IZA Discussion Papers

Published as: Sweetman, Arthur and Jan C. van Ours. 2015. “Immigration: What about the Children and Grandchildren?” chapter 21 in B.R. Chiswick and P.W. Miller (eds). Handbook of the Economics of International Migration, Vol. 1b, Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 1141-93.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7748

How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?

Carl Lin

published in: Singapore Economic Review, 2016, 61(5), 1-38

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 [PDF]

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7725

The Economic Payoff of Name Americanization

Costanza Biavaschi, Corrado Giulietti, Zahra Siddique

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2017, 35 (4), 1089-1116. Pre-publication version available here. Online appendix available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7558

Immigrants from Eastern Partnership (EaP) Countries in Spain

Lídia Farré, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3:1

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7427

Earnings Growth of Mexican Immigrants: New versus Traditional Destinations

Neeraj Kaushal, Ce Shang

published in: IZA Journal of Migration 2013, 2:11

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7389

Negative and Positive Assimilation By Prices and By Quantities

Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller

published in: Australian Journal of Labour Economics, 2015, 18 (1)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7240

Does Better Pre-Migration Performance Accelerate Immigrants' Wage Assimilation?

Boris Hirsch, Elke J. Jahn, Ott Toomet, Daniela Hochfellner

published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 212-222

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7208

Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States

Carl Lin

published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21(2), 249-265

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7062

Immigrant Wage and Employment Assimilation: A Comparison of Methods

Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Barbara Hanel, Duncan McVicar

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6969

Socioeconomic Assimilation and Wealth Accumulation of Migrants in Australia

Matias Vaira-Lucero, Daehoon Nahm, Massimiliano Tani

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6953

Muslims in France: Identifying a Discriminatory Equilibrium

Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, Marie-Anne Valfort

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2014, 27 (4), 1039-1086

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6850

Migrants, Ethnicity and the Welfare State

Gil S. Epstein

published in: Korean Economic Review, 2012, 28 (2), 117-136.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6831

Assimilation through Marriage

Gil S. Epstein, Renana Lindner Pomerantz

published in: Review of International Economics, 2013, 21(2), 191–203.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6795

Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return Migration

Costanza Biavaschi

published in: Labour Economics, 2016, 38 (1), 59-80. Pre-publication version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6630

The Impact of Immigration on the Well-Being of Natives

Alpaslan Akay, Amelie F. Constant, Corrado Giulietti

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 103, 72–92. Pre-publication version available here

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6578

The Wage Premium of Foreign Education: New Evidence from Australia

Gavin Chan, Christopher Heaton, Massimiliano Tani

published in Australian Economic Review, 2013, 46(4), 395-404

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6543

Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level

Miguel Angel Alcobendas, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Raquel Vegas

published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6543

Wage and Occupational Assimilation by Skill Level

Miguel Angel Alcobendas, Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Raquel Vegas

published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6542

Moroccans', Ecuadorians' and Romanians' Assimilation in Spain

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Raquel Vegas

substantially revised version published as 'Do Moroccan Migrants to Spain Fare Better or Worse than Other Migrants?' in: Middle East Development Journal, 2014, 6 (2), 308 - 328

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6467

Cultural Integration: Experimental Evidence of Changes in Immigrants' Preferences

Lisa A. Cameron, Nisvan Erkal, Lata Gangadharan, Marina Zhang

published in Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, March 2015, 111, 38-58.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6368

Moroccans' Assimilation in Spain: Family-Based versus Labor-Based Migration

Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Raquel Vegas

published in: Middle East Development Journal, 2011, 3 (2), 119-139

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6319

Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6243

Assimilation in Multilingual Cities

Javier Ortega, Gregory Verdugo

revised version published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2015, 28(3), 785-815

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5964

Low-Skilled Immigrants and the U.S. Labor Market

Brian Duncan, Stephen Trejo

published as "The Employment of Low-Skilled Immigrant Men in the United States" in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102(3), 549-554

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. 5317

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

Lena Nekby

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. 5185

Assimilation and Integration of Immigrants in Europe

Mariya Aleksynska, Yann Algan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5141

Location Choices of Migrant Nest-Leavers: Spatial Assimilation or Continued Segregation?

Aslan Zorlu, Clara H. Mulder

published in: Advances in Life Course Research, 2010, 15 (2-3), 109 - 120

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. 4716

Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany

Leilanie Basilio, Thomas K. Bauer

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4655

Dynamics of the Employment Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden: Comparing Dynamic and Static Assimilation Models with Longitudinal Data

Alpaslan Akay

Substantially revised version published as 'Dynamics of Employment Assimilation' in IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 15:3

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4639

Are Foreign Migrants More Assimilated Than Native Ones?

Riccardo Faini, Steinar Strom, Alessandra Venturini, Claudia Villosio

published as 'Wage assimilation of immigrants and internal migrants: the role of linguistic distance' in: Regional Studies, 2018, 52, 1423-1434 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2017.1395003)

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. 4530

Labour Market Status and Migration Dynamics

Govert Bijwaard

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4394

Immigrants' Assimilation Process in a Segmented Labor Market

Miguel Angel Alcobendas, Núria Rodríguez-Planas

substantially revised version published in: A. Artal-Tur, G. Peri, F. Requena-Silvente, The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows: Effects on Trade, Remittances, Output, and the Labour Market (Population Economics Series), Springer, 2014

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4275

Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 3-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4234

Network Formations among Immigrants and Natives

Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4115

Economic and Cultural Gaps among Foreign-born Minorities in Spain

Sara de la Rica, Francesc Ortega

published as 'Cultural Integration in Spain' in: Algan, Bisin, Manning and Verdier (eds), Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe, Oxford University Press, 2012, 148-171

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4104

The Effect of the 2004 and 2007 EU Enlargement on the Spanish Labour Market

Sara de la Rica

published as 'The Experience of Spain with the Inflows of New Labor Migration' in: M.Kahanec; Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.): EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Berlin et al., 2009, 131 - 144

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. 3725

Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation among Immigrants: 1980-2000

Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn, Kerry L. Papps

published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93 (1), 43-58

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3649

The Portability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence for Spain

Esteban Sanromá, Raul Ramos, Hipólito Simón

published as 'Portability of Human Capital and Immigrant Overeducation in Spain' in: Population Research and Policy Review, 2015, 34(2), 223-241