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November 11, 2022

How firms adjust when they cannot hire foreigners for low-skill work

New study uses randomized work-visa restrictions to study the effect of low-skill immigration in the U.S.

  • labor migration
  • low-skilled workers
  • United States
  • Ethan G. Lewis
  • Michael A. Clemens
Research

November 19, 2018

Race-blind school admissions policy increases racial segregation

Rolling back integration efforts harms student outcomes

  • affirmative action
  • discrimination
  • education
  • magnet schools
  • racial segregation
  • schooling
  • student outcomes
  • United States
  • Jason Cook
Research

April 24, 2018

The moral hazard of life-saving innovations: Naloxone access, opioid abuse, and crime

By Jennifer Doleac and Anita Mukherjee The United States is grappling with an epidemic of opioid abuse and mortality. The […]

  • crime
  • drugs
  • health
  • moral hazard
  • mortality
  • risk
  • substance abuse
  • United States
  • Anita Mukherjee
  • Jennifer Doleac
Research

March 1, 2018

How China’s rise has challenged the benign view of free trade

The costs and benefits of free trade are one of the most contentious topics in economic policy. Economists often argue […]

  • China
  • free trade
  • globalization
  • labor market
  • United States
  • David Autor
Research

November 16, 2017

Economic costs of global warming

Climate change is considered one of the major challenges of the 21st century. While politicians and scientists at the COP23 […]

  • birth rates
  • China
  • climate change
  • economic outcomes
  • global warming
  • life expectancy
  • manufacturing
  • mortality
  • total factor productivity
  • United States
  • Alan I. Barreca
  • Joseph S. Shapiro
  • Junjie Zhang
  • Karen Clay
  • Kyle C. Meng
  • Melanie Guldi
  • Michael Greenstone
  • Olivier Deschenes
  • Peng Zhang
Research

May 24, 2017

Rise in earnings inequality is the biggest difficulty in today’s US labor market

A new IZA World of Labor report looking at the US labor market (2000-2016) finds a remarkable drop in the […]

  • earnings
  • Great Recession
  • income inequality
  • labor force participation
  • macro conditions
  • unemployment
  • United States
  • US labor market
  • Daniel S. Hamermesh
Research

February 14, 2017

Does modern technology slow down employment growth after recessions?

In the last 25 to 30 years, recoveries from recessions in the US have been plagued by weak employment growth. […]

  • automation
  • employment
  • job growth
  • jobless
  • labor market
  • recession
  • recovery
  • United States
  • Georg Graetz
  • Guy Michaels
Research

December 8, 2016

How deporting all undocumented workers would hurt the U.S. economy

Immigration issues are at the top of many western countries’ political agendas. The EU is still processing all of the […]

  • Donald Trump
  • employment
  • illegal immigration
  • legalization
  • migration
  • U.S. economy
  • unauthorized workers
  • United States
  • Francesc Ortega
  • Ryan Edwards
Research

April 5, 2016

How bad is involuntary part-time work?

By Daniel Borowczyk-Martins (Sciences Po and IZA) and Etienne Lalé (University of Bristol and IZA) When assessing the state of […]

  • involuntary part-time employment
  • labor market
  • labor market fluctuations
  • labor market research
  • part-time employment
  • unemployment
  • United States
  • welfare effects
  • Andrea Garnero
  • Daniel Borowczyk-Martins
  • Etienne Lalé
Videos

March 12, 2015

Barry Chiswick on the design of immigration policies

In a video interview, IZA Fellow Barry Chiswick (George Washington University) talks about the design of immigration policies. He explains […]

  • border enforcement
  • illegal migration
  • immigration polices
  • migration
  • OECD countries
  • United States
  • Barry Chiswick
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

August 20, 2014

How recessions produce career criminals

Recessions are known to create higher unemployment rates and lower levels of happiness and income. There is also growing evidence […]

  • arrest
  • crime
  • graduates
  • high school dropouts
  • labor market entry
  • recession
  • unemployment
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
  • Anna Bindler
  • Brian Bell
  • Stephen Machin
Research

July 7, 2014

How foreign language classes shape migration within the EU

Given the large differences in youth unemployment rates across Europe, one would expect young people to migrate from countries with […]

  • cohesion policy
  • Europe
  • foreign language studies
  • language
  • migration
  • United States
  • youth unemployment
  • Ainhoa Aparicio Fenoll
  • Zoë Kuehn
Research

January 13, 2014

Fighting crime: incarceration does not always help

Does putting people in jail make the world a safer place? A new IZA discussion paper by Magnus Lofstrom and […]

  • California
  • crime
  • incarceration
  • jail
  • safety
  • United States
  • Magnus Lofstrom
  • Steven Raphael
Opinion

October 23, 2013

How much unemployment insurance do we need?

By Rafel Lalive, Camille Landais and Josef Zweimüller The global crisis that erupted in 2008 has put millions of worker […]

  • Austria
  • benefit duration
  • generosity
  • Great Recession
  • job seekers
  • search effort
  • unemployment benefits
  • unemployment insurance
  • United States
  • Camille Landais
  • Josef Zweimüller
  • Rafel Lalive
Research

September 20, 2013

How to motivate workers? Money versus mission

How much harder do people work when they believe in the mission of their organization? And equally important: How much […]

  • compensation
  • elections
  • intrinsic motivation
  • mission
  • monetary incentives
  • NGO
  • Obama
  • organization
  • productivity
  • United States
  • Erick Gong
  • Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Research

May 15, 2013

Extended unemployment insurance did not affect U.S. unemployment rate

Unemployment insurance (UI) benefits typically are available for 26 weeks in the United States. In response to the Great Recession […]

  • crisis
  • Great Recession
  • job finding
  • unemployment benefits
  • unemployment insurance
  • unemployment rate
  • United States
  • Henry S Farber
  • Robert G. Valletta
Research

April 26, 2013

Blacks are still less happy than whites in the United States

In the United States the well-being of blacks is still below the well-being of whites. This has been shown by […]

  • civil rights
  • discrimination
  • labor market
  • prejudice
  • racial discrimination
  • subjetive well-being
  • United States
  • Betsey Stevenson
  • Justin Wolfers
Research

April 19, 2013

Search and mating: the effect of the Internet on marriage rates

Internet facilitates searching tremendously. This should not only be true when you shop online for books or software, but also […]

  • Internet
  • marriage market
  • mating
  • United States
  • Andriana Bellou

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