Muhammad Asali
Research Fellow
Research Interests
discrimination in the labor market
human capital formation
human capital formation models
immigration and emigration
immigration and the labor market
immigration economics
labor markets and health
labor markets in developing countries
labor markets in transition
labor markets of transition economies
labor migration
macro-labor economics
Senior lecturer of Economics at the College of Management Academic Studies. Adj. Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Formerly, Professor and Head of Graduate Studies, at ISET, Tbilisi State University.
Professor Asali holds a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University; an MA in economics, and a BA in economics and accounting from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He served as a visiting assistant professor at Union College, and an adj. assistant professor at New York University. His teaching and research interests include applied microeconomics, labor economics, econometrics, and time series econometrics.
He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2014.
IZA Publications
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17590
Vytautas Kuokštis, Muhammad Asali, Simonas Algirdas Spurga
(this project received funding from the Research Council of Lithuania, agreement No S-MIP-22-20)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15494
Muhammad Asali, Valida Pantsulaia
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12101
Muhammad Asali, Rusudan Gurashvili
revised version published in: Economics of Transition & Institutional Change, 2020, 28 (3), 515-533.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11423
revised version published in: Education Economics, 2019, 27 (3), 323-337.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11056
Muhammad Asali, Norberto Pignatti, Sophiko Skhirtladze
revised version published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (4), 1294-1309.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8892
revised version published in: Defence and Peace Economics, 2019, 30 (4), 402-420.
