IZA Discussion Papers

forthcoming in: V. Aranitou, A. Angelakis, and M. Manioudis (eds), The Economic Impact of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Analytical Approaches to Growth and Innovation Challenges Amid Crises in Europe, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17444

Lifting Barriers to Skill Transferability: Immigrant Integration through Occupational Recognition

Silke Anger, Jacopo Bassetto, Malte Sandner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17397

Colorism and Immigrant Earnings in the United States, 2015–2024

Joni Hersch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17397

Colorism and Immigrant Earnings in the United States, 2015–2024

Joni Hersch

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. 17343

Immigration Shocks and Shifting Social Group Boundaries

Zohal Hessami, Sebastian Schirner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17307

Does Migrants' Consumption of Cultural Goods Impact on Their Economic Integration? Disclosing the Culture-to-Market Pathway

Salvatore Carrozzo, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Alessandra Venturini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17275

Reducing the Gender Digital Divide Amongst Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Nick Drydakis

published 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. 17214

Inter-Institutional Cooperation and Migrants' Financial Education: An Italian Case Study

Samuel Nocito, Alessandra Venturini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17195

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

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan

forthcoming in: Randall Akee, Lawrence F. Katz, and Mark Loewenstein (eds.), Race, Ethnicity, and Economic Statistics for the 21st Century, University of Chicago Press, 2026

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

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2025, 77 (2), 445-465

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17012

The Relationship between Social Capital and Migrant Integration, Ethnic Diversity, and Spatial Sorting

Matthew Roskruge, Jacques Poot

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. 16940

Partial Legalization and Parallel Markets: The Effect of Lawful Crossing on Unlawful Crossing at the US Southwest Border

Michael A. Clemens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16940

Partial Legalization and Parallel Markets: The Effect of Lawful Crossing on Unlawful Crossing at the US Southwest Border

Michael A. Clemens

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16899

The Extent and Consequences of Teacher Biases against Immigrants

Ellen Sahlström, Mikko Silliman

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16887

Do Migrants Displace Native-Born Workers on the Labour Market? The Impact of Workers' Origin

Valentine Fays, Benoît Mahy, François Rycx

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16884

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

Francesco Fasani, Jacopo Mazza

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16851

School Starting Age and the Social Gradient in Educational Outcomes

Yuejun Zhao, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed

forthcoming in: Education Economics, 2025

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

published online in: Journal on Migration and Human Security, 12 November 2024

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

published online in: International Journal of Policy Analysis and Mangement, 04 September 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16438

Low-Wage Jobs, Foreign-Born Workers, and Firm Performance

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo, Parag Mahajan, Bernhard Schmidpeter

this version: July 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16402

Which Mexicans Are White? Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans

Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo

published in: ILR Review, 2025, 78 (1), 62- 85

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16390

Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants

Christian Dustmann, Hyejin Ku, Tetyana Surovtseva

published in: Economic Journal, 2024, 134 (657), 171 - 294

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. 16313

Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants' Skill Investment

Jacob Nielsen Arendt, Christian Dustmann, Hyejin Ku

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (2), 293-318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16297

Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants

George J. Borjas, Anthony Edo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16255

China's Urban Poor – Comparing Twice Poverty between Residents and Migrants in 2013 and 2018

Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai

published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 80, 102012

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. 16216

Job Quality Gaps between Migrant and Native Gig Workers: Evidence from Poland

Zuzanna Kowalik, Piotr Lewandowski, Pawel Kaczmarczyk

published online in: New Technology, Work and Employment, 15 December 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16173

Does Access to Citizenship Confer Socio-Economic Returns? Evidence from a Randomized Control Design

Jens Hainmueller, Elisa Cascardi, Michael Hotard, Rey Koslowski, Duncan Lawrence, Vasil Yasenov, David D. Laitin

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16065

Unexpected Colonial Returns: Self-Selection and Economic Integration of Migrants over Multiple Generations

Anne C. Gielen, Dinand Webbink

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. 16020

Identity, Communication, and Conflict: An Experiment

Sumon K. Bhaumik, Subhasish M Chowdhury, Ralitza Dimova, Hanna Fromell

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. 15950

Language Proficiency and Hiring of Immigrants: Evidence from a New Field Experimental Approach

Magnus Carlsson, Stefan Eriksson, Dan-Olof Rooth

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15850

Forced Migration and Social Cohesion: Evidence from the 2015/16 Mass Inflow in Germany

Emanuele Albarosa, Benjamin Elsner

published in: World Development, 2023,167, 106228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15847

Towing Norms through the American Dream

Pavel Jelnov

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15823

Minimum Wage in Germany: Countering the Wage and Employment Gap between Migrants and Natives?

Kai Ingwersen, Stephan L. Thomsen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15802

Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market: Patterns over Time and across Generations

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

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, 37 (1), 169–198

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

forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15750

Housing Demolition and Occupational Mobility: Evidence from China

Chuhong Wang, Yonghua Wang, Xingfei Liu, Jiatong Zhong

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. 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. 15667

The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Michael A. Clemens, Ethan Gatewood Lewis

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15659

Naturalization and Immigrants' Health

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll

published in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (2), 310 - 332

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15659

Naturalization and Immigrants' Health

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll

published in: Health Economics, 2024, 33 (2), 310 - 332

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15642

Migrants from Ukraine and Belarus Living in Sweden before the War

Fredrik W. Andersson, Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15600

COVID-19 and the Swedish Labor Market in 2021, the Second COVID-19 Year

Fredrik W. Andersson, Eskil Wadensjö

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. 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. 15482

Migration and Firm-Level Productivity

Richard Fabling, David C. Maré, Philip Stevens

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

published online in: Migration Studies, mnae010, 02 April 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15393

Second-Generation Immigrants and Native Attitudes Toward Immigrants in Europe

Oscar Barrera, Isabelle Bensidoun, Anthony Edo

published online in: Migration Studies, mnae010, 02 April 2024

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15384

The Labor Market Impacts of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil

Mrittika Shamsuddin, Pablo A. Acosta, Rovane Battaglin Schwengber, Jedediah Fix, Nikolas Pirani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15317

The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Michael A. Clemens

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (3), 449-486.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15317

The Economic and Fiscal Effects on the United States from Reduced Numbers of Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Michael A. Clemens

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (3), 449-486.

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: Review of Economics and Statistics

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15270

Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India: Gender Inequality in Employment?

Nabamita Dutta, Saibal Kar

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. 15191

Work Permit Regulations and Migrants' Labor Market Outcomes

Pamela Qendrai

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15189

Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers

Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Roberto Nistico

forthcoming in: Demography, 2025

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15167

COVID-19 and the Swedish Labor Market – A Register Perspective

Fredrik W. Andersson, Eskil Wadensjö

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. 15070

Heterogeneous Peer Effects under Endogenous Selection: An Application to Local and Migrant Children in Elementary Schools in Shanghai

Yuanyuan Chen, Shuaizhang Feng, Chao Yang

published in: China Economic Review, 2024, 87, 102207

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14960

Firm Productivity and Immigrant-Native Earnings Disparity

Olof Aslund, Cristina Bratu, Stefano Lombardi, Anna Thoresson

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

published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2024, 38 (4), 249-270.

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. 14862

Ethnic Regional Networks and Immigrants' Earnings: A Spatial Autoregressive Network Approach

Xingang Wang, Sholeh A. Maani

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2021, 100 (1), 141-169

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. 14750

Immigrant Supply of Marketable Child Care and Native Fertility in Italy

Rama Dasi Mariani, Furio C. Rosati

published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2022, 88 (4), 503 - 533

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14729

Employer Sanctions: A Policy with a Pitfall?

Oded Stark, Marcin Jakubek

published in: Robert M. Sauer (ed.): World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration Volume 1: Immigration and the Labor Market: A Global View of Assimilation and its Aftermath, 2024, 205–223

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. 14717

Testing Classic Theories of Migration in the Lab

Catia Batista, David McKenzie

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2023, 145, 103826

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