IZA Discussion Papers

published as 'Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous' in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2016, 31 (4), 652-677

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5904

Migration and Stratification

Guillermina Jasso

published in: Social Science Research, 2011, 40 (5), 1292 - 1336

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5883

There Goes the Neighborhood? People’s Attitudes and the Effects of Immigration to Australia

Mathias Sinning, Matthias Vorell

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5864

Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora

Alireza Naghavi, Chiara Strozzi

revised and updated version published as 'Intellectual Property Rights, Diasporas, and Domestic Innovation' in: Journal of International Economics, 2015, 96(1), 150–161

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5853

Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country: Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries

Ekrame Boubtane, Dramane Coulibaly, Christophe Rault

published in: Economic Modelling, 2013, 33, 261-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5786

International Migration, Imperfect Information, and Brain Drain

Vianney Dequiedt, Yves Zenou

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 102, 62-78.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5775

Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany

Agnieszka Kanas, Barry R. Chiswick, Tanja van der Lippe, Frank van Tubergen

published in: International Migration Review, 2012, 46 (3), 680-709

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5765

Tradable Immigration Quotas

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Hillel Rapoport

Published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 115, 94-108

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5750

Immigration and Status Exchange in Australia and the United States

Kate H. Choi, Marta Tienda, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Mathias Sinning

published in: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2012, 30 (1), 49-62

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5730

Eight Questions about Brain Drain

John Gibson, David McKenzie

published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011, 25 (3), 107-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5724

Religiosity and Migration: Travel into One's Self versus Travel across Cultures

Mariya Aleksynska, Barry R. Chiswick

published as 'The Determinants of Religiosity among Immigrants and the Native Born in Europe' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (4), 563-598; reprinted in: The Economics of Cultural Diversity, 2015, edited by Peter Nijkamp et al.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5715

Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits: Facts, Concepts, Issues

Robert Holzmann, Johannes Koettl

published in: CESifo Economic Studies, 2015, 61 (2), 377– 415,

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5707

Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data

Thomas K. Bauer, Regina Flake, Mathias Sinning

published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21 (2), 370-385

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5657

Network Effects on Migrants' Remittances

Ainoa Aparicio Fenoll

published as 'Immigrant Networks and Remittances: Cheaper Together?' in: World Development, 2018 111 (C), 225-245

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5650

China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Amelie F. Constant, Bienvenue N. Tien, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Jingzhou Meng

published in: Journal of Contemporary China, 2013, 22 (79), 109-130.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5641

Migration, Transfers and Child Labor

Ralitza Dimova, Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Review of Development Economics, 2015, 19 (3), 735-747.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5604

The Aggregate Effects of Trade and Migration: Evidence from OECD Countries

Francesc Ortega, Giovanni Peri

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5590

Globalization, Brain Drain and Development

Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport

published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2012, 50 (3), 681-730

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5589

Egyptian Men Working Abroad: Labor Supply Responses by the Women Left Behind

Christine Binzel, Ragui Assaad

revised version published in: Labour Economics, 2011, 18 (S1), S98-S114

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5582

Drivers and Impacts in the Globalization of Corporate R&D: An Introduction Based on the European Experience

Pietro Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Marco Vivarelli, Peter Voigt

published in: Industrial and Corporate Change, 2011(2), 20, 585-603

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5568

Remittances and Income Smoothing

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Pozo

published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 582-587

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5561

What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes

Giovanni Facchini, Max F. Steinhardt

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2011, 95, 734-743

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5559

The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index

Seo-Young Cho, Axel Dreher, Eric Neumayer

revised version published as 'Determinants of Anti-Trafficking Policies: Evidence from a New Index' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (2), 429-454

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5498

Savings, Asset Holdings, and Temporary Migration

Christian Dustmann, Josep Mestres

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5496

Emigration and Democracy

Frédéric Docquier, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Hillel Rapoport, Maurice Schiff

strongly revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120, 209-223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5492

The Labor Market Value to Legal Status

Fernando A. Lozano, Todd A. Sorensen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5472

Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence

Elke Holst, Andrea Schäfer, Mechthild Schrooten

published as "Gender and Remittances: Evidence from Germany" in: Feminist Economics, 2012, 18 (2), 201-229

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5441

Labour Market Outcomes and Skill Acquisition in the Host Country: North African Migrants Returning Home from the European Union

Stephane Mahuteau, Massimiliano Tani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5436

Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge

Massimiliano Tani

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2014, 40, 293-324

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5420

Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability, and Linguistic Distance

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2012, 6 (1), 35-55

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5399

High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe

Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Barry R. Chiswick (ed.), High Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market, Washington DC, The AEI Press, 2011. 264-314

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5397

Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview

Martin Kahanec, Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 1-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5396

Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants

Amelie F. Constant, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann

revised version published in: Applied Economics Letters, 2017, 24 (13), 945-949

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5395

Selective Immigration Policies, Migrants' Education and Welfare at Origin

Simone Bertoli, Herbert Brücker

published in: Economics Letters, 2011, 113 (1), 19-22

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5385

Labor Market Effects of Trade and FDI: Recent Advances and Research Gaps

Michael P. Pflüger, Uwe Blien, Joachim Möller, Michael Moritz

published in revised form in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2013, 233 (1), 86-116

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5380

Economic Preferences and Attitudes of the Unemployed: Are Natives and Second Generation Migrants Alike?

Amelie F. Constant, Annabelle Krause-Pilatus, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 825-851

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5376

Macroeconomic Impact of Remittances on Output Growth: Evidence from Turkey

Aysit Tansel, Pınar Yaşar

published in: Migration Letters, 2010, 7 (2), 132-143

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5353

African Leaders: Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows

Amelie F. Constant, Bienvenue N. Tien

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5328

Empirical Methods in the Economics of International Immigration

Fernando A. Lozano, Michael D. Steinberger

published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva et al. (eds.) Handbook on Research Methods on Migration, Edward Elgar, 2012

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5317

Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited: It's Probably Who You Are, Not Who You Marry!

Lena Nekby

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5308

Inter-ethnic Marriage and Partner Satisfaction

Mathias Sinning, Shane Worner

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5259

Do Foreign-Owned Firms Provide Better Working Conditions Than Their Domestic Counterparts? A Comparative Analysis

Alexander Hijzen, Pedro S. Martins, Thorsten Schank, Richard Upward

published as 'Foreign-owned firms around the world: A comparative analysis of wages and employment at the micro-level' in: European Economic Review, 2013, 60, 170-188

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5252

Foreign Acquisitions, Domestic Multinationals, and R&D

Roger Bandick, Holger Görg, Patrik Karpaty

published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2014, 116 (4), 1091-1115

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5237

Immigrant Networks and U.S. Bilateral Trade: The Role of Immigrant Income

Kusum Mundra

published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 357-373

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5211

The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand

Jacques Poot, Steven Stillman

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 5 (18), 1-23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5207

Occupational Choice of Return Migrants in Moldova

Daniela Borodak, Matloob Piracha

published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (4), 24-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5185

Assimilation and Integration of Immigrants in Europe

Mariya Aleksynska, Yann Algan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5134

Foreign Labour Migration and the Economic Crisis in the EU: Ongoing and Remaining Issues of the Migrant Workforce in Germany

Anna Myunghee Kim

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5129

The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians

Jiong Tu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5128

Explaining the Labour Market Outcomes of First, Second and Third Generation Immigrants in Canada

Jiong Tu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5125

Experimental Approaches in Migration Studies

David McKenzie, Dean Yang

published in: Carlos Vargas-Silva (ed.), Handbook of Research Methods in Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012, 249-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5124

The Economic Consequences of "Brain Drain" of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries

John Gibson, David McKenzie

published in: Economic Journal, 2012, 122 (560), 339 - 375

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5123

Migration and Culture

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Epstein, Gil S. and Gang, Ira N. (eds.): Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald: 2010

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5075

The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 67-103

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5059

A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics

Gil S. Epstein, Ira N. Gang

published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 325-339

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5051

Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace

Gil S. Epstein, Yosef Mealem

published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 193-203

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5048

Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde

Catia Batista, Aitor Lacuesta, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2012, 97 (1), 32-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4996

Crime and Immigration: Evidence from Large Immigrant Waves

Brian Bell, Stephen Machin, Francesco Fasani

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95, 1278-90

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4957

Crossing the Border: Self-Selection, Earnings and Individual Migration Decisions

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Francesc Ortega

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 101, 75-91

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4951

Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad

Takao Kato, Chad Sparber

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (1), 109-126

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4938

Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade

Maurice Schiff

published as 'Small States, Micro States, and their International Negotiation and Migration' in: Journal of Economic Integration, 2014, 29 (3), 430-449

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4936

Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers

Carol McAusland, Peter J. Kuhn

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2011, 95 (1), 77-87

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4923

Trade and Migration with Renewable Natural Resources: Out-of-Steady-State Dynamics

Ramón López, Maurice Schiff

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 104, 1-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4900

The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey

Timothy J. Hatton

published in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2010, 24 (5), 941–969

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4899

Source Country Characteristics and Immigrants' Migration Duration and Saving Decisions

Murat Güray Kirdar

published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:8

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4874

Selection Policy and Immigrants' Remittance Behaviour

Stephane Mahuteau, Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani

revised as DP 10927

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4852

Shutdown Contests in Multi-Plant Firms and Governmental Intervention

Matthias Kräkel

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4828

Offshoring, Tasks, and the Skill-Wage Pattern

Daniel Baumgarten, Ingo Geishecker, Holger Görg

published in: European Economic Review, 2013, 61 (1), 132-152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4744

The Effect of Enclave Residence on the Labour Force Activities of Immigrants in Canada

Jiong Tu

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4742

Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany

Alexander M. Danzer, Firat Yaman

revised version published as 'Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants: Evidence from the guest-worker placement in Germany' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2016, 131(A), 151-165

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4735

The Working Hours of Immigrants in Germany: Temporary versus Permanent

Martin Kahanec, Michael P. Shields

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2013, 2:14

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4722

Wage Inequality, Linkages and FDI

Nigel Driffield, Sourafel Girma, Michael Henry, Karl Taylor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4688

Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment

Catia Batista, Pedro C. Vicente

published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2011, 25 (1), 77-104

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4683

International Specialization and the Return to Capital

Catia Batista, Jacques Potin

published in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Advances), 2015, 15 (2), 467-508

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4675

Cultural Integration in Germany

Amelie F. Constant, Olga Nottmeyer, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Yann Algan, Alberto Bisin, Alan Manning and Thierry Verdier (eds.): Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe, Oxford: OUP, 2012, Chapter 3, 69-124

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4660

Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed

Amelie F. Constant, Martin Kahanec, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 753-776

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4620

Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: M. N. Jovanovic (ed.), International Handbook on the Economics of Integration, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2011, 145 - 168. Revised version published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann, International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, pp. 13-36.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4617

New Evidence on the Role of Remittances on Health Care Expenditures by Mexican Households

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Pozo

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2011, 9 (1), 69-98.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4616

Gender Differences in Native Preferences towards Undocumented and Legal Immigration: Evidence from San Diego

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Thitima Puttitanun

published in: Contemporary Economic Policy, 2011, 29 (1), 31-45

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4615

Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe: For Money or Colonial Vestiges?

Amelie F. Constant, Bienvenue N. Tien

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4605