Jackline Wahba

Research Fellow

University of Southampton

j.wahba@soton.ac.uk

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Research Interests

Jackline Wahba is a Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton (UK). She obtained her PhD from the Department of Economics at the University of Southampton. Her research interests are in Labour and Development Economics. Her recent work has focused on migration and labour markets in developing countries, in particular on (i) International Migration: Return migration: determinants and impact of return migration on country of origin; entrepreneurship, human capital accumulation of migrants; Remittances and impact of overseas migration on those left behind; (ii) Migrants’ labour market experience in host countries; welfare state generosity and migration skill selectivity,(iii) Labour mobility: sectoral mobility; interregional mobility, (iv) Labour market: role of social networks, role of economic reforms, informal sector, unemployment and child labour. She is a research fellow of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) and the Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM).
Her work has been published in the Review of Economics & Statistics, the Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Population Economics, among others.
She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in February 2005.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16156

Expecting Brexit and UK Migration: Should I Go?

Valentina Di Iasio, Jackline Wahba

published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104484

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16085

The Determinants of Refugees' Destinations: Where Do Refugees Locate within the EU?

Valentina Di Iasio, Jackline Wahba

published in: World Development, 2024, 177, 106533.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15942

Natives' Attitudes and Immigration Flows to Europe

Valentina Di Iasio, Jackline Wahba

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15148

Return versus Onward Migration: Go Back or Move On?

Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba

published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (3), 640-667

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14557

Training Teachers for Diversity Awareness: Impact on School Attendance of Refugee Children

Semih Tumen, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba

published online in: Journal of Human Resources, August 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14492

Return Migrants and the Wage Premium: Does the Legal Status of Migrants Matter?

Nelly Elmallakh, Jackline Wahba

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1631-1685

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. 13952

Network Sorting and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Chaotic Dispersal of the Viet Kieu

Christopher Parsons, Tyler Reysenbach, Jackline Wahba

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12858

Cooperation in a Fragmented Society: Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon

Michalis Drouvelis, Bilal Malaeb, Michael Vlassopoulos, Jackline Wahba

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 187, 176-191.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12370

Sons or Daughters? The Impact of Children's Migration on the Health and Well-Being of Parents Left Behind

Jackline Wahba, Chuhong Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12032

The Impact of Brexit on International Students' Return Intentions

Jane Falkingham, Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba, Chuhong Wang

published in: Manchester School, 2021, 89 (2), 139-171.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11245

Political Change and Informality: Evidence from the Arab Spring

Ahmed Elsayed, Jackline Wahba

published as 'Political Change and Informality' in: Economics of Transition, 2019, 27 (1), 31 - 66

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10111

Return Plans and Migrants' Behavior

Bastien Chabé-Ferret, Joël Machado, Jackline Wahba

published as 'Remigration Intentions and Migrants' Behavior' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 68, 56-72.

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. 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. 8627

Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration

Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81, 1065-1094

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8414

The Sources of the Gender Gap in Economics Enrolment

Mirco Tonin, Jackline Wahba

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (1), 72-94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8089

Strong versus Weak Ties in Migration

Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba, Yves Zenou

published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 104, 111 - 137