Penalized Quantile Panel Regression Analysis

Sholeh A. Maani, Le Wen

published in: Applied Economics, 2021, 53 (24), 2771 - 2790

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13933

Mobile Applications Aiming to Facilitate Immigrants' Societal Integration and Overall Level of Integration, Health and Mental Health: Does Artificial Intelligence Enhance Outcomes?

Nick Drydakis

published in: Computers in Human Behavior, 2021, 117, 106661

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. 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. 13855

Economic Assimilation of the 'Third Generation': An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective on Immigration and Integration

Aslan Zorlu, Wouter van Gent

published as ' Economic Assimilation of the 'Third Generation': An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective' in: International Migration Review, 2024, 58 (2), 734-763.

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. 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. 13650

Who are the Essential and Frontline Workers?

Francine D. Blau, Josefine Koebe, Pamela Meyerhofer

published in: Business Economics, 2021, 56, 168–178

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13602

The Relationship between Early-Life Conditions in the Home Country and Adult Outcomes among Child Immigrants in the United States

Deniz Gevrek, Z. Eylem Gevrek, Cahit Guven

published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2022, 45, 101069

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13581

The Effect of Employer Enrollment in E-Verify on Low-Skilled U.S. Workers

Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2021, 28, 954-957

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13581

The Effect of Employer Enrollment in E-Verify on Low-Skilled U.S. Workers

Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny

published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2021, 28, 954-957

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13245

Employer Policies and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap

Benoit Dostie, Jiang Li, David Card, Daniel Parent

published in: Journal of Econometrics, 2023, 233 (2), 544-567.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13004

The Heterogeneous Employment Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Belgium

Céline Piton, François Rycx

published as 'A Broken Social Elevator? Employment Outcomes of First- and Second-generation Immigrants in Belgium' in: De Economist, 2021, 169 (3), 319-365

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12880

Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Katarina Katz, Torun Österberg

published in: Poverty & Public Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 302 - 324.

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. 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. 12692

Culture or Context? Revisiting the Role of Culture in Shaping Economic Outcomes

Wifag Adnan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12642

Not Just a Work Permit: EU Citizenship and the Consumption Behavior of Documented and Undocumented Immigrants

Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ezgi Kaya

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53, 1552-1598

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. 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. 12511

Immigrants and Workplace Training: Evidence from Canadian Linked Employer Employee Data

Benoit Dostie, Mohsen Javdani

published in: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy & Society, 2020, 59 (2), 275-315.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12413

Immigrants' Deportations, Local Crime and Police Effectiveness

Annie Laurie Hines, Giovanni Peri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12368

Who Is in Favor of Immigration

Gil S. Epstein, Shirit Katav-Herz

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. 12097

Who Goes on Disability When Times Are Tough? The Role of Social Costs of Take-Up Among Immigrants

Delia Furtado, Kerry L. Papps, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 143, 103983

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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 11678

Motivated to Succeed? Attitudes to Education among Native and Immigrant Pupils in England

Simon Burgess, Gabriel Heller-Sahlgren

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11525

Comparing Wage Gains from Different Immigrant Legalization Programs

Sankar Mukhopadhyay

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. 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. 11445

An Apple a Day? Adult Food Stamp Eligibility and Health Care Utilization Among Immigrants

Chloe N. East, Andrew I. Friedson

published in: American Journal of Health Economics, 2020, 6 (3), 289–323

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. 11280

Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Diasporas and Exports

Massimiliano Bratti, Luca De Benedictis, Gianluca Santoni

revised version published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60(2), 249-272

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11216

A Panel Study of Immigrants' Overeducation and Earnings in Australia

Le Wen, Sholeh A. Maani

published in: International Migration, 2018, 56 (2), 177-200

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11144

Older People in Sweden Without Means: On the Importance of Age at Immigration for Being 'Twice Poor'

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Hanna Mac Innes, Torun Österberg

published in: Aging and Society, 2019, 39 (6), 1172-1199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11109

The Education and Employment Effects of DACA, In-State Tuition and Financial Aid for Undocumented Immigrants

Lisa Dickson, T. H. Gindling, James Kitchin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11003

Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Peter Brummund, Jason B. Cook, Miriam Larson-Koester

published: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33 (3), 709-750

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10852

Are Immigrant and Minority Homeownership Rates Gaining Ground in the US?

Durba Chakrabarty, Michael J. Osei, John V. Winters, Danyang Zhao

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. 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. 10625

Let the Girls Learn! I It is not Only about Math... It’s about Gender Social Norm

Natalia Nollenberger, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: Economics of Education Review, 2018, 62, 230-253

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. 10422

The Labour Market Effect of Immigration: Accounting for Effective Immigrant Work Experience in New Zealand

Michael M. H. Tse, Sholeh A. Maani

published as 'Effective Work Experience and Labour Market Impacts of New Zealand Immigration' in: J. Poot, M. Roskruge (eds.), Population Change and Impacts in Asia and the Pacific, Springer, 2020, 221-246

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. 10233

Immigrant Birthcountry Networks and Unemployment Duration: Evidence around the Great Recession

Kusum Mundra, Fernando Rios-Avila

published in: Empirical Economics 61, 2021, 389 – 415

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. 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. 9944

Poverty Risk among Older Immigrants in a Scandinavian Welfare State

Vibeke Jakobsen, Peder J. Pedersen

published in: European Journal of Social Security, 2017, 19 (3), 242 - 262

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. 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. 9762

The Formation of Networks in the Diaspora

Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2016, 37 (7), 1136-1153

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. 9728

Intergenerational Persistence of Health in the U.S.: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Assimilate?

Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Adriana Kugler

revised version published as 'Intergenerational Persistence of Health: Do Immigrants Get Healthier as They Remain in the U.S. for More Generations?' in: Economics and Human Biology, 2016, 23, 136-148.

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. 9539

Self‐Employment amongst Migrant Groups in England and Wales: New Evidence from Census Microdata

Ken Clark, Stephen Drinkwater, Catherine Robinson

revised version published in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 48 (4), 1047-1069

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