Policy pointers

Immigration & Refugees

Does Employment Protection Help Immigrants?

IZA

This 45-page paper studies the effect of employment protection legislation on immigrants and native workers in Spain and Italy

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2008-03-28

Remittances and Chain Migration: Longitudinal Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina

IZA

This 24-page paper examines the possibility for remittances to trigger chain migration

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-04-09

Brain Drain in Globalization: A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective

IZA

This 47-page discussion paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts

Globalisation & International Trade, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-06-23

Low-Skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools

IZA

This 59-page discussion paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to publicly or privately funded schools

Education, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-02-01

Migration, The Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

IZA

This 29-page discussion paper considers some of the impacts of the migration of labour

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2008-07-04

The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific

IZA

A 53-page discussion paper based on research in 3 Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-01-26

Ethnicity, Assimilation and Harassment in the Labour Market

IZA

A 29-page discussion paper examining the causes of discrimination against ethnic minorities in labour markets

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2008-07-25

The Effect of Community-Level Socio-Economic Conditions on Threatening Racial Encounters

IZA

This 40-page discussion paper analyzes the relationship between local socio-economic conditions and the propensity for outsiders to have threatening racial encounters with insiders.

Immigration & Refugees, Social PolicyPosted: 2008-11-24

Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women

IZA

This 50-page discussion paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women

Families, Children & Youth, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-07-10

What Affects International Migration of European Science and Engineering Graduates?

IZA

This 37-page discussion paper analyses the determinants of labour migration after graduation for science and engineering graduates

Science & Technology, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-07-10

Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labour Market: Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter?

IZA

This 27-page discussion paper analyses the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2009-05-12

Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain

IZA

This 34-page discussion paper estimates empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over the period 1998-2008

Housing, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-08-13

Immigrants in a Booming Economy: Analyzing Their Earnings and Welfare Dependence

IZA

A 24-page discussion paper examining the earnings and welfare dependence of immigrants to Ireland, compared with the native population

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2006-11-28

Canadian Immigration Policy and Immigrant Economic Outcomes: Why the Differences in Outcomes between Sweden and Canada?

IZA

A 27-page discussion paper in which Canada’s immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration experience

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2011-04-03

Who Leaves and Who Returns?

IZA

A 39-page discussion paper investigating the factors driving immigration self-selection

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2008-01-21

Immigrant Welfare Receipt Across Europe

IZA

This 26-page discussion paper finds very little evidence that immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments when all payments are considered together

Immigration & Refugees, European UnionPosted: 2011-03-09

Are Immigrants More Mobile than Natives? Evidence from Germany

IZA

A 46-page discussion paper comparing the labour mobility of immigrants to Germany with that of natives

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2007-12-30

A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain

IZA

This 35-page discussion paper researches gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain drain

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2007-12-30

Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives

IZA

This 43-page discussion paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962-1999

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-02-14

Migrant Ethnic Identity: Concept and Policy Implications

IZA

A 25-page discussion paper investigating the challenges and potentials of migration from an EU perspective

Immigration & Refugees, European UnionPosted: 2007-10-10

Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?

IZA

This 23-page discussion paper compares the determinants of religious identity for Muslims and non-Muslims in the UK

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2007-09-07

Circular Immigration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country

IZA

A 26-page discussion paper examining the character of circular/repeat immigation to Germany

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2007-09-03

A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country's Migrants

IZA

A 33-page discussion paper presenting a rich profile of the young developing world migrants across the globe

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2007-08-08

Is the Minimum Wage a Pull Factor for Immigrants?

IZA

This 25-page discussion paper studies the impact of the minimum wage on immigration

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-01-17

Skilled Migration: The Perspective of Developing Countries

IZA

This 43-page discussion paper focuses on the effects of skilled migration on developing countries

International Development, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2007-07-09

Optimizing Immigration Policy: Permanent, Guest-Worker or Mode IV?

IZA

This 25-page discussionpaper examines the comparative merits of alternative immigration policies

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2007-07-09

When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State

IZA

This 52-page discussion paper compares the lifecycle employment profiles of non-Western migrants to Norway with those of native Norwegians

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2007-07-09

Illegal Immigration, Enforcement and Minimum Wage

IZA

A 31-page discussion paper examining the connection between illegal migration, minimum wages and enforcement policy

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2007-06-26

Immigration and Innovation in European Regions

IZA

This 33-page discussion paper measures the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions

Immigration & Refugees, European UnionPosted: 2011-05-18

The Effects of Naturalization on Immigrants

IZA

This 28-page discussion paper analyzes the link between naturalization and the labour force status of immigrants in France

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2008-03-11

International Mobility of the Highly Skilled, Endogenous R&D, and Public Infrastructure Investment

IZA

This 46-page discussion paper analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labour, income gaps and optimum public infrastructure investment

Immigration & Refugees, Science & TechnologyPosted: 2008-03-11

Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants

IZA

This 31-page discussion paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country

Immigration & Refugees, EducationPosted: 2011-12-16

Disparities in Social Assistance Receipt between Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

IZA

This discussion paper investigates social assistance receipt among immigrants compared with receipt among natives in Sweden

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-12-09

The Social Assimilation of Immigrants

IZA

This 34-page discussion paper examines the social integration of immigrants into host countries within Europe

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2006-11-21

Immigrant Participation in Welfare Benefits in the Netherlands

IZA

This 21-page discussion paper examines the degree of participation in social assistance, disability and unemployment benefits across ethnic groups using register data of the entire population in the Netherlands

Immigration & Refugees, Social PolicyPosted: 2011-12-09

How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution: International Analyses

IZA

This 40-page discussion paper studies the determinants of the distribution of earnings among the native-born and immigrants in the US and Australia

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2006-11-06

Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

IZA

A 21-page discussion paper exploring the integration of Christian and Muslim immigrants to Germany

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2006-10-08

Multilateral Resistance to Migration

IZA

This 53-page discussion paper looks at the influence exerted by other destinations on bilateral migration flows

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2011-09-29

Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Migration: An Empirical Analysis in Developing Countries

IZA

The aim of this 32-page discussion paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by studying the migration rates and the education level in developing countries

Immigration & Refugees, Climate Change & EnvironmentPosted: 2011-09-09

Immigration: High Skilled vs. Low Skilled Labor?

IZA

This 23-page policy analysis paper, prepared for the Productivity Commission of Australia, explores the implications for the host country population of alternative immigration policies. The two immigration options considered are a policy based on admitting primarily high-skilled workers and another that has the effect of admitting primarily low-skilled workers. The implications for the native-born population for their aggregate level of income, the distribution of their income by skill level, and the size of the income redistribution system are considered

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-07-27

The Impact of Labour Market Dynamics on the Return-Migration of Immigrants

IZA

A 29-page discussion paper estimating the causal effects of labour dynamics on the return decisions of new labour immigrants

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-06-07

Meta-Analysis of Empirical Evidence on the Labour Market Impact of Immigration

IZA

This 41-page discussion paper examinies the effect of immigration on a broad range of labour market outcomes

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2008-04-24

Eight Questions about Brain Drain

IZA

This 30-page discussion paper builds upon a new wave of empirical research to answer eight key questions underlying much of the brain drain debate

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-06-07

Labor Market Effects of Immigration: Evidence from Neighborhood Data

IZA

This 22-page discussion paper combines individual-level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with economic and demographic postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities of high- and low-skilled natives

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-05-26

How Immigrant Children Affect the Academic Achievement of Native Dutch Children

IZA

This 35-page discussion paper analyzes how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children

Education, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2012-01-09

Measuring Skilled Emigration Rates: The Case of Small States

IZA

A 32-page discussion paper focusing on the international mobility of skilled people from small states

Immigration & Refugees, International DevelopmentPosted: 2008-03-17

Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview

IZA

This 41-page discussion paper sheds light on the labour market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union

Immigration & Refugees, European UnionPosted: 2011-01-10

Inter-ethnic Marriage and Partner Satisfaction

IZA

This 18-page discussion paper investigates immigrant assortative mating and relationship satisfaction

Families, Children & Youth, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2010-11-24

The Economic Consequences of "Brain Drain" of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries

IZA

This 45-page discussion paper presents the results of surveys which tracked academic high-achievers from five countries to wherever they moved in the world in order to directly measure at the micro level the channels through which high-skilled emigration affects the sending country

Immigration & Refugees, Economic PolicyPosted: 2010-08-29

Reconciling the Estimates of Potential Migration into the Enlarged European Union

IZA

This 35-page discussion paper reviews the literature on potential migration into the enlarged EU and reconciles the results with recent evidence

European Union, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2006-12-28

Does Immigration Induce 'Native Flight' from Public Schools? Evidence from a Large Scale Voucher Program

IZA

A 31-page discussion paper examining the correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of opting out from public schools for private alternatives

Education, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2010-04-13

Returning to the Question of a Wage Premium for Returning Migrants

IZA

A 22-page discussion papere stimating the extent to which people who have emigrated from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have never lived abroad

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-02-24

Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

IZA

A 20-page discussion paper analyzing the determinants of ethnic self-identification by immigrants

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2007-01-03

Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy

IZA

A 29-page discussion paper studying the causes of underperformance by immigrant students

Immigration & Refugees, EducationPosted: 2009-11-13

Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: An Analysis for Germany

IZA

This 33-page discussion paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2010-03-04

Employment Integration of Refugees: The Influence of Local Factors on Refugee Job Opportunities in Sweden

IZA

A 45-page discussion paper studying the importance of local conditions for the employment of refugees in Sweden

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2007-01-22

Immigration, Citizenship, and the Size of Government

IZA

A 36-page discussion paper analyzing the political sustainability of the welfare state in an environment where immigration is the main demographic force and where governments are able to influence the size and skill composition of immigration flows

Immigration & Refugees, Social PolicyPosted: 2009-11-15

Does Immigration Affect Wages? A Look at Occupational-Level Evidence

IZA

This 35-page discussion paper examines the effect of higher levels of immigration on the wages of natives

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2006-12-12

Immigrants at New Destinations: How They Fare and Why

IZA

This discussion paper identifies the determinants of immigrants’ earnings in the Portuguese labour market

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-04-29

Migration and Culture

IZA

This 30-page discussion paper is concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the sending areas, and people already living in the recipient locations

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2010-08-29

The Impacts of International Migration on Remaining Household Members: Omnibus Results from a Migration Lottery Program

IZA

A 45-page discussion paper addressing the impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining household members

Immigration & Refugees, International DevelopmentPosted: 2009-09-10

Immigrants' Assimilation Process in a Segmented Labor Market

IZA

This 55-page discussion paper studies how immigrants assimilate into a country without an established tradition of receiving immigrants

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-09-18

Do Non-Economic Quality of Life Factors Drive Immigration?

IZA

This 23-page discussion paper generates two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL) indices and tests their role on recent migration patterns

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-09-24

Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Children in Sweden in Three Metropolitan Areas

IZA

This 42-page discussion paper investigates issues of economic and ethnic segregation in Swedish cities from the perspective of children

Immigration & Refugees, Social PolicyPosted: 2007-12-04

Looking Inside the Perpetual-Motion Machine: Job and Worker Flows in OECD Countries

IZA

This discussion paper uses cross-country comparable data on both job and worker flows to examine key determinants of these flows and of their cross-country differences

Employment, Industrial Relations & Training , Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-10-15

Oppositional Identities and Employment for Ethnic Minorities: Evidence from England

IZA

This 27-page discussion paper aims to analyze the potential trade-off for ethnic minorities between sticking to their own roots and labour market success

Immigration & Refugees, Social PolicyPosted: 2009-11-12

The Economic Situation of First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK

IZA

This 41-page discussion paper presents and discusses comparative evidence on the performance of first- and second-generation immigrants in these three European countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment

Immigration & Refugees, European UnionPosted: 2009-11-12

Cultural Integration in Germany

IZA

This 57-page discussion paper investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation

Immigration & Refugees, Social PolicyPosted: 2010-01-15

Sri Lanka: What Role for the EU?

ISS

This 4-page article looks at the role the EU – and the West in general – has played so far, including in the most recent round of failed peace negotiations, and assesses what it can most usefully do now.

Immigration & Refugees, Internal DisplacementPosted: 2009-05-21

Changing Perceptions of Islamic Authority among Muslims in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom

IRRP

This 32-page study provides insight into Muslims' views on immigrant integration by examining how their perceptions of religious authority shape their engagement with broader society

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-03-24

Racial Inequality, Social Cohesion and Policy Issues in Canada

IRPP

This 57-page Canadian paper investigates whether racial inequality has an effect on social cohesion

Immigration & Refugees, Social PolicyPosted: 2007-02-09

Multiple Citizenship, Identity and Entitlement in Canada

IRPP

This 36-page study examines the issue of multiple citizenship

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2010-07-14

The Impact of Economic Selection Policy on Labour Market Outcomes for Degree-Qualified Migrants in Canada and Australia

IRPP

This 52-page study compares Canadian and Australian economic migration policy

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2008-05-16

Do Admission Criteria and Economic Recessions Affect Immigrant Earnings?

IRPP

A 40-page Canadian study comparing the outcomes of skills-assessed immigrants with those of immigrants who entered in other classes, and to examine the impact of economic cycles on immigrants’ earnings

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2011-11-15

The Economic Integration of Immigrants into Metropolitan Vancouver

IRPP

This 44-page Canadian report provides basic knowledge about the economic outcomes of immigrants to metropolitan Vancouver based on characteristics such as language ability, educational attainment, year of arrival, gender, age, country of origin and admission class

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-07-25

The Economic Integration of Immigrants in Metropolitan Vancouver

IRPP

This 44-page Canadian paper provides a detailed portrait of the economic outcomes of immigrants in Vancouver, based on key characteristics such as language ability, educational attainment, year of arrival, gender, age, country of origin and category of admission

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-07-08

Crimes against Humanity in Western Burma: The Situation of the Rohingyas

Irish Centre for Human Rights

A 154-page report on the persecution of a minority Muslim group in Burma

Human Rights, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2010-08-12

The Limits to Limits: Is a Cap on Immigration a Viable Policy for the UK?

IPPR

This 17-page briefing is an attempt to work through the implications of a cap on immigration to the UK

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2010-04-07

Measuring Migration’s Development Impacts: Preliminary Evidence from Jamaica

IPPR

This 39-page UK report is part of a research project aiming to examine the impact of migration on development

International Development, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-02-27

Maximising the Development Outcomes of Migration: A Policy Perspective

IPPR

This 27-page UK paper maps and explores the policy territory for improving migration's development impacts, including but also going beyond migration policy and development policy

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-07-23

Easing the Strain: Understanding Brain Drain and Where Policy Can Respond

IPPR

This 20-page UK report attempts to synthesise theresults of a number of surveys of migrants and people intending to migrate, in order to develop a typology of factors driving brain drain

Immigration & Refugees, International DevelopmentPosted: 2009-05-26

Development on the Move

IPPR

This 11-page executive summary of a UK report argues that migration should not be viewed as a 'problem' for development

International Development, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2010-05-20

Inside Madrassas: Understanding and Engaging with British-Muslim Faith Supplementary Schools

IPPR

A 74-page UK report presenting research that has been undertaken by IPPR to generate a stronger evidence base on the operation and impact of madrassas in the UK

Education, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2011-12-07

Development on the Move: Measuring and Optimising Migration’s Economic and Social Impacts

IPPR

This 68-page UK report takes a fresh look at the ways in which migration affects development in Jamaica. It also looks at the wide range of impacts that migration has on development

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-06-16

Your Place or Mine? The Local Economics of Migration

IPPR

This 31-page UK working paper illustrates how migration affects local firms and economies

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2008-09-16

The Limits to Limits: Is a cap on Immigration a Viable Policy for the UK?

IPPR

This 17-page UK briefing is an attempt to work through the implications of a cap on immigration to the UK

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2010-05-03

Show Me the Money (and Opportunity)

IPPR

This UK article describes recent work to better understand both brain drain — the departure of skilled migrants from their place of origin to another country — and brain circulation, defined here as skilled people returning to their home countries

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2010-04-23

Development on the Move: Measuring and Optimising Migration’s Economic and Social Impacts

IPPR

The 11-page executive summary of a UK study examining a wide range of migration’s impacts on development, by conducting primary research in seven countries

International Development, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2010-05-31

Shall We Stay or Shall We Go? Re-migration Trends Among Britain's Immigrants

IPPR

The 6-page executive summary of a UK report that sets out to quantify and analyse re-migration from the United Kingdom, and to understand what motivates immigrants to leave

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-08-12

Conflict Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect

IPI

The 82-page report of a task force created to consider aspects of conflict prevention and the responsibility to protect

Disarmament & Peacekeeping, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2009-04-15

Migration, Development and Natural Disasters: Insights from the Indian Ocean Tsunami

IOM

This 94-page study discusses the interactions between natural disasters, development and migration

Public Safety & Disaster Mitigation, Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2007-07-16

World Migration 2008: Managing Labour Mobility in the Evolving Global Economy

International Organization for Migration

This 562-page report seeks to identify policy options that might contribute to the development of broad and coherent strategies to better match demand for migrant workers with supply in safe, humane and orderly ways (single page linking to each chapter of the report)

Immigration & RefugeesPosted: 2008-12-04

Towards a Fair Deal for Migrant Workers in the Global Economy

International Labour Office

A 210-page report calling for a multilateral approach to address the issue of migration, with special reference to improving the conditions of migrant workers and promoting more orderly forms of migration

Immigration & Refugees, Employment, Industrial Relations & Training Posted: 2004-05-31

Sudan: Now or Never in Dafur

International Crisis Group

This 26-page report highlights the imminent threat of ethnic cleansing in Western Sudan and calls for immediate international action

Immigration & Refugees, Disarmament & PeacekeepingPosted: 2004-05-24

Organisational Recruitment and Patterns of Migration: Interdependencies in an Integrating Europe

Institute of Migration Research and Intercultural Studies

This 304-page volume presents the main findings of an international research project, "The Political Economy of International Migration in an Integrating Europe"

Immigration & Refugees, European UnionPosted: 2005-01-15