Matloob Piracha

Research Fellow

University of Kent

m.e.piracha@kent.ac.uk

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Research Interests

Matloob Piracha got his PhD in Economics at the University of Exeter. Currently he is based at the School of Economics, University of Kent, UK.

His main research area is labour economics, particularly migration. His work has been published, among other journals, in Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Population Economics and World Development. He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in 2004.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7388

Who Moves and For How Long: Determinants of Different Forms of Migration

Daniela Borodak, Matloob Piracha

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7274

Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance

Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Matias Vaira-Lucero

published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2016, 95, S107-S126.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6644

Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? Evidence from Matched Panel Data

Pedro S. Martins, Matloob Piracha, José Varejão

published in: Economic Modelling, 72(C), 216-222, 2018

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6414

Migrant Educational Mismatch and the Labour Market

Matloob Piracha, Florin Vadean

published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 9, 176-192

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6238

Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship

Stephane Mahuteau, Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Matias Vaira-Lucero

published in: International Migration, 2014, 52(2), 53 - 65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6091

Remittances and Return Migration

William Collier, Matloob Piracha, Teresa Randazzo

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2018, 22(1), 174-202

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5467

Motivations for Remittances: Evidence from Moldova

Matloob Piracha, Amrita Saraogi

published in: Oxford Development Studies, 2012, 40 (4), 467-491