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322 IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10045

Chinese Returnees and High-tech Sector Outward FDI: The Case of Changzhou

Zhao Chen, Tony Fang

published in: Asian Economic Papers, 2016, 15 (3), 195-215

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10031

The Elasticity of the Migrant Labor Supply: Evidence from Temporary Filipino Migrants

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Sekou Keita

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2017, 53 (11), 1822-1834

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10001

The Importance of School Systems: Evidence from International Differences in Student Achievement

Ludger Woessmann

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2016, 30 (3), 3-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9973

Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country: Theory and Policy

Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Devashish Mitra

revised version published as 'Consequences of Offshoring to Developing Nations: Labor-Market Outcomes, Welfare and Corrective Interventions' in: Economic Inquiry, 2020, 58 (1), 209 -224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9794

International Migration: Driver of Political and Social Change?

Michele Tuccio, Jackline Wahba, Bachir Hamdouch

published as 'International migration as a driver of political and social change: evidence from Morocco' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, 1171 - 120

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9668

Discouraged Immigrants and the Missing Pop in EPOP

Peter Norlander, Todd A. Sorensen

published as '21st Century Slowdown: The Historic Nature of Recent Declines in the Growth of the Immigrant Population in the United States' in: Migration Letters, 2018, 15 (3), 410 - 422

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9541

The Effect of Remittances on Labour Supply in the Republic of Haiti

Evans Jadotte, Xavier Ramos

published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52 (12), 1810-1825.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9540

Left Behind but Doing Good? Civic Engagement in Two Post-Socialist Countries

Milena Nikolova, Monica Roman, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (3), 658 - 684

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9492

The Long-Term Impacts of International Migration: Evidence from a Lottery

John Gibson, David McKenzie, Halahingano Rohorua, Steven Stillman

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32(1), 127-47

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9468

Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases: An Introduction

Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig, Daniel Teles

published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 497-526.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9453

Globalization, Technological Change and Labor Demand: A Firm Level Analysis for Turkey

Elena Meschi, Erol Taymaz, Marco Vivarelli

published in: Review of World Economics, 2016, 152, 655-680

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9437

Do Foreign Workers Reduce Trade Barriers? Microeconomic Evidence

Martyn J. Andrews, Thorsten Schank, Richard Upward

published in World Economy, 2017, 40(9), 1750-1774

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9434

Self‐Selection of Emigrants: Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics

George J. Borjas, Ilpo Kauppinen, Panu Poutvaara

published in: Economic Journal, 2019, 129, 143–171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9418

Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the New European Agenda on Migration

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Hillel Rapoport

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9412

The Welfare Effects of Globalization with Labor Market Regulation

Tapio K. Palokangas

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9231

Bound To Lose, Bound To Win? The Financial Crisis and the Informal-Formal Sector Earnings Gap in Serbia

Niels-Hugo Blunch

published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2015, 4:13

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9216

Can I Have Permission to Leave the House? Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms

Michele Tuccio, Jackline Wahba

published as 'Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms: Evidence from the Middle East' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (4), 1006 - 1029

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9164

The Selection of High-Skilled Migrants

Matthias Parey, Jens Ruhose, Fabian Waldinger, Nicolai Netz

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 99(5), 776-792

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9064

Global Poverty Goals and Prices: How Purchasing Power Parity Matters

Dean Jolliffe, Espen Beer Prydz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9058

The Causal Impact of Migration on US Trade: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Walter Steingress

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9058

The Causal Impact of Migration on US Trade: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Walter Steingress

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9021

How Deep Is Your Love? A Quantitative Spatial Analysis of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership

Oliver Krebs, Michael P. Pflüger

published in: Review of International Economics, 2018, 26, 171-222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9016

On the Potential Interaction Between Labour Market Institutions and Immigration Policies

Claudia Cigagna, Giovanni Sulis

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2015, 36(4), 441 - 468

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8924

Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis

Joan Monras

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2020, 128, 3017–3089

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8881

International Migration Opportunities and Occupational Choice: A Case Study of Philippine Nurses 2002 to 2014

Mary P. Arends-Kuenning, Alvaro Calara, Stella Go

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8866

Reciprocal Climate Negotiators

Karine Nyborg

published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 92, 707-725

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8846

Language Barriers and Immigrant Health Production

Andrew Clarke, Ingo E. Isphording

published in: Health Economics, 2017, 26 (6), 765 - 778

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8747

On the Economic Geography of International Migration

Caglar Ozden, Christopher Parsons

published in World Economy 2015, 39 (4), 478–495

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8746

A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility: The Role of Non-OECD Destinations

Erhan Artuc, Frédéric Docquier, Caglar Ozden, Christopher Parsons

published in: World Development, 2015, 65, 6 - 26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8690

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants during Transition and Enlargements

Daniela Andrén, Monica Roman

published in: Kahanec, M., and Zimmermann, K.F. (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer, 2016, 247-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8683

Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Hillel Rapoport

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (3-4), 638-672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8603

The Gender Pay Gap Across Countries: A Human Capital Approach

Solomon Polachek, Jun Xiang

published in: Esther Redmount (ed.), The Economics of the Family: How the Household Affects Markets and Economic Growth, 2014, 2, 27-66.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8411

Which Schools and Pupils Respond to Educational Achievement Surveys? A Focus on the English PISA Sample

Sylke V. Schnepf, Gabriele B. Durrant, John Micklewright

revised version published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 2018, 181 (4), 1057 - 1074

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8392

Socioeconomic Gradients in Children's Cognitive Skills: Are Cross-Country Comparisons Robust to Who Reports Family Background?

John Jerrim, John Micklewright

revised version published in: European Sociological Review, 2014, 30 (6), 766 - 781

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8352

International Migration of Couples

Martin Junge, Martin D. Munk, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8300

National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration

Eugenio Proto, Andrew J. Oswald

published in: Economic Journal, 2017, 127 (604), 2127-2152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8195

Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique

Catia Batista, Tara McIndoe Calder, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79, 797–821.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8183

Climate Variability and International Migration: The Importance of the Agricultural Linkage

Ruohong Cai, Shuaizhang Feng, Mariola Pytlikova, Michael Oppenheimer

revised version published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2016, 79, 135-151.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8163

Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

published as 'Testing Turkey’s Place Within the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values' in: Polish Political Science Review, 2017, 5 (1), 73 - 110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8163

Testing an EU-Candidate's Place on the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values: The Case of Turkey

Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati

published as 'Testing Turkey’s Place Within the Maps of Global Economic, Political and Social Values' in: Polish Political Science Review, 2017, 5 (1), 73 - 110

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8092

Immigrants and Religion

Carmel U. Chiswick

published in: Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller (eds.), Handbook on the Economics of International Immigration, 1A, Elsevier, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8066

International Labor Mobility and Child Work in Developing Countries

Anna De Paoli, Mariapia Mendola

published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (4), 678-702.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8052

UN Interventions: The Role of Geography

Juan Carlos Duque, Michael Jetter, Santiago Sosa

revised version published in: Review of International Organizations, 2015, 10(1), 67-95