IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15902

Train Drain? Access to Foreign Workers and Firms' Provision of Training

Maria Esther Oswald-Egg, Michael Siegenthaler

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15184

Best and Brightest? The Impact of Student Visa Restrictiveness on Who Attends College in the US

Mingyu Chen, Jessica Howell, Jonathan Smith

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15047

The Economics of Internal Migration: Advances and Policy Questions

Ning Jia, Raven Molloy, Christopher L. Smith, Abigail Wozniak

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14934

Opening Heaven's Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act

Giovanni Facchini, Timothy J. Hatton, Max F. Steinhardt

published in: Journal of Economic History, 2024, 84 (1), 232-270.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13748

U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Fertility

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo

published as 'Immigration policy and fertility: Evidence from undocumented migrants in the U.S' ´in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 189, 274 - 297

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13195

Immigrant Franchise and Immigration Policy: Evidence from the Progressive Era

Costanza Biavaschi, Giovanni Facchini

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13013

How Does Immigration Fit into the Future of the U.S. Labor Market?

Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny, Stephanie Gullo

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. 11486

The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement

Chloe N. East, Philip Luck, Hani Mansour, Andrea Velasquez

forthcoming in: The Journal of Labor Economics, 2023

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11370

Selective Immigration, Occupational Licensing, and Labour Market Outcomes of Foreign-Trained Migrants

Massimiliano Tani

revised version published as 'Occupational Licensing and the Skills Mismatch of Highly Educated Migrants' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2021, 59 (3), 730 - 756

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11241

Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants

Massimiliano Tani

published in: International Migration Review, 2020, 54 (1), 35-57

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10771

U.S. Immigration Reform and the Dynamics of Mexican Migration

Khulan Altangerel, Jan C. van Ours

published in: De Economist, 2017, 165 (4), 463-485.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10689

Immigration and Innovation: Evidence from Canadian Cities

Joel Blit, Mikal Skuterud, Jue Zhang

published as 'Can skilled immigration raise innovation? Evidence from Canadian Cities' in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2020, 20 (4), 879 - 901

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10602

On the Implications of Immigration Policy Restricting Citizenship: Evidence from the Dominican Republic

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Carlos Gratereaux Hernández, Susan Pozo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10368

Scholarship, the Law and Immigration Policy

Don J. DeVoretz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10235

Immigrant Crime and Legal Status: Evidence from Repeated Amnesty Programs

Francesco Fasani

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2018, 18 (4), 887–914

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9759

Open Borders, Transport Links and Local Labor Markets

Olof Aslund, Mattias Engdahl

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9666

What Drives the Legalization of Immigrants? Evidence from IRCA

Alessandra Casarico, Giovanni Facchini, Tommaso Frattini

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 70, 258-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9545

Illegal Immigration and the Shadow Economy

Carmen Camacho, Fabio Mariani, Luca Pensieroso

published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2017, 24, 1050-1080

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9418

Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the New European Agenda on Migration

Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Hillel Rapoport

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:23

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8744

The Impact of Temporary Protected Status on Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes

Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2015, 105, 576-580

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. 8682

New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada's Evolving Approach to the Selection of Economic Immigrants

Ana Ferrer, Garnett Picot, W. Craig Riddell

published in: International Migration Review, 2014, 48 (3), 846-867

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. 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. 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. 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. 7992

How Do E-Verify Mandates Affect Unauthorized Immigrant Workers?

Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny

published as 'The Impact of E-Verify Mandates on Labor Market Outcomes' in: Southern Economic Journal, 2015, 81, 947-959

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. 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. 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. 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. 6937

Does Immigration Policy Affect the Education-Occupation Mismatch? Evidence from Australia

Massimiliano Tani

published in: Australian Bulletin of Labour, 2012, 38(2), 111-141

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6742

Liability-of-Foreignness Effects on Job Success of Immigrant Job Seekers

Tony Fang, Al-Karim Samnani, Milorad M. Novicevic, Mark N. Bing

published in: Journal of World Business (Columbia); 2013, 48 (1), 98–109

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6546

The Impact of the 1996 US Immigration Policy Reform (IIRIRA) on Mexican Migrants' Remittances

Matias Vaira-Lucero, Daehoon Nahm, Massimiliano Tani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6433

Skill Based Immigrant Selection and Labor Market Outcomes by Visa Category

Abdurrahman B. Aydemir

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 23, 432-452

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6238

Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship

Stephane Mahuteau, Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Matias Vaira-Lucero

published in: International Migration, 2014, 52(2), 53 - 65

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6233

Pulls of International Student Mobility

Martin Kahanec, Renáta Králiková

shortened version published as 'Higher Education Policy and Migration: The Role of International Student Mobility' in: CESifo DICE Report, 2012, 9(4), 20-27

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6104

Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport, Sara Salomone

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (5), 817-28

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. 5754

Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled: Measuring the Impact of Immigration Policy on Employers and Shareholders

Carl Lin

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. 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. 4273

Immigration to the Land of Redistribution

Tito Boeri

published in: Economica, 2010, 77 (308), 651-687

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3950

Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Guillermina Jasso

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 26-42

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3936

Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival

J. David Brown, Julie L. Hotchkiss, Myriam Quispe-Agnoli

published as 'Does Employing Undocumented Workers Give Firms a Competitive Advantage?' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 158-170

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3564

Selection Criteria and the Skill Composition of Immigrants: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and U.S. Employment Immigration

Guillermina Jasso, Mark R. Rosenzweig

published in: Jagdish Bhagwati and Gordon H. Hanson (eds.), Skilled Migration Today: Phenomenon, Prospects, Problems, Policies. New York: Oxford, 2009

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3512

From Individual Attitudes towards Migrants to Migration Policy Outcomes: Theory and Evidence

Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda

published in: Economic Policy, No. 56, October 2008, 651 - 713

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3489

Do Migrants Get Good Jobs in Australia? The Role of Ethnic Networks in Job Search

Stephane Mahuteau, Pramod N. (Raja) Junankar

published in: Economic Record, 2008, 84, S115-130

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3190

Migration to Sweden from the New EU Member States

Eskil Wadensjö

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3183

Do Interest Groups Affect Immigration?

Giovanni Facchini, Anna Maria Mayda, Prachi Mishra

published in: Journal of International Economics, 2011, 85, 114-128

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2830

Illegal Migration, Enforcement and Minimum Wage

Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2008, 28, 197-224

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2499

The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants

Graziella Bertocchi, Chiara Strozzi

revised version published as "International Migration and the Role of Institutions" in: Public Choice, 2008, 137(1), 81-102

IZA Discussion Paper No. 2197

A History of Canadian Recruitment of Highly Skilled Immigrants: Circa 1980-2001

Don J. DeVoretz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1715

Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy: A European Perspective

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 194 (1), 94-105

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1419

Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: What Immigration Policy Can Do!

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006, 121-148

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1410

European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials

Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: De Economist, 2005, 153 (4), 425-450

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1304

International Migration in the Long-Run: Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy

Timothy J. Hatton, Jeffrey G. Williamson

published in: D. Snower (ed.) Labour Mobility and the World Economy, Kiel: Kiel Institute for World Economics, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1104

Selection or Network Effects? Migration Flows into 27 OECD Countries, 1990-2000

Peder J. Pedersen, Mariola Pytlikova, Nina Smith

revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (7), 1160-1186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1087

The Political Economy of Social Exclusion with Implications for Immigration Policy

Mark Gradstein, Maurice Schiff

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2006, 19 (2), 327-344

IZA Discussion Paper No. 830

Emigration from the UK, 1870-1913 and 1950-1998

Timothy J. Hatton

published in: European Review of Economic History, 2004, 8 (2), 149-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 819

Brain Drain and LDCs' Growth: Winners and Losers

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport

new version entitled "Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries: winners and losers" published in: Economic Journal, 2008, 118 (528), 515-843

IZA Discussion Paper No. 788

Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany – Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects

Felix Büchel, Joachim R. Frick

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2004, 17 (3), 553–581

IZA Discussion Paper No. 437

Evaluating Immigration Policy Potentials and Limitations

Michael Fertig

IZA Discussion Paper No. 363

Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Heather Antecol, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Stephen Trejo

published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2003, 38 (1), 192-218

IZA Discussion Paper No. 199

Rational Migration Policy Should Tolerate Non-Zero Illegal Migration Flows: Lessons from Modelling the Market for Illegal Migration

Horst Entorf

published in: International Migration, 40 (1), 2002, 27-43

IZA Discussion Paper No. 170

Immigration Policy in Integrated National Economies

Thomas K. Bauer, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: C. Lankowski (ed.): Responses to Globalization in Germany and the United States, AICGS Research Report No. 10, Washington, D. C., 1999, 15-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 165

Immigration in a High Unemployment Economy: The Recent Danish Experience

Peder J. Pedersen

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.): European Migration - What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 125

The Income Portfolio of Immigrants in Germany - Effects of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation Or: Who Gains from Income Re-Distribution?

Felix Büchel, Joachim R. Frick

published as 'Income Composition and Redistribution in Germany: The Role of Ethnic Origin and Assimilation' in: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly Journal of Economic Research, 2001, 70 (1), 135-145

IZA Discussion Paper No. 97

Irish Migration: Characteristics, Causes and Consequences

Alan Barrett

published in: Zimmermann, K. F. (ed.), European Migration: What Do We Know?, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 89

Aliyah to Israel: Immigration under Conditions of Adversity

Shoshana Neuman

published in: Zimmermann, Klaus F. (ed.), European Migration: What Do We Know, 2005, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 459-506

IZA Discussion Paper No. 88

Migration in Spain: Historical Background and Current Trends

Olympia Bover, Pilar Velilla

published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration: What Do We Know?, CEPR and OUP, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 81

Migration, Migrants and Policy in the United Kingdom

Timothy J. Hatton, Stephen Wheatley Price

published in: Zimmermann, K. (ed.), European Migration: What Do We Know? Oxford University Press, 2005

IZA Discussion Paper No. 68

Ethnic German Immigration from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to Germany: the Effects of Migrant Networks

Barbara Dietz

IZA Discussion Paper No. 50

Ethnic German Migration since 1989 - Results and Perspectives/ Aussiedler seit 1989 - Bilanz und Perspektiven

Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2000, 1, 225-237

IZA Discussion Paper No. 20

Portuguese Migrants in the German Labor Market: Performance and Self-Selection

Thomas K. Bauer, Pedro T. Pereira, Michael Vogler, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: International Migration Review, 2002, 36 (2), 467-491

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13

Sorties from the Fortress: The Current System of Anti-Immigration Policy in Germany

Ralph Rotte

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8

Das Entsendegesetz: Suendenfall oder Loesung des Arbeitslosigkeitsproblems?

Ralph Rotte, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Staatswissenschaften und Staatspraxis, 1998, 9 (2), 191-208

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7

Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt: Eine oekonomische Perspektive

Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Boesler, Klaus-Achim/ Heinritz, Günter/ Wiessner, Reinhard (Hrsg.), Europa zwischen Integration und Regionalismus, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1998, 56-66

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