IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Immigration and the political economy of public education' in: G. Freeman and N, Mirilovic (eds.), Handbook of Migration and Social Policy. Elgar, 2016, 121–136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8747

On the Economic Geography of International Migration

Caglar Ozden, Christopher Parsons

published in World Economy 2015, 39 (4), 478–495

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8746

A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility: The Role of Non-OECD Destinations

Erhan Artuc, Frédéric Docquier, Caglar Ozden, Christopher Parsons

published in: World Development, 2015, 65, 6 - 26

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8745

Informing Migration Policies: A Data Primer

Calogero Carletto, Jennica Larrison, Caglar Ozden

published in: R. E. B. Lucas (ed.), International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development, Elgar, 2014, 9–41

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8743

Migration and the Demographic Shift

Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann

substantially revised version published in: Piggott, J. and A. Woodland (Eds.), Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, Elsevier, North Holland, 2016, Vol. 1A, Ch. 3, 119-177.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8690

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants during Transition and Enlargements

Daniela Andrén, Monica Roman

published in: Kahanec, M., and Zimmermann, K.F. (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer, 2016, 247-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8684

The Impact of Skilled Foreign Workers on Firms: An Investigation of Publicly Traded U.S. Firms

Anirban Ghosh, Anna Maria Mayda, Francesc Ortega

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8683

Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Hillel Rapoport

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (3-4), 638-672

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8681

Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006

Ekrame Boubtane, Jean-Christophe Dumont, Christophe Rault

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, 2016, 68 (2), 340 - 360

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8632

Immigration and Crime: New Empirical Evidence from European Victimization Data

Luca Nunziata

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28 (3), 697-736

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. 8625

Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework

Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

published as 'Ethnic identity: a theoretical framework' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 4:9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8614

Can Immigrants Help Women "Have it All"? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions

Delia Furtado

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4 (19)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8607

Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows

Delia Furtado

published in: Demography, 2016, 53 (1), 27-53

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8592

Does Development Reduce Migration?

Michael A. Clemens

published in: Robert E.B. Lucas, ed. (2014), International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development. London: Edward Elgar, Chap. 6, pp. 152–185.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8576

Understanding the Role of Immigrants' Legal Status: Evidence from Policy Experiments

Francesco Fasani

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61(3-4), 722-763

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8574

Immigration, Search, and Redistribution: A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

Michele Battisti, Gabriel Felbermayr, Giovanni Peri, Panu Poutvaara

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018,16 (4), 1137 - 1188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8571

Ethnic Identity and Work

Amelie F. Constant

published in: J.D. Wright (ed) the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015, 106-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8541

Earnings and Employment in Foreign-Owned Firms

David C. Maré, Lynda Sanderson, Richard Fabling

published in: In W. Cochrane, M. P. Cameron, & O. Alimi (Eds.), Labor markets, migration, and mobility: Essays in honor of Jacques Poot, Springer Nature, 2021, 1 - 40

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8523

Evidence on Policies to Increase the Development Impacts of International Migration

David McKenzie, Dean Yang

published in: World Bank Research Observer, 2015, 30(2), 155-92

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8521

Emigration, Remittances and Corruption Experience of Those Staying Behind

Artjoms Ivlevs, Roswitha M. King

published as "Does emigration reduce corruption?" in: Public Choice, 2017, 171 (3-4), 389–408

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8520

In Transit: The Well-Being of Migrants from Transition and Post-Transition Countries

Milena Nikolova, Carol Lee Graham

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 112, 164-186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8509

Estimating Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Firm Productivity in the Presence of Interactions between Firms

Sourafel Girma, Yundan Gong, Holger Görg, Sandra Lancheros

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2015, 95 (1), 157-169

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8507

European Innovation Dynamics and US Economic Impact: Theory and Empirical Analysis

Paul J. J. Welfens, Tony Irawan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8463

Birthplace Diversity and Productivity Spill-overs in Firms

René Böheim, Thomas Horvath, Karin Mayr

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8458

On the Intended and Unintended Consequences of Enhanced Border and Interior Immigration Enforcement: Evidence from Deportees

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Pozo

Demography , 2014, 51, 2255 - 2279

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8457

The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration

Giovanni Facchini, Cecilia Testa

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2021, 129 103415

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8456

The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment

Martin Kahanec, Mariola Pytlikova, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2016, 1-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8432

Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic Co-authorship within the US

Richard B. Freeman, Wei Huang

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (3), S1 / Part 2, S289-S318.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8410

Migration, Economic Crisis and Adjustment in the UK

Ken Clark, Stephen Drinkwater, Catherine Robinson

revised version published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement and the Great Recession, Berlin: Springer, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8409

Immigration, Cultural Distance and Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants: Evidence from Swiss Voting Results

Beatrice Brunner, Andreas Kuhn

revised version published in: Kyklos, 2018, 71(1), 28-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8408

Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden

Christer Gerdes, Eskil Wadensjö

published in: Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Berlin: Springer, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8407

Labour Market Progression of Canadian Immigrant Women

Alicia Adsera, Ana Ferrer

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 39, 88 - 98

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8352

International Migration of Couples

Martin Junge, Martin D. Munk, Panu Poutvaara

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8342

Immigration, Naturalization, and the Future of Public Education

Ryuichi Tanaka, Lídia Farré, Francesc Ortega

published as 'Immigration, assimilation, and the future of public education' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2018, 52 (C), 141-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8326

Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency

Daehoon Nahm, Massimiliano Tani

published in Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, 2015, 20, 594–612

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8292

Immigrants, Labor Market Performance, and Social Insurance

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

published in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (580), F644-F683

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8291

Labour Migrant Adjustments in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

published in: Tarmo Valkonen and Vesa Vihriälä (eds.): The Nordic model – challenged but capable of reform, TemaNord 2014:531

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8254

Globalization and Wage Convergence: Mexico and the United States

Davide Gandolfi, Timothy J. Halliday, Raymond Robertson

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8250

Does Foreign Language Proficiency Foster Migration of Young Individuals within the European Union?

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll, Zoë Kuehn

published in: B.-A. Wickstroem and M. Gazzola (eds.), The Economics of Language Policy, MIT Press, 2016

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8249

Did Post-Enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia

Martin Kahanec, Lucia Mýtna Kureková

published in: M. Kahanec and K.F. Zimmermann (eds.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2016, 1-34

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8248

Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?

Timothy J. Hatton

published as 'Immigration, Public Opinion and the Recession in Europe' in: Economic Policy, 2016, 86, 205-246

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8195

Return Migration, Self-Selection and Entrepreneurship in Mozambique

Catia Batista, Tara McIndoe Calder, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2017, 79, 797–821.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8165

Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany

Verena Dill, Uwe Jirjahn, Stephen C. Smith

published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2016, 40(1), 123-140

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8151

Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program

Carlo Devillanova, Francesco Fasani, Tommaso Frattini

published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2018, 71 (4), 853-881

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8106

Remittances and Household Expenditure Behaviour in Senegal

Teresa Randazzo, Matloob Piracha

substantially revised version published as 'Remittances and household expenditure behaviour: Evidence from Senegal' in: Economic Modelling, 2019, 79, 141-153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8090

Linguistic Barriers in the Destination Language Acquisition of Immigrants

Ingo E. Isphording, Sebastian Otten

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 105, 30–50.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8085

FDI Impact on Firm Performance in Enlarged Europe: Evidence from a Meta-Regression Analysis

Randolph Luca Bruno, Maria Cipollina

published in: World Economy,, 2018, 41 (5), 1342-1377

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8073

Do Immigrants Bring Good Health?

Osea Giuntella, Fabrizio Mazzonna

published in: Journal of Health Economics ,2015, 43, 140–153

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8067

Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps: A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows

Maryam Naghsh Nejad, Andrew T. Young

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8066

International Labor Mobility and Child Work in Developing Countries

Anna De Paoli, Mariapia Mendola

published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (4), 678-702.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8063

Immigrants and Firms' Productivity: Evidence from France

Cristina Mitaritonna, Gianluca Orefice, Giovanni Peri

published in: European Economic Review, 2017, 96, 62 - 82

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8061

The Two-Step Australian Immigration Policy and its Impact on Immigrant Employment Outcomes

Bob Gregory

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8035

Is a Policy of Free Movement of Workers Sustainable?

Pierre M. Picard, Tim Worrall

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2016, 118 (4), 718-75

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8007

Remittances and Child Labour in Africa: Evidence from Burkina Faso

Olivier B. Bargain, Delphine Boutin

published as 'Remittance Effects on Child Labour: Evidence from Burkina Faso' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2015, 51 (7), 922-938

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7985

The Slump and Immigration Policy in Europe

Timothy J. Hatton

published in: P. Bevelander and B. Petersson (eds.), Crisis and Migration: Implications of the Eurozone crisis for perceptions, politics, and policies of migration, Nordic Academic Press 2014, Lund, Sweden, Chapter 2, 25-47

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7984

Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Catia Batista, Janis Umblijs

published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2016, 68 (1), 108-130.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7983

When Do Remittances Facilitate Asset Accumulation? The Importance of Remittance Income Uncertainty

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Pozo

published as 'Remittance income uncertainty and asset accumulation' in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2014, 3:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7980

The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Toman Omar Mahmoud, Hillel Rapoport, Andreas Steinmayr, Christoph Trebesch

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2017, 9(3): 36-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7955

Brain Drain, Educational Quality and Immigration Policy: Impact on Productive Human Capital in Source and Host Countries, with Canada as a Case Study

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7921

Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States

Julia Jauer, Thomas Liebig, John P. Martin, Patrick A. Puhani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7867

International Human Trafficking: Measuring Clandestinity by the Structural Equation Approach

Alexandra Rudolph, Friedrich Schneider

published in: Social Inclusion, 2017, 5 (2), 39 - 58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7866

Two Centuries of International Migration

Joseph Ferrie, Timothy J. Hatton

published in: Barry Chiswick and Paul Miller (eds.): Handbook on the Economics of International Migration, 1A

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7865

Let's Be Selective about Migrant Self-Selection

Costanza Biavaschi, Benjamin Elsner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7864

Institutionalized Inequality and Brain Drain: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Women's Rights on the Gender Gap in High-Skilled Migration

Maryam Naghsh Nejad

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7863

Migrant Networks and the Spread of Misinformation

Benjamin Elsner, Gaia Narciso, Jacco J. J. Thijssen

published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2018, 80 (3), 659-688

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7839

Migrant Remittances and Information Flows: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Catia Batista, Gaia Narciso

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2018, 32(1), 203–219.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7827

Do Business Visits Cause Productivity Growth?

Massimiliano Tani, Roselyne Joyeux

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7824

When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Jan Svejnar, Katherine Terrell

published in : Journal of Comparative Economics, 2014, 42(4), 954-969

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7800

Incentive Pay and Performance: Insider Econometrics in a Multi-Unit Firm

Hein Bogaard, Jan Svejnar

published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 54, 100 - 115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7796

Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Entrepreneurship: Blessing or Curse?

Seçil Hülya Danakol, Saul Estrin, Paul Reynolds, Utz Weitzel

published as 'Foreign direct investment via M&A and domestic entrepreneurship: blessing or curse?' in: Small Business Economics, 2017, 48 (3), 599 - 612

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7781

Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

Catia Batista, Janis Umblijs

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:17

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7780

The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?

Marion Mercier

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 122, 76-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7779

Remittances and Migration Intentions of the Left-Behind

Matloob Piracha, Amrita Saraogi

published in: Migration and Development, 2016, 6(1), 102-122

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7749

Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous Skills, Migration Networks and the Effectiveness of Quality-Selective Immigration Policies

Simone Bertoli, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, 117 (2), 565-591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7747

"To Have and Have Not": Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria

David N. Margolis, Luis Miotti, El Mouhoub Mouhoud, Joël Oudinet

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7732

Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster?

Govert Bijwaard, Jackline Wahba

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 108, 54-68

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7728

'Barcelona or Die': Understanding Illegal Migration from Senegal

Linguère Mously Mbaye

revised version published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3, 21 (2014)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7726

Migration and Financial Constraints: Evidence from Mexico

Manuela Angelucci

revised version published in: The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2015, 97(1), 224-228

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7696

Internationalisation of Education and Returns in the Labour Market

Jacques Poot, Matthew Roskruge

published in: Studies in Regional Science, 2013, 43(1), 61-78

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7666

Money for Nothing? Ukrainian Immigrants in Poland and their Remitting Behaviors

Pawel Kaczmarczyk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7665

UK Migration Policy and Migration from Eastern Partnership Countries

Ken Clark, Stephen Drinkwater

revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3(1), Article 15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7664

Costs and Benefits of Labor Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries: The Case of Poland

Maciej Duszczyk, Marek Góra, Pawel Kaczmarczyk

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7658

Labor Market Transparency

Eskil Wadensjö

published in: Jens Forssbaeck and Lars Oxelheim (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Economic and Institutional Transparency, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7647

Regional Variations in Attitudes Towards Refugees: Evidence from Great Britain

Heaven Crawley, Stephen Drinkwater, Rukhsana Kauser

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7636

Corruption, Networking and Foreign Ownership: Recent Evidence from CEE Countries

Sarmistha Pal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7634

Mobility in an Enlarging European Union: Projections of Potential Flows from EU's Eastern Neighbors and Croatia

Michael Fertig, Martin Kahanec

published as 'Projections of Potential Flows to the Enlarging EU from Ukraine, Croatia and other Eastern Neighbors' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4:6

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7582

Remittances and Occupational Outcomes of the Household Members Left-Behind

Matloob Piracha, Teresa Randazzo, Florin Vadean

substantially revised version published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (2), 278 - 293

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7568

Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity

Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2016, 21 (2), 101-138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7549

Immigrants, Household Production and Women's Retirement

Giovanni Peri, Agnese Romiti, Mariacristina Rossi

published in: Labour Economics, 2015, 36, 18-34