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74 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 18240
The Wage Effects of Restricting Temporary Foreign Workers: Evidence from Canada’s 2014 TFWP Reforms
Wen-Hao Chen, Tony Fang
published online as 'Restricting temporary foreign labour: evidence on wage effects from Canada’s 2014 policy reform' in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 24 October 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17798
Employer Quality and Skilled Workers’ Mobility: Evidence from English NHS Hospital Doctors
Stefano Cellini, Marco Mello, Giuseppe Moscelli
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17736
High-Skilled Migration from Myanmar: Responses to Signals of Political and Economic Stabilization
Yashodhan Ghorpade, Muhammad Saad Imtiaz, Theingie Han
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17378
Revisiting Dualism? The Governance of the Low Pay-Low Skill Labour Market in Four European Countries
Werner Eichhorst, Gemma Scalise
published online in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 11. November 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17235
Intersectional Analysis of the Labour Market Impacts of COVID: The Triple-Whammy of Females, Children, and Lower Skill
Tony Fang, Morley Gunderson, Viet Hoang Ha, Hui Ming
published online as 'Intersectional analysis of the labour market impacts of COVID on women with young children and in low-skilled jobs' in: International Journal of Manpower, 19 September 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16919
The Impact of Hiring Costs for Skilled Workers on Apprenticeship Training: A Comparative Study
Manuel Aepli, Samuel Mühlemann, Harald Pfeifer, Jürg Schweri, Felix Wenzelmann, Stefan C. Wolter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16917
The Impact of Immigration on Firms and Workers: Insights from the H-1B Lottery
Parag Mahajan, Nicolas Morales, Kevin Y. Shih, Mingyu Chen, Agostina Brinatti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16554
Recruitment Competition and Labor Demand for High-Skilled Foreign Workers
Morgan Raux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16001
Public-Sector Employment, Wages and Education Decisions
Andri Chassamboulli, Pedro Maia Gomes
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15693
Skilled Immigration, Task Allocation and the Innovation of Firms
Anna Maria Mayda, Gianluca Orefice, Gianluca Santoni
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15400
Brain Refrain and Human Capital Formation in Spain
Jose Blanco-Álvarez, Christopher Parsons, Sam Tang, Yong Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15400
Brain Refrain and Human Capital Formation in Spain
Jose Blanco-Álvarez, Christopher Parsons, Sam Tang, Yong Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15146
The Effects of High-Skilled Immigration Policy on Firms: Evidence from Visa Lotteries
Kirk Doran, Alexander Gelber, Adam Isen
published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 130 (10), 2501–2533
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13892
Buying Lottery Tickets for Foreign Workers: Search Cost Externalities Induced by H-1B Policy
Rishi Sharma, Chad Sparber
published as 'Buying lottery tickets for foreign workers: Lost quota rents induced by H-1B policy' in: Journal of International Economics, 2024, 150, 103932
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13544
Subsidizing Domestic Services as a Tool to Fight Unemployment: Effectiveness and Hidden Costs
Elisabeth Leduc, Ilan Tojerow
published as 'Home work: Exploring the labor market effects of subsidizing domestic services' in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102595
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12226
Does Low Skilled Immigration Increase Profits? Evidence from Italian Local Labour Markets
Giorgio Brunello, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Lorenzo Rocco
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2020, 85, 103582
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12095
Measuring the Spatial Misallocation of Labor: The Returns to India-Gulf Guest Work in a Natural Experiment
Michael A. Clemens
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12028
Substitution between Groups of Highly-Educated, Foreign-Born, H-1B Workers
Chad Sparber
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101756
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11806
Optimal Education Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in the Context of Brain Drain
Slobodan Djajic, Frédéric Docquier, Michael S. Michael
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2019, 85 (4), 271-303.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11370
Selective Immigration, Occupational Licensing, and Labour Market Outcomes of Foreign-Trained Migrants
Massimiliano Tani
revised version published as 'Occupational Licensing and the Skills Mismatch of Highly Educated Migrants' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (3), 730 - 756
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