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52 IZA Discussion Papers
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. 14934
Opening Heaven's Door: Public Opinion and Congressional Votes on the 1965 Immigration Act
Giovanni Facchini, Timothy J. Hatton, Max F. Steinhardt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13748
U.S. Immigration Policy and Immigrant Fertility
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Esther Arenas-Arroyo
forthcoming in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
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
forthcoming in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11486
The Labor Market Effects of Immigration Enforcement
Chloe N. East, Philip Luck, Hani Mansour, Andrea Velasquez
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 (first published online February 5th 2019)
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
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. 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
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
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. 8248
Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?
Timothy J. Hatton
Published as: “Immigration, Public Opinion and the Recession in Europe,” Economic Policy, 86 (2016), pp 205-246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7992
How Do E-Verify Mandates Affect Unauthorized Immigrant Workers?
Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny
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. 6433
Skill Based Immigrant Selection and Labor Market Outcomes by Visa Category
Abdurrahman 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. 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. 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. 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. 2197
A History of Canadian Recruitment of Highly Skilled Immigrants: Circa 1980-2001
Don J. DeVoretz
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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;
see IZA Reprints 4/99
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;
see IZA Reprints 8/99
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