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March 20, 2024

Vocational language courses boost skills but struggle to directly improve job prospects

Research report analyzes impact on labor market integration

  • immigration
  • labor market integration
  • language
Research

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

  • EU
  • freedom of movement
  • housing
  • immigration
  • Switzerland
  • Aderonke Osikominu
  • Fabienne Helfer
  • Volker Grossmann
Research

December 19, 2022

Immigration or automation?

Low-skill immigration to Denmark slowed robot adoption

  • automation
  • Denmark
  • immigration
  • labor supply
  • robots
  • Dario Pozzoli
  • Katja Mann
Research

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

  • Brexit
  • crime
  • hate
  • immigration
  • social norms
  • UK
  • Joanna Clifton-Sprigg
  • Joel Carr
  • Jonathan James
  • Suncica Vujic
Research

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

  • Finland
  • immigration
  • Sweden
  • Laura Ansala
  • Matti Sarvimäki
  • Olof Aslund
Research

April 18, 2019

Firms owned by immigrant entrepreneurs innovate more

New study compares foreign-born with U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries

  • entrepreneurship
  • immigration
  • innvoation
  • J. David Brown
  • John S. Earle
  • Kyung Min Lee
  • Mee Jung Kim
Research

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

  • attitudes
  • Europe
  • immigration
  • redistribution
  • welfare
  • Alberto Alesina
  • Elie Murard
  • Hillel Rapoport
Research

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

  • expellees
  • immigration
  • natives
  • redistribution
  • refugees
  • taxation
  • voting
  • welfare
  • Andreas Lichter
  • Arnaud Chevalier
  • Benjamin Elsner
  • Nico Pestel
Research

August 13, 2018

Challenges and successes in refugee integration

New insights from international economic research

  • economic development
  • educational attainment
  • housing
  • immigration
  • integration
  • language
  • refugee
  • segregation
  • socioeconomic outcomes
  • Alexander M. Danzer
  • Binnur Balkan
  • Carsten Feuerbaum
  • Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
  • Cynthia Bansak
  • Elie Murard
  • Elif Ozcan Tok
  • Huzeyfe Torun
  • Jake Anders
  • Jonathan Portes
  • Ludger Woessmann
  • Marc Piopiunik
  • Semih Tumen
  • Seyhun Orcan Sakalli
  • Simon Burgess
  • Susan Pozo
Opinion

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 […]

  • amnesty
  • citizenship
  • DACA
  • Dreamers
  • immigration
  • legalization
  • U.S. economy
  • Bernard Black
  • Cynthia Bansak
  • David D. Laitin
  • Duncan Lawrence
  • Esther Yoona Cho
  • Fernando Mendoza
  • Jens Hainmueller
  • Jonas J. Swartz
  • Linna Martén
  • Lucila Figueroa
  • Maria I. Rodriguez
  • Michael Hotard
  • Tomás R. Jiménez
Research

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 […]

  • globalization
  • human capital
  • human capital polarization
  • immigration
  • immigration policy
  • Italy
  • low-skilled
  • low-skilled workers
  • Elisabetta Lodigiani
  • Giorgio Brunello
  • Lorenzo Rocco
Research

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 […]

  • anti-immigration movement
  • attitudes
  • extremism
  • immigration
  • immigration polices
  • migration
  • public information campaigns
  • Salience
  • Alexis Grigorieff
  • Christopher Roth
  • Diego Ubfal
  • Giovanni Facchini
  • Hiroyuki Nakata
  • Ingo E. Isphording
  • Nico Pestel
  • Tommaso Colussi
  • Yotam Margalit
Opinion

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 […]

  • Germany
  • immigration
  • integration
  • labor market
  • refugee crisis
Research

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 […]

  • assimilation
  • Canada
  • global mobility
  • immigration
  • immigration policy
  • integration
  • labor market
  • labor market performance
  • language
  • linguistic proximity
  • Alicia Adsera
  • Ana Ferrer
Research

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 […]

  • brain drain
  • Development
  • emigration
  • high-skilled migration
  • immigration
  • refugees
  • skill gap
  • Giovanni Peri
  • Justin Sandefur
  • Mathis Christoph Wagner
  • Mette Foged
  • Michael A. Clemens
  • Ximena Vanessa Del Carpio
Research

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 […]

  • circular migration
  • Denmark
  • EU
  • European Union
  • immigration
  • immigration policies
  • integration
  • labor market
  • refugee
  • refugee crisis
  • refugees
  • Turkey
  • work permit
  • Evren Ceritoglu
  • Giovanni Peri
  • H. Burcu Gurcihan Yunculer
  • Hillel Rapoport
  • Huzeyfe Torun
  • Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga
  • Mette Foged
  • Semih Tumen
Research

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. […]

  • African Americans
  • anti-discrimination laws
  • color discrimination
  • discrimination
  • equal treatment
  • immigration
  • pay penalty
  • police violence
  • race
  • sexual orientation discrimination
  • skin color
  • social mobility
  • Joni Hersch
Research

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 […]

  • citizenship
  • employment
  • Germany
  • immigration
  • IZA World of Labor
  • labor market
  • migration
  • naturalization
  • Christina Gathmann
Research

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 […]

  • development cooperation
  • diaspora
  • Europe
  • immigration
  • population
  • United States
  • Amelie F. Constant
  • Chris Giacomantonio
  • Corrado Giulietti
  • Flavia Tsang
  • Jennifer Rubin
  • Jirka Taylor
  • Linguère Mously Mbaye
  • Maryam Naghsh Nejad
Research

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 […]

  • baby
  • childcare
  • female labor supply
  • fertility
  • immigration
  • labor supply
  • low-skilled workers
  • USA
  • Delia Furtado
Research

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 […]

  • China
  • Dutch Freedom Party
  • election
  • Front National
  • immigration
  • Italy
  • Lega Nord
  • migration
  • parliament
  • political choices
  • Roman Prodi
  • Silvio Berlusconi
  • Alessio D'Ignazio
  • Guglielmo Barone
  • Guido de Blasio
  • Paolo Naticchioni
Research

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 […]

  • book presentation
  • economics
  • immigration
  • Alex Nowrasteh
  • Amelie F. Constant
  • George J. Borjas
Research

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 […]

  • China
  • Dutch Freedom Party
  • election
  • Front National
  • immigration
  • Italy
  • Lega Nord
  • migration
  • parliament
  • political choices
  • Roman Prodi
  • Silvio Berlusconi
  • Alessio D'Ignazio
  • Guglielmo Barone
  • Guido de Blasio
  • Paolo Naticchioni
Research

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 […]

  • citizenship
  • Germany
  • immigration
  • integration
  • labor market
  • migration
  • Christina Gathmann
  • Nicolas Keller
Research

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 […]

  • healthy immigrant effect
  • immigration
  • physically demanding jobs
  • working conditions
  • Fabrizio Mazzonna
  • Osea Giuntella
Research

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 – […]

  • agglomeration
  • clustering
  • ethnic identity
  • ethnic segregation
  • Germany
  • guestworkers
  • immigration
  • integration
  • parallel societies
  • social cohesion
  • Amelie F. Constant
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Simone Schüller
OpinionResearch

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 […]

  • anti-immigration movement
  • demographic change
  • employment
  • Europe
  • European Union
  • Germany
  • immigration
  • migration
  • UK
  • welfare migration
  • worker mobility
  • Amelie F. Constant
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Martin Kahanec
Research

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 […]

  • admission policy
  • high-income countries
  • high-skilled
  • immigration
  • labor migration
  • liberalization
  • migration
  • population aging
  • welfare migration
  • Martin Ruhs
Research

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 […]

  • immigration
  • integration
  • language
  • linguistic distance
  • literacy
  • Ingo E. Isphording
Research

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 […]

  • European Union
  • immigration
  • migration
  • unemployment benefits
  • Corrado Giulietti
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Martin Guzi
  • Martin Kahanec
Research

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 […]

  • employment
  • Europe
  • immigration
  • labor market career
  • mobility
  • self-employment
  • Carlo V. Fiorio
  • Cristina Cattaneo
  • Giovanni Peri
Research

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 […]

  • economics
  • immigration
  • Gordon B. Dahl
  • Roger Gordon

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