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IZA Journal of Migration and IZA Journal of Labor and Development have merged to form the IZA Journal of Development and Migration. The archives of published articles in IZA Journal of Migration and IZA Journal of Labor and Development are available here.
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At the height of the US civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, foreign-born persons were less than 1 % of the African-American population (Kent, Popul Bull, 62:4, 2007). Today, 16 % of America’s African diasp...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:17
Published on: 12 September 2016
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Labour market integration is a social process suggesting that personality traits are relevant. This paper explores whether immigrants with a higher belief in their ability to control outcomes tend to be more l...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:16
Published on: 26 August 2016
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (Ind Lab...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:15
Published on: 11 August 2016
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Since the 1970s, economic restructuring and shifts in industries have morphed the occupational path of workers, curbing socioeconomic mobility for many—wages of African-American workers which have trended upwa...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:14
Published on: 26 July 2016
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This paper investigates the dynamics of immigrants’ employment assimilation in comparison with the standard static assimilation model. When the effect of past employment experience on current employment possib...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:13
Published on: 12 July 2016
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This paper investigates the impact of cultural diversity on labour market outcomes, particularly on wages across regions using a large longitudinal data. We apply an instrumental variable approach and account ...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:12
Published on: 28 June 2016
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This paper examines the remittance behaviour of multiple-sibling migrants and the motivations of Kenyan siblings in sending remittances to their household of origin. The presence of other siblings is found to ...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:11
Published on: 10 June 2016
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Large immigration flows during the 1995–2007 period increased the weight of foreigners living in Spain to 12 % of the total population. The rapid increase in unemployment associated with the Great Recession an...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:10
Published on: 27 May 2016
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Using the 2006 Census, we create a continuous index that quantifies the relatedness between 1375 fields of study and 520 occupations for native-born workers and use it as the benchmark reflecting the “common” ...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:9
Published on: 13 May 2016
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We exploit the regional variation in negative attitudes towards immigrants to Sweden in order to analyse the consequences of negative attitudes on refugees’ utility from labour income and amenities. We find th...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:8
Published on: 29 April 2016
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This paper investigates how immigration can affect the labor market outcomes of native workers when their wages are rigid. I use a rich dataset for France and decompose the native workers according to whether ...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:7
Published on: 13 April 2016
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This paper assesses the intergenerational effect of immigrant parents’ incorporation experiences, measured as time in Sweden, on the educational performance of their children, using full Swedish population reg...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:6
Published on: 29 March 2016
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During the 2000s, several states adopted laws requiring employers to verify new employees’ eligibility to work legally in the USA. This study uses data from the 2005–2014 American Community Survey to examine h...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:5
Published on: 10 March 2016
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Between 1984 and 1993, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:4
Published on: 25 February 2016
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Recent studies suggest that migrants may be less satisfied with their ‘new’ lives than members of the host population and worry that this may be driven by cultural factors, such as feelings of not belonging. M...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:3
Published on: 11 February 2016
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This paper analyzes the determinants of migration duration focusing on family composition and human capital. A utility maximization model is built to show that migrants face a trade-off between avoiding psychi...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:2
Published on: 28 January 2016
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This article explores the effect of remittances on the prevalence and intensity of child labor in Bolivia. Using household survey data, we find that children in remittance-receiving households are less likely ...
IZA Journal of Migration 2016 5:1
Published on: 18 January 2016
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We propose a theory of free movement of goods and labor between two economies in the presence of moral hazard. Each country produces two final goods where the productive efforts of workers cannot be perfectly ...
IZA Journal of Migration 2015 4:24
Published on: 29 December 2015
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States—looking both over time with immigrants’ residence in the Un...
IZA Journal of Migration 2015 4:23
Published on: 10 December 2015
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Although many OECD countries use skilled migration to boost economic performance, there is surprisingly little direct empirical evidence concerning what effects historical initiatives in this area have had. Th...
IZA Journal of Migration 2015 4:22
Published on: 27 November 2015
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This study uses the nationally representative Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to identify systematic differences in earnings returns to human capital endowments for formal and informal sector workers in rur...
IZA Journal of Migration 2015 4:21
Published on: 13 November 2015
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As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, five million Russian and Russian-speaking people repatriated to Russia during 1990–2002. I use this natural experiment to study labor market assimilation of mig...
IZA Journal of Migration 2015 4:20
Published on: 28 October 2015
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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force part...
IZA Journal of Migration 2015 4:19
Published on: 13 October 2015
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Switzerland changed its migration policy in the 1990s from a “non-qualified only” policy to one of almost free movement of labor. To analyze the impact of this policy change on the schooling outcomes of childr...
IZA Journal of Migration 2015 4:18
Published on: 25 September 2015
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This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile ...
IZA Journal of Migration 2015 4:17
Published on: 10 September 2015
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