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80 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
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