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
published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 157, 104484
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16085
published in: World Development, 2024, 177, 106533.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15148
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2023, 69 (3), 640-667
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14492
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2022, 35, 1631-1685
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12858
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 187, 176-191.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12032
Jane Falkingham, Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba, Chuhong Wang
published in: Manchester School, 2021, 89 (2), 139-171.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11245
published as 'Political Change and Informality' in: Economics of Transition, 2019, 27 (1), 31 - 66
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10111
published as 'Remigration Intentions and Migrants' Behavior' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 68, 56-72.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9794
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
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
published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, 81, 1065-1094
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8414
published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (1), 72-94
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8089
Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba, Yves Zenou
published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 104, 111 - 137
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7732
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 108, 54-68
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7270
Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2013, 37, 65-92
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6450
Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba
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 26, 489-504
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5722
revised version published in: Review of Economics & Statistics, 2014, 96(3), 483-494
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5546
revised version published as 'Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity' in: Journal of Scandinavian Economics, 2015, 177 (2), 369 - 402
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4541
published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (5), 890–903
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1966
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2006, 79 (2), 374-397
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1771
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (4), 823-852
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