Seventh IZA Annual Migration Meeting (AM²)

Thursday, June 03:

19:00	-	21:00		Welcome Dinner at Restaurant Seasons, Hotel Hilton Bonn

Friday, June 04:

08:30	-	08:50		Registration
08:50	-	09:00		Welcoming Remarks Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University and IZA) and Barry R. Chiswick (University of Illinois at Chicago and IZA)
09:00				Session A: The Highly Skilled of the Past, Networks and Child Labor of the Present
				Chair: Barry R. Chiswick (University of Illinois at Chicago)
09:00	-	10:00		Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel (Dalhousie University), Mutlu Yuksel (IZA)
				"The Unintended Long-Term Consequences of Dismissal and Exile of High-Skilled Professionals: Evidence from Nazi Germany"
				Discussant: Carmel U. Chiswick (University of Illinois at Chicago)
10:00	-	11:00		Yevgeniya Savchenko (Georgetown University), Francis Vella (Georgetown University and IZA)
				"Immigrant Networks in Australia: Do They Help Newly Arrived Immigrants to Find Jobs and Get Higher Wages?"
				Discussant: Konstantinos Tatsiramos (IZA)
11:00	-	11:15		Coffee / Tea Break
11:15				Session B: Immigration and Family Interactions
				Chair: Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University)
11:15	-	12:15		Lídia Farré (Institut d’Anàlisi Econòmica (IAE-CSIC)), Libertad González (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and IZA), Francesc Ortega (Universitat Pompeu Fabra and IZA)
				"Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women"
				Discussant: Corrado Giulietti (IZA)
12:15	-	13:30		Lunch
13:29				Session B: Immigration and Family Interactions (cont'd)
				Chair: Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University)
13:30	-	14:30		Sonia Plaza (The World Bank), George Joseph (World Bank)
				"Impact of Remittances on Child Labor in Ghana"
				Discussant: Ruby Henry (IZA)
14:30	-	15:30		Olga Nottmeyer (DIW Berlin)
				"Does Intermarriage Pay off? A Panel Data Analysis of Immigrants in Germany"
				Discussant: Anna Myunghee Kim (IZA)
15:30	-	16:00		Coffee / Tea Break
16:00	-	17:00		The Julian Simon Lecture
				Eskil Wadensjö (Stockholm University)
				"Experiences of the Common Nordic Labour Market"
18:00				Dinner on China Boat "Ocean Paradise"

Saturday, June 05:

08:30	-	09:00		Coffee / Tea
09:00				Session C: Immigrants and Language
				Chair: Martin Kahanec (IZA)
09:00	-	10:00		Mariola Pytlikova (Aarhus School of Business), Alicia Adsera (Princeton University and IZA)
				"The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration: Evidence from OECD Countries 1985 - 2006"
				Discussant: Barry R. Chiswick (University of Illinois at Chicago)
10:00	-	11:00		Jens Suedekum (University of Duisburg-Essen), Oliver Falck (ifo Institute), Stephan Heblich (Max-Planck-Institute Jena), Alfred Lameli (Deutscher Sprachatlas, University of Marburg)
				"Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange"
				Discussant: Zahra Siddique (IZA)
11:00	-	11:15		Coffee / Tea Break
11:15				Session D: Immigrant Earnings
				Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin and Bonn University)
11:15	-	12:15		Sherrilyn M. Billger (Illinois State University), Carlos Lamarche (University of Oklahoma)
				"Immigrant Heterogeneity and the Earnings Distribution in the United Kingdom and United States: New Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Analysis"
				Discussant: Annabelle Krause-Pilatus (IZA)
12:15	-	13:30		Lunch
13:30				Session D: Immigrant Earnings (cont'd)
				Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin and Bonn University)
13:30	-	14:30		Ulf Rinne (IZA), Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University, IZA), Annabelle Krause (IZA), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA, DIW Berlin, University of Bonn)
				"Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants"
				Discussant: Martin Guzi (IZA)
14:30	-	14:45		Coffee / Tea Break
14:45				Session E: Immigrant Occupations and Education
				Chair: Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University)
14:45	-	15:45		Mariya Aleksynska (CEPII, Paris), Ahmed Tritah (CEPII)
				"Occupation-Education Mismatch of Immigrant Workers in Europe: the Role of Home and Host Country Characteristics"
				Discussant: Mutlu Yuksel (IZA)
15:45	-	16:45		Chad Sparber (Colgate University), Takao Kato (Colgate University and IZA)
				"Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad"
				Discussant: Yevgeniya Savchenko (Georgetown University)
16:45	-	17:00		Closing Remarks by Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University and IZA) and Barry R. Chiswick (University of Illinois at Chicago and IZA)