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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
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
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
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14496
Sexual Orientation and Earnings. A Meta-Analysis 2012-2020
Nick Drydakis
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
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
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 in Studies in Microeconomics, 2021. The title has been changed to "The Effect of Covid-19 as an Economic Shock on the Gender and Ethnic Gap in Labor Market Outcomes."
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, Donna 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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14159
The Consequences of Hosting Asylum Seekers for Citizens' Policy Preferences
Severin Zimmermann, Alois Stutzer
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
accepted in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics
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
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. Agüero, 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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13913
Competitive Preferences among Asians in the U.S.
John Ifcher, Homa Zarghamee
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13902
Love Thy Neighbour? Brexit and Hate Crime
Joel Carr, Joanna Clifton-Sprigg, Jonathan James, Suncica Vujic
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13890
What's in a Name? Does Racial or Gender Discrimination in Marking Exist?
Shyamal Chowdhury, Ilya Klauzner, Robert Slonim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13855
Economic Assimilation of the "Third Generation": An Intergenerational Mobility Perspective on Immigration and Integration
Aslan Zorlu, Wouter van Gent
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13755
An Introduction to the Economics of Immigration in OECD Countries
Anthony Edo, Lionel Ragot, Hillel Rapoport, Sulin Sardoschau, Andreas Steinmayr, Arthur Sweetman
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'economique, 2020, 53 (4), 1365-1403
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13750
Ethnic Employment Gaps of Graduates in the Netherlands
Paul Bisschop, Bas ter Weel, Jelle Zwetsloot
published in: De Economist, 2020, 168(4), 577-598
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13748
U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Fertility
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13734
STEM Occupations and the Gender Gap: What Can We Learn from Job Tasks?
Jamin D. Speer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13716
How Is the COVID-19 Crisis Exacerbating Socioeconomic Inequality among Palestinians in Israel?
Sami H. Miaari, Maha Sabbah-Karkabi, Amit Loewenthal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13711
The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory
Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Swati Sharma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13707
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions
Robert W. Fairlie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13698
Immigration Policy and Hispanics' Willingness to Run for Office
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Jose R. Bucheli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13650
Who are the Essential and Frontline Workers?
Francine D. Blau, Josefine Koebe, Pamela Meyerhofer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13647
Institutional Discrimination and Assimilation: Evidence from the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Shuo Chen, Bin Xie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13627
The Effect of Hosting 3.4 Million Refugees on the Health System in Turkey and Infant, Child, and Elderly Mortality among Natives
Aysun Hızıroğlu Aygün, Murat G. Kirdar, Berna Tuncay
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13594
Education, Spatial Disparities in Schooling and Black-White Interracial Marriage
Deniz Gevrek, Z. Eylem Gevrek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13581
The Effect of Employer Enrollment in E-Verify on Low-Skilled U.S. Workers
Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13572
Obstacles to Labour Market Participation among Arab Women in Israel
Sami H. Miaari, Nabil Khattab, Maha Sabbah-Karkabi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13533
The Intergenerational Transmission of Gender Role Attitudes: Evidence from Immigrant Mothers-In-Law
Julia Bredtmann, Lisa Sofie Höckel, Sebastian Otten
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, 179, 101-115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13523
Is Labour Market Discrimination against Ethnic Minorities Better Explained by Taste or Statistics? A Systematic Review of the Empirical Evidence
Louis Lippens, Stijn Baert, Abel Ghekiere, Pieter-Paul Verhaeghe, Eva Derous
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13507
Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls
Gordon B. Dahl, Christina Felfe, Paul Frijters, Helmut Rainer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13503
COVID-19 and Mental Health Deterioration among BAME Groups in the UK
Eugenio Proto, Climent Quintana-Domeque
revised version published as 'COVID-19 and mental health deterioration by ethnicity and gender in the UK' in: PLoS ONE, 2021, 16 (1), e0244419.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13467
COVID-19, Race, and Redlining
Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13455
Immigration Policy and Immigrants' Sleep: Evidence from DACA
Osea Giuntella, Jakub Lonsky, Luca Stella, Fabrizio Mazzonna
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13449
The Spillover of Anti-Immigration Politics to the Schoolyard
Emanuele Bracco, Maria De Paola, Colin P. Green, Vincenzo Scoppa
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13433
Refugees and the Educational Attainment of Natives
Colin P. Green, Jon Marius Vaag Iversen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13371
Religion in Economic History: A Survey
Sascha O. Becker, Jared Rubin, Ludger Woessmann
published in: A. Bisin, G. Federico (eds.), The Handbook of Historical Economics, pp. 585-639, London: Academic Press, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13350
The CPS Citizenship Question and Survey Refusals: Causal and Semi-Causal Evidence Featuring a Two-Stage Regression Discontinuity Design
Robert Bernhardt, Phanindra V. Wunnava
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13347
First Impressions: The Case of Teacher Racial Bias
Marcos A. Rangel, Ying Shi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13337
Discrimination, Narratives and Family History: An Experiment with Jordanian Host and Syrian Refugee Children
Kai Barron, Heike Harmgart, Steffen Huck, Sebastian Schneider, Matthias Sutter
revised version forthcoming in: Review of Economics and Statistics (accepted May 2021)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13311
The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Robert W. Fairlie
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13269
Market Competition and Discrimination
Abu Siddique, Michael Vlassopoulos, Yves Zenou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13268
The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
Paola Giuliano, Marco Tabellini
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13264
The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment: First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata
Kenneth A. Couch, Robert W. Fairlie, Huanan Xu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13250
COVID-19 Crisis Fuels Hostility against Foreigners
Vojtech Bartos, Michal Bauer, Jana Cahlíková, Julie Chytilová
revised version published: European Economic Review, 2021
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13245
Employer Policies and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap
Benoit Dostie, Jiang Li, David Card, Daniel Parent
forthcoming in: Journal of Econometrics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13229
The COVID-19 Crisis and Telework: A Research Survey on Experiences, Expectations and Hopes
Stijn Baert, Louis Lippens, Eline Moens, Johannes Weytjens, Philippe Sterkens
revised version available on request
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13208
Racial Discrimination and White First Name Adoption: Evidence from a Correspondence Study in the Australian Labour Market
Shyamal Chowdhury, Evarn Ooi, Robert Slonim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13193
Prussia Disaggregated: The Demography of its Universe of Localities in 1871
Sascha O. Becker, Francesco Cinnirella
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2020, 86(3): 259-290.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13181
Elementary Facts about Immigration in Italy: What Do We Know about Immigration and Its Impact?
Rama Dasi Mariani, Alessandra Pasquini, Furio C. Rosati
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13172
Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions
Peter Arcidiacono, Josh Kinsler, Tyler Ransom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13164
How Do We Think the COVID-19 Crisis Will Affect Our Careers (If Any Remain)?
Stijn Baert, Louis Lippens, Eline Moens, Philippe Sterkens, Johannes Weytjens
revised version published as 'How do employees think the COVID-19 crisis will affect their careers?' in Plos One [Online Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13120
The Economic Outcomes of an Ethnic Minority: The Role of Barriers
Nitsa Kaliner Kasir, Eran Yashiv
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13093
Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks: Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-market Work among US Immigrants
Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Matthew Comey, Amanda Eng, Pamela Meyerhofer, Alexander Willén
published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2020, 18 (4), 907-958
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13049
The Economic Impact of Migrants from Hurricane Maria
Giovanni Peri, Derek Rury, Justin C. Wiltshire
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13031
What Does Someone's Gender Identity Signal to Employers?
Hannah Van Borm, Marlot Dhoop, Allien Van Acker, Stijn Baert
revised version published in: International Journal of Manpower [Online Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13014
The Effect of Immigration on Business Dynamics and Employment
Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny, Alexander Abraham
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13013
How Does Immigration Fit into the Future of the U.S. Labor Market?
Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny, Stephanie Gullo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13004
The Heterogeneous Employment Outcomes of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in Belgium
Céline Piton, Francois Rycx
forthcoming as 'A Broken Social Elevator? Employment Outcomes of First- and Second-generation Immigrants in Belgium' in: De Economist, 2021
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