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IZA Discussion Paper No. 12784
Greater US Gun Ownership, Lethality and Murder Rates: Analysis and Policy Proposals
Maurice Schiff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12700
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities of Immigrants: New Perspectives on Migrant Quality from a Selective Immigration Country
Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Stefanie Schurer
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 203, 107-124
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12697
Excess Churn in Integrated Labor Markets
Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2021, 34, 865-892
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12659
Are Political and Economic Integration Intertwined?
Bernt Bratsberg, Giovanni Facchini, Tommaso Frattini, Anna Rosso
published in: Economica, 2023, 90 (360), 1265 - 1306
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12642
Not Just a Work Permit: EU Citizenship and the Consumption Behavior of Documented and Undocumented Immigrants
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ezgi Kaya
published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2020, 53, 1552-1598
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12640
Climate Change, Migration and Voice: An Explanation for the Immobility Paradox
Michel Beine, Ilan Noy, Christopher Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12639
A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on Climate Change and Migration
Michel Beine, Lionel Jeusette
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12630
Conflicting Identities: Cosmopolitan or Anxious? Appreciating Concerns of Host Country Population Improves Attitudes Towards Immigrants
Tobias Heidland, Philipp Wichardt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12624
Self-Employment and Migration
Samuele Giambra, David McKenzie
published in: World Development, 2022, 141, 105362
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12623
Climate Change, Inequality, and Human Migration
Michal Burzynski, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier, Jaime de Melo
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (3), 1145 - 1197
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12583
Can a Deportation Policy Backfire?
Oded Stark, Lukasz Byra
published in: Public Choice, 2020, 183, 29 - 41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12567
Interest Rate Bands of Inaction and Play-Hysteresis in Domestic Investment: Evidence for the Euro Area
Ansgar H. Belke, Coletta Frenzel Baudisch, Matthias Göcke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12564
Trade and Capital Flows: Substitutes or Complements? An Empirical Investigation
Ansgar H. Belke, Clemens Domnick
published in: Review of International Economics, 2021, 29 (3), 573 - 589
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12551
Does Halting Refugee Resettlement Reduce Crime? Evidence from the United States Refugee Ban
Daniel Masterson, Vasil Yasenov
published in: American Political Science Review, 2021, 115 (3), 1066 - 1073
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12480
Estimating the Determinants of Remittances Originating from U.S. Households using CPS Data
Nicole B. Simpson, Chad Sparber
published in: Eastern Economic Journal, 2020, 46 (1), 161-189
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12469
Immigration and Crimes against Natives: The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany
Yue Huang, Michael Kvasnicka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12453
Gender Pay Gap Patterns in Domestic and Foreign-Owned Firms
Iga Magda, Katarzyna Salach
published in: Empirical Economics, 2021, 61, 2237–2263
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12412
Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia
Dany Bahar, Cem Özgüzel, Andreas Hauptmann, Hillel Rapoport
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2024, 106, 2, 287-304
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12382
Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Hillel Rapoport
published in: Research Policy, 2020, 49 (9), 103947
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12254
To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans
Artjoms Ivlevs, Roswitha M. King
published in: International Migration Review, 2020, 54(2), 559–584
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12227
Managing the Impact of Climate on Migration: Evidence from Mexico
Isabelle Chort, Maëlys de la Rupelle
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12190
Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
J. David Brown, John S. Earle, Mee Jung Kim, Kyung Min Lee
published in: I. Ganguli, S. Kahn, M.MacGarvie (eds.), The Roles of Immigrants and Foreign Students in US Science, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship,Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020, 149-172.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12173
Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment
Satish Chand, Michael A. Clemens
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, 103112
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12168
All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Wages and Education for US Immigrants
Simone Bertoli, Steven Stillman
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, Article 101749
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12134
B for Brexit: A Survey of the Economics Academic Literature
Nauro F. Campos
published as 'The Economics of Brexit' in: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2019.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12096
Monopsony Power and Guest Worker Programs
Eric M. Gibbons, Allie Greenman, Peter Norlander, Todd A. Sorensen
published in: Antitrust Bulletin, 2019, 64 (4), 540-565
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. 12094
The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind: Estimation in Presence of Intra-Household Selection of Migrants
Elie Murard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12088
Schooling Forsaken: Education and Migration
Ilhom Abdulloev, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12087
Estimating the Potential Effects of Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census
J. David Brown, Misty L. Heggeness, Suzanne M. Dorinski, Lawrence Warren, Moises Yi
published as 'Predicting the Effect of Adding a Citizenship Question to the 2020 Census' in: Demography, 2019, 56 1173–1194.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12075
Emigration and Alcohol Consumption among Migrant Household Members Staying Behind: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Sara Paulone, Artjoms Ivlevs
published in: Social Science and Medicine, 2019, 221, 40-48
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12048
Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Romuald Meango, Hillel Rapoport
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48 (2), 385-404
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12047
The 2015 European Refugee Crisis and Residential Housing Rents in Germany
Kathleen Kürschner Rauck, Michael Kvasnicka
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12029
The Effect of Increasing Immigration Enforcement on the Labor Supply of High-Skilled Citizen Women
Chloe N. East, Andrea Velasquez
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. 11979
The Financial Decisions of Immigrant and Native Households: Evidence from Italy
Graziella Bertocchi, Marianna Brunetti, Anzelika Zaiceva
substantially revised version published in: Italian Economic Journal, 2023, 9, 117-174
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11960
Migration with Pension Reform Expectations
Marek Góra, Anna Ruzik-Sierdzińska
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11959
International Migration and the Distribution of Income in New Zealand Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Areas
Omoniyi Alimi, David C. Maré, Jacques Poot
published in: New Zealand Economic Papers, 2022, 56 (3), 272-295
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11907
Immigrants Move Where Their Skills Are Scarce: Evidence from English Proficiency
Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Zoë Kuehn
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101748
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11906
Does Migration Motive Matter for Migrants' Employment Outcomes? The Case of Belgium
Dries Lens, Ive Marx, Suncica Vujic
published in: Christiane Timmerman, Noel Clycq, François Levrau, Lore Van Praag, and Dirk Vanheule (eds.), Migration and Integration in Flanders: Multidisciplinary PerspectivesLeuven University Press, 2018, 245–272
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11905
Is Quick Formal Access to the Labor Market Enough? Refugees' Labor Market Integration in Belgium
Dries Lens, Ive Marx, Suncica Vujic
revised version published as 'Double Jeopardy: How Refugees Fare in One European Labor Market' in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2019, 10 (1)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11885
Capital Market Integration and Gender Inequality
Mizuki Komura, Hikaru Ogawa
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2019, 23(3), 1387-1413.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11836
Changing Sex-Ratios among Immigrant Communities in the U.S.
Adriana Hernández Catañeda, Todd A. Sorensen
published in: Journal of Economics, Race and Policy, 2019, 2 (1-2), 20 - 42
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11835
Migration, Remittances and Human Capital Investment in Kenya
Annie Laurie Hines, Nicole B. Simpson
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11834
Determinants and Dynamics of Forced Migration to Europe: Evidence from a 3-D Model of Flows and Stocks
Tilman Brück, Kai M. Dunker, Neil T.N. Ferguson, Aline Meysonnat, Eleonora Nillesen
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. 11802
Birthplace Diversity and Economic Growth: Evidence from the US States in the Post-World War II Period
Frédéric Docquier, Riccardo Turati, Jérôme Valette, Chrysovalantis Vasilakis
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2020, 20 (2), 321 -354
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11778
Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration
Anthony Edo, Hillel Rapoport
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, Article 101753
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11777
Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks
Catia Batista, Julia Seither, Pedro C. Vicente
published in: World Development, 2019, 117, 328-343
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11697
The Hardships of Long Distance Relationships: Time Zone Proximity and Knowledge Transmission within Multinational Firms
Dany Bahar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11679
Purchasing-Power-Parity and the Saving Behavior of Temporary Migrants
Alpaslan Akay, Alexandra Brausmann, Slobodan Djajic, Murat Güray Kirdar
published in: European Economic Review, 2021, 134, 103682.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11676
The Impact of Government Spending on GDP in a Remitting Country
Almukhtar Al-Abri, Ismail H. Genc, George S Naufal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11612
Refugee Admissions and Public Safety: Are Refugee Settlement Areas More Prone to Crime?
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Cynthia Bansak, Susan Pozo
published in: International Migration Review, 2021, 55 (1), 135-165.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11611
Immigration, Housing Rents, and Residential Segregation: Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Binnur Balkan, Elif Ozcan Tok, Huzeyfe Torun, Semih Tumen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11610
The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD: What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
Michal Burzynski, Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport
published in: IMF Economic Review, 2018, 66(3), 564-601
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11552
Economic Resources, Financial Aid and Remittances
Simon Pierre Boulanger Martel, Lisa Pelling, Eskil Wadensjö
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11551
Brain Drain-Induced Brain Gain and the Bhagwati Tax: Are Early and Recent Paradigms Compatible?
Maurice Schiff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11548
Did OPT Policy Changes Help Steer and Retain Foreign Talent into Stem?
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Delia Furtado, Huanan Xu
published as 'OPT policy changes and foreign born STEM talent in the U.S.' in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, 101752
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11500
Employment Protection and Firm Relocation: Theory and Evidence
Gerda Dewit, Holger Görg, Yama Temouri
published in: Economica, 2019, 86 (344), 663-688
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11499
Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level: New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
Martyna Marczak, Thomas Beissinger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11497
Do House Prices Sink or Ride the Wave of Immigration?
Matthew P. Larkin, Zohid Askarov, Chris Doucouliagos, Chris Dubelaar, Maria Klona, Joshua Newton, T. D. Stanley, Andrea Vocino
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11488
Long-Term Relatedness between Countries and International Migrant Selection
Tim Krieger, Laura Renner, Jens Ruhose
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2018, 113, 35-54
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11486
The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement
Chloe N. East, Philip Luck, Hani Mansour, Andrea Velasquez
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (4), 957–996
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11483
Beneficial Brain Drain and Non-Migrants' Welfare
Maurice Schiff
published as 'Brain drain, brain gain and optimal education policy: Implications for non-migrant welfare 'in: Revue d'économie du développement, 2020, 28, 5 - 29
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11480
The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring
William W. Olney, Dario Pozzoli
revised version published as 'The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring' in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2021, 103 (1), 177 - 195
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11438
Hollowing Out the Middle? Remittances and Income Inequality in Nigeria
James T. Bang, Aniruddha Mitra, Phanindra V. Wunnava
published in: Migration and Development, 2022, 11 (3), 543 - 559
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11437
Emigration, Remittances and the Subjective Well-Being of Those Staying Behind
Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova, Carol Lee Graham
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (1), 113-151.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11415
Cultural Change and the Migration Choice
Mauro Lanati, Alessandra Venturini
published in: Review of World Economy, 2021, 157, 799 - 852
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11369
Reforms That Keep You at Home: The Effects of Economic Transition on Migration
Martin Guzi, Stepan Mikula
published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2022, 30 (2), 289-310
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11346
International Import Competition and the Decision to Migrate: Evidence from Mexico
Kaveh Majlesi, Gaia Narciso
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2018, 132, 75-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11345
The Effect of the H-1B Quota on the Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor
Anna Maria Mayda, Francesc Ortega, Giovanni Peri, Kevin Y. Shih, Chad Sparber
published in: European Economic Review, 2018, 108, 105-128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11343
The Labor Market Integration of Refugees to the United States: Do Entrepreneurs in the Network Help?
Olivier Dagnelie, Anna Maria Mayda, Jean Francois Maystadt
published in: European Economic Review, 2019, 111, 257-272
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11333
(The Struggle for) Refugee Integration into the Labour Market: Evidence from Europe
Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini, Luigi Minale
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2022, 22 (2), 351–393
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11332
Return Migration and Self-Employment: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan
Tilman Brück, Clotilde Mahe, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11330
Will Skill-Based Immigration Policies Lead to Lower Remittances? An Analysis of the Relations between Education, Sponsorship, and Remittances
Sankar Mukhopadhyay, Miaomiao Zou
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2020, 56 (3), 489-508
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11328
Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States 2006-2016
Julia Jauer, Thomas Liebig, John P. Martin, Patrick A. Puhani
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32, 1-22
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11282
Women and Migration
Francisca M. Antman
published in: Susan L. Averett, Laura M. Argys, and Saul D. Hoffman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, 731-747
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11281
The Economic Effects of Providing Legal Status to DREAMers
Francesc Ortega, Ryan Edwards, Amy Hsin
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2019, 9:2.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11280
Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Diasporas and Exports
Massimiliano Bratti, Luca De Benedictis, Gianluca Santoni
revised version published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 60(2), 249-272
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11279
China's "Great Migration": The Impact of the Reduction in Trade Policy Uncertainty
Giovanni Facchini, Maggie Y. Liu, Anna Maria Mayda, Minghai Zhou
published in: Journal of International Economics, 2019, 120, 126-144
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11173
Do Emigrants Self-Select along Cultural Traits? Evidence from the MENA Countries
Frédéric Docquier, Aysit Tansel, Riccardo Turati
published in: International Migration Review, 2020, 54 (2), 388-422.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11172
Migration and Co-Residence Choices: Evidence from Mexico
Simone Bertoli, Elie Murard
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142, Article 102330
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11171
Linguistic Distance, Networks and Migrants' Regional Location Choice
Julia Bredtmann, Klaus Nowotny, Sebastian Otten
published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 65, Article 101863
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11154
Foreign Ownership and Intra-Firm Union Density in Germany
Uwe Jirjahn
revised version published in: Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2021, 42 (4), 1052-1079
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11146
Migration Aspirations among NEETs in Selected MENA Countries
Raul Ramos
published in: Journal of Geographical Systems, 2019, 21 (4), 487-507
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11143
Immigrant Locations and Native Residential Preferences: Emerging Ghettos or New Communities?
Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Albert Saiz
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2019, 112, 133-151
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11103
The Intersection of the Fields of Entrepreneurship and Development Economics: A Review towards a New View
Jolanda Hessels, Wim Naudé
published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2019, 33 (2), 389 - 403
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11075
Immigrants' Residential Choices and Their Consequences
Christoph Albert, Joan Monras
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11061
Testing for Repugnance in Economic Transactions: Evidence from Guest Work in the Gulf
Michael A. Clemens
published in: Journal of Legal Studies, 2018, 47 (S1), S5 - S44
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10945
International Migration and Institutional Quality in the Home Country: It Matters Where You Go and How Long You Stay!
Ngoc Thi Minh Tran, Michael P. Cameron, Jacques Poot
published as "How robust is the evidence on the impact of diasporas on institutional quality in home countries?" in: Kyklos, 2021, 74(1), 126-152
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10928
Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions
Michael A. Clemens
published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, 124, 103355
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10927
Immigration Policy and Remittance Behaviour
Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Guy Tchuente
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10897
Do Environmental Regulations Effect FDI Decisions? The Pollution Haven Hypothesis Revisited
Haeyeon Yoon, Almas Heshmati
published in: Science and Public Policy, 2021, 48 (1), 122 - 131
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10891
Limits to Wage Growth: Understanding the Wage Divergence between Immigrants and Natives
Apoorva Jain, Klara Sabirianova Peter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10849
Do Refugees Impact Voting Behavior in the Host Country? Evidence from Syrian Refugee Inflows in Turkey
Onur Altindag, Neeraj Kaushal
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10843
Education, Governance, Trade and Distance: Impact on Technology Diffusion and the East Asia-Latin America Productivity Gap
Maurice Schiff
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10838
Public Opinion on Immigration in Europe: Preference versus Salience
Timothy J. Hatton
published as 'Public opinion on immigration in Europe: Preference and salience' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 66, 101969
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10837
International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills
Alexander Patt, Jens Ruhose, Simon Wiederhold, Miguel Flores
published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2021, 19(2), 1249-1298
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10805
Less Welfare or Fewer Foreigners? Immigrant Inflows and Public Opinion towards Redistribution and Migration Policy
Elie Murard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10802
Macroeconomic Determinants of International Migration to the UK
Giuseppe Forte, Jonathan Portes
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