Posts tagged with 'immigration'
March 20, 2024
Vocational language courses boost skills but struggle to directly improve job prospects
Research report analyzes impact on labor market integration
March 3, 2023
How immigration affects housing costs
Study from Switzerland shows that free movement agreement with EU substantially raised prices of owner-occupied housing
December 19, 2022
Immigration or automation?
Low-skill immigration to Denmark slowed robot adoption
December 14, 2020
Brexit referendum vote caused an increase in hate crime
Effect was concentrated in the first quarter after the referendum and was larger in areas that voted to leave the EU
April 16, 2020
Do immigrants integrate differently in new and traditional host countries?
New study shows that immigrants enter the Finnish and Swedish labor markets in a remarkably similar manner
April 18, 2019
Firms owned by immigrant entrepreneurs innovate more
New study compares foreign-born with U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries
March 15, 2019
Immigration and attitudes toward redistribution in Europe
How the share of immigrants at the regional level affects popular support for welfare policies
August 30, 2018
Immigration of poor voters increases redistribution
West German cities responded with higher taxes and welfare spending to post-WWII inflow of forced migrants
August 13, 2018
Challenges and successes in refugee integration
New insights from international economic research
January 24, 2018
‘Dreamers’ could give US economy – and even American workers – a boost
By Amy Hsin (City University of New York) Earlier this month, hopes were high that a bipartisan deal could be […]
November 8, 2017
Low-skilled immigration causes human capital polarization in Italy
While there is a vast literature considering the labor market effects of immigration, less has been done to investigate how […]
March 3, 2017
Decoding attitudes towards migrants
The recent political success of right-wing populists in the US and in many European countries is often attributed to a […]
May 2, 2016
The right mix of migrants to meet Germany’s needs
“In past decades, Germany has made great strides with the integration of foreigners. Those achievements must be defended prudently and […]
November 30, 2015
The effect of linguistic proximity on immigrants’ labor market performance
With the current increase of global mobility, immigration policy has jumped to the forefront of the political agenda. Immigration can […]
November 10, 2015
Interview with Michael Clemens on smart policy toward high-skill emigration
IZA World of Labor, the unique online resource for evidence-based policymaking, has now published over 200 articles! The author of […]
October 8, 2015
From challenge to opportunity: Europe and the refugee crisis
Up until recently, many Europeans knew images of large refugee camps and desperate families trying to cross borders only from […]
August 13, 2015
Color discrimination remains a big problem in the U.S. — Interview with new IZA JoLE Editor Joni Hersch
A year after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer in Ferguson, the U.S. […]
February 12, 2015
Immigrants and host countries benefit from liberalized access to citizenship
Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that many immigrants fail to integrate economically. Research shows that the option […]
January 20, 2015
How can host governments best engage with diaspora groups? IZA and RAND Europe analyze EU and US diasporas
Policymakers increasingly see possibilities in interacting with diaspora communities to improve relationships with their countries of origin and as a […]
December 8, 2014
American women respond to immigration inflows by having more children
The hot debate about President Obama’s immigration reform shows that many Americans still view immigrants as taking jobs away from […]
June 17, 2014
Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and politics: How immigration shapes natives’ political preferences
International migration is a global phenomenon, widely studied in the literature. An important but less investigated issue concerns the role […]
June 16, 2014
Immigration Economics, hot off the press!
On June 11, in the Hayek Auditorium of Cato Institute and in front of an audience of 200 people, IZA […]
June 14, 2014
Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and politics: How immigration shapes natives’ political preferences
International migration is a global phenomenon, widely studied in the literature. An important but less investigated issue concerns the role […]
May 16, 2014
Becoming a German citizen pays for female immigrants
Today there are ten million immigrants living in Germany, accounting for 13 percent of the whole population. At the same […]
May 9, 2014
Do immigrants improve the health of native workers?
In the public debate, immigration is often blamed for increased healthcare costs and taxpayer burden. However, empirical evidence shows that […]
February 24, 2014
Ethnic segregation: boon or bane for cultural integration?
Immigrants are not evenly distributed within countries: they tend to agglomerate in mainly urban areas. In the public eye – […]
October 21, 2013
Welfare benefits are no magnet for migrants
EU commissioner Laszlo Andor has been under fire since he claimed last week that welfare tourism is “neither widespread nor […]
October 11, 2013
“The Price of Rights”: How to regulate international labor migration
Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the […]
May 11, 2013
Immigrant integration: Linguistic distance impedes literacy
Language acquisition of immigrants is crucially affected by the dissimilarity between the immigrant’s mother tongue and the language of the […]
April 5, 2013
The Guardian reports on IZA study: No ‘welfare migration’ within EU
According to a comprehensive study of 19 European countries over a period from 1993 to 2008, national differences in unemployment […]
March 29, 2013
What happens to the careers of European workers when immigrants “take their jobs”?
A new IZA Discussion paper by Cristina Cattaneo, Carlo V. Fiorio and Giovanni Peri evaluates the effect of immigrants on […]
February 20, 2013
Economists agree on key economic questions
Ask two doctors and you get two opinions, ask two economists and you get three. It often seems that professional […]