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854 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15482
Migration and Firm-Level Productivity
Richard Fabling, David C. Maré, Philip Stevens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15473
Discrimination in a Rank Order Contest. Evidence from the NFL Draft
Ian Gregory-Smith, Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez
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. 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. 15358
Heterogeneous Returns to Active Labour Market Programs for Indigenous Populations
Donn. L. Feir, Kelly Foley, Maggie E. C. Jones
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15356
Immigration and Electoral Outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 Refugee Inflow to Germany
Julia Bredtmann
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, 96, 103807
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15332
Commuting to Work and Gender-Conforming Social Norms: Evidence from Same-Sex Couples
Sonia Oreffice, Dario Sansone
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15285
Homosexuality's Signalling Function in Job Candidate Screening: Why Gay Is (Mostly) OK
Philippe Sterkens, Axana Dalle, Joey Wuyts, Ines Pauwels, Hellen Durinck, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15263
Automated Chat Application Surveys Using Whatsapp: Evidence from Panel Surveys and a Mode Experiment
Jennifer Fei, Jessica Sadye Wolff, Michael Hotard, Hannah Ingham, Saurabh Khanna, Duncan Lawrence, Beza Tesfaye, Jeremy Weinstein, Vasil Yasenov, Jens Hainmueller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15261
Diving in the Minds of Recruiters: What Triggers Gender Stereotypes in Hiring?
Hannah Van Borm, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15240
What the Students for Fair Admissions Cases Reveal about Racial Preferences
Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15219
Incomplete Catching Up: Income among Manchurian, Yi and Han People in Rural China from 2002 to 2018
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Yudan Zhang
forthcoming in: China Quarterly
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15206
Does Religious Diversity Improve Trust and Performance? Evidence from Lebanon
Serena Canaan, Antoine Deeb, Pierre Mouganie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15189
Legalization and Long-Term Outcomes of Immigrant Workers
Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Roberto Nistico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15187
The Effect of Foreign Students on Native Students' Outcomes in Higher Education
Julián Costas-Fernández, Greta Morando
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15186
How to Reduce Discrimination? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Amateur Soccer
Robert Dur, Carlos Gomez-Gonzalez, Cornel Nesseler
revised version forthcoming in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15184
Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US
Mingyu Chen, Jessica Howell, Jonathan Smith
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15167
COVID-19 and the Swedish Labor Market – A Register Perspective
Fredrik W. Andersson, Eskil Wadensjö
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15146
The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries
Kirk Doran, Alexander Gelber, Adam Isen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15098
Social Distancing, Stimulus Payments, and Domestic Violence: Evidence from the US during COVID-19
Bilge Erten, Pinar Keskin, Silvia Prina
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15095
Reducing Racial Inequality in Access to the Ballot Reduces Racial Inequality in Children's Later-Life Outcomes
Daniel Jones, Ying Shi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15078
The Political Economy of Propaganda: Evidence from US Newspapers
Sebastian Ottinger, Max Winkler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15063
Limbo or Leverage? Asylum Waiting and Refugee Integration
Olof Aslund, Mattias Engdahl, Olof Rosenqvist
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15042
Strangers and Foreigners: Trust and Attitudes toward Citizenship
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico, Gian Luca Tedeschi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15019
The Long-Run Impacts of Mexican-American School Desegregation
Francisca M. Antman, Kalena E. Cortes
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Literature
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15002
Updates on Returns to Education in India: Analysis Using PLFS 2018-19 Data
Jie Chen, Sanghamitra Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Francesco Pastore
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14966
The State of Hiring Discrimination: A Meta-Analysis of (Almost) All Recent Correspondence Experiments
Louis Lippens, Siel Vermeiren, Stijn Baert
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14962
Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany
Philipp Jaschke, Sulin Sardoschau, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14960
Firm Productivity and Immigrant-Native Earnings Disparity
Olof Aslund, Cristina Bratu, Stefano Lombardi, Anna Thoresson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14935
Uncovering the Roots of Obesity-Based Wage Discrimination: The Role of Job Characteristics
Juan J. Dolado, Airam Guerra
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14907
Do Police Make Too Many Arrests? The Effect of Enforcement Pullbacks on Crime
Sungwoo Cho, Felipe Gonçalves, Emily Weisburst
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 online in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 06 Dec 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14874
Discrimination and Daycare Choice: Evidence from a Randomized Survey
Mongoljin Batsaikhan, Mette Gørtz, John Kennes, Ran Sun Lyng, Daniel Monte, Norovsambuu Tumennasan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14845
The Economics of Being LGBT. A Review: 2015-2020
Nick Drydakis
forthcoming in Julie. A. Gedro and Tonette. S. Rocco (eds), The Routledge Companion to LGBTQ Identity in Global, Social, Political, and Work Contexts. London: Routledge. 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14840
Asylum Recognition Rates in Europe: Persecution, Policies and Performance
Timothy J. Hatton
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14837
TRAP'd Teens: Impacts of Abortion Provider Regulations on Fertility & Education
Kelly M. Jones, Mayra Pineda-Torres
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14815
Multi-Dimensional Identities of the Hispanic Population in the United States
Francisca M. Antman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14813
Wage Effects of Educational Mismatch According to Workers' Origin: The Role of Demographics and Firm Characteristics
Valentine Jacobs, Francois Rycx, Mélanie Volral
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14771
Comparing Receipt of Social Assistance in Urban and Rural China and the Role of Ethnicity
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai
forthcoming in: China: An International Journal (CIJ), 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14766
Do Refugees with Better Mental Health Better Integrate? Evidence from the Building a New Life in Australia Longitudinal Survey
Hai-Anh Dang, Trong-Anh Trinh, Paolo Verme
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14728
The Impact of Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Their Integration in the Host Country
Pia Schilling, Steven Stillman
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14713
Gender Inequality and Caste: Field Experimental Evidence from India
Asad Islam, Debayan Pakrashi, Soubhagya Sahoo, Liang Choon Wang, Yves Zenou
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 190, 111-124.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14709
Specialization in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples
Thomas Hofmarcher, Erik Plug
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14696
Wage Differences According to Workers' Origin: The Role of Working More Upstream in GVCs
Valentine Fays, Benoît Mahy, Francois Rycx
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14676
Bye Bye Ms. American Sci: Women and the Leaky STEM Pipeline
Jamin D. Speer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14647
The Effect of 3.6 Million Refugees on Crime
Murat G. Kirdar, Ivan Lopez Cruz, Betül Türküm
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2022, 194, 568–582
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14646
De Facto Immigration Enforcement, ICE Raid Awareness, and Worker Engagement
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Francisca M. Antman
accepted at Economic Inquiry
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14608
Shifting Punishment on Minorities: Experimental Evidence of Scapegoating
Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová, Gerald Roland
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14576
Immigration and the Short- and Long-Term Impact of Improved Prenatal Conditions
Victor Lavy, Analia Schlosser, Adi Shany
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14571
Sissy That Walk: Transportation to Work by Sexual Orientation
Sonia Oreffice, Dario Sansone
revised version published as 'Transportation to work by sexual orientation' in: PLoS ONE , 2022, 17(2), e0263687 [Open access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14567
Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the US
Stefano Gagliarducci, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14566
Multigenerational Mobility in India
Anustup Kundu, Kunal Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14558
Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?
Philippe Wanner, Marco Pecoraro, Massimiliano Tani
forthcoming in: European Journal of Population, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14557
Training Teachers for Diversity Awareness: Impact on School Attendance of Refugee Children
Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14539
Economics of Minority Groups: Labour Market Returns and Transmission of Indigenous Languages
Diego de la Fuente Stevens, Panu Pelkonen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14519
How Did the COVID-19 Crisis Affect Different Types of Workers in the Developing World?
Maurice Kugler, Mariana Viollaz, Daniel Duque, Isis Gaddis, David Newhouse, Amparo Palacios-Lopez, Michael Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14516
Do Ethnically-Congruent Teachers Really Matter Little for Hispanic Students? A Re-Examination of the Data
Kelvin Seah
published in: Economics Letters, 2021, 206, Article 109976
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14512
The Impact of an Un(der)Funded Inclusive Education Policy: Evidence from the 2013 China Education Panel Survey
Massimiliano Tani, Yu Zhu, Lei Xu
published in: Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, 2021, 190, 768-784.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14496
Sexual Orientation and Earnings. A Meta-Analysis 2012-2020
Nick Drydakis
published in: Journal of Population Economics, Published: 06 July 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14495
The Effect of Photos and a Local-Sounding Name on Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities in Austria
Doris Weichselbaumer, Julia Schuster
published in: European Sociological Review, 2021, 37 (6), 867-882
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14488
Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14466
The Making of a Lost Generation: Child Labor among Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Murat G. Kirdar, Ismet Koc
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14403
Black Entrepreneurs, Job Creation, and Financial Constraints
Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee, J. David Brown, John S. Earle
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
forthcoming in: Journal of Public Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14383
Signals from On High and the Power of Growth Mindset: A Natural Field Experiment in Attracting Minorities to High-Profile Positions
Jeffrey A. Flory, Andreas Leibbrandt, Christina Rott, Olga B. Stoddard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14371
From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration
Vasiliki Fouka, Soumyajit Mazumder, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14354
The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics?
Alberto Alesina, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14344
The Economics of Diversity: Innovation, Productivity, and the Labour Market
Ceren Ozgen
published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2021, 35 (4), 1168-1216
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14312
Racial Diversity, Electoral Preferences, and the Supply of Policy: The Great Migration and Civil Rights
Alvaro Calderon, Vasiliki Fouka, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14311
Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the US
Vasiliki Fouka, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14306
Equal Time for Equal Crime? Racial Bias in School Discipline
Ying Shi, Maria Zhu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14276
The Changing Distribution of the Male Ethnic Wage Gap in Great Britain
Ken Clark, Steve Nolan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14272
The Effect of a Health and Economic Shock on the Gender, Ethnic and Racial Gap in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from COVID-19
Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
updated version forthcoming as ''The Effect of Covid-19 as an Economic Shock on the Gender and Ethnic Gap in Labor Market Outcomes' in: Studies in Microeconomics, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14260
Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model
Vincent Boucher, Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14238
COVID-19, Race, and Gender
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14217
Immigrants' Economic Performance and Selective Outmigration: Diverging Predictions from Survey and Administrative Data
Charles Bellemare, Natalia Kyui, Guy Lacroix
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14208
Collective Bargaining Rights, Policing, and Civilian Deaths
Jamein Cunningham, Donn. L. Feir, Rob Gillezeau
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14196
Diversity in Schools: Immigrants and the Educational Performance of U.S. Born Students
David N. Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Riccardo Marchingiglio, Umut Ozek, Paola Sapienza
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14191
Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia
Jakub Grossmann, Štepán Jurajda, Felix Roesel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14188
On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship
Harriet Duleep, David A. Jaeger, Peter McHenry
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14182
Asian Discrimination in the Coronavirus Era: Implications for Business Formation and Survival
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cristina Borra, Chunbei Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14164
Immigration and Voting Patterns in the European Union: Evidence from Five Case Studies and Cross-Country Analysis
Ethan Grumstrup, Todd A. Sorensen, Jan Misiuna, Marta Pachocka
(forthcoming in Migration Letters)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14159
The Consequences of Hosting Asylum Seekers for Citizens' Policy Preferences
Severin Zimmermann, Alois Stutzer
forthcoming in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14158
The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment
Mette Foged, Linea Hasager, Vasil Yasenov
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2022, 124 (1), 164-213
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14152
How Do Low-Skilled Immigrants Adjust to Chinese Import Shocks? Evidence Using English Language Proficiency
Delia Furtado, Haiyang Kong
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14140
Peers' Race in Adolescence and Voting Behavior
Maria Polipciuc, Frank Cörvers, Raymond Montizaan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14123
Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Labour Market Outcomes
Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Zhiming Cheng, Ben Zhe Wang
published online in: Journal of Population Economics, 07 January 2022
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14120
Persecution and Escape: Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
Sascha O. Becker, Volker Lindenthal, Sharun Mukand, Fabian Waldinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14092
Learning about Farming: Innovation and Social Networks in a Resettled Community in Brazil
Margherita Comola, Carla Inguaggiato, Mariapia Mendola
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14053
Ethnic Capital and Class Reproduction: Comparing the Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Children's Educational Attainment across Ethno-Religious Groups in Israel
Sami H. Miaari, Nabil Khattab, Vered Kraus, Yuval P. Yonay
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14019
Beyond the Origin Dummy: Heterogeneity of Ethnicity and Human Capital Accumulation
Agnieszka Postepska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14002
Community Influence as an Explanatory Factor Why Roma Children Get Little Schooling
Oded Stark, Ruxanda Berlinschi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13972
Do Inclusive Education Policies Improve Employment Opportunities? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Jorge M. Aguero, Francisco Galarza, Gustavo Yamada
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13962
An Empirical Assessment of Workload and Migrants' Health in Germany
Kai Ingwersen, Stephan L. Thomsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13953
Consequences of a Massive Refugee Influx on Firm Performance and Market Structure
Yusuf Emre Akgündüz, Yusuf Kenan Bağır, Seyit Mümin Cilasun, Murat G. Kirdar
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13914
First Time around: Local Conditions and Multi-Dimensional Integration of Refugees
Cevat Giray Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara, Felicitas Schikora
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