10th IZA Annual Migration Meeting (AM²) and 4th Migration Topic Week

Sunday, June 02:

				Arrival

Monday, June 03:

08:30	-	08:50		Registration / Coffee and Tea
08:50	-	09:00		Welcoming Remarks Amelie F. Constant (Temple University, George Washington University and IZA)
				Session A: Causes and Effects of Migrant Status
				Chair: Amelie F. Constant (Temple University, George Washington University and IZA)
09:00	-	09:40		Carlo Devillanova (Bocconi University), Tommaso Frattini (University of Milan and IZA), Francesco Fasani (IAB Barcelona and IZA)
				"Employment of Undocumented Immigrants and the Prospect of Legal Status: Evidence from an Amnesty Program"
09:40	-	10:20		Linguère Mously Mbaye (IZA), Jean-Louis Arcand (Graduate Institute, Geneva)
				"Braving the Waves: The Role of Time and Risk Preferences in Illegal Migration from Senegal"
10:20	-	11:00		Tineke Fokkema (NIDI), Elena Ambrosetti (Sapienza University), Eralba Cela (Polytechnic University of Marche)
				"The Role of Migrant Status on Transnational Ties: The Case of Migrants in Italy"
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
				Special Guest Lecture
				Chair: Amelie F. Constant (Temple University, George Washington University and IZA)
11:30	-	13:00		Anne Morrison Piehl (Rutgers University)
				"Immigration, Crime, and Justice"
13:00	-	14:30		Lunch
				Session B: Attitudes towards Foreigners
				Chair: Gil S. Epstein (Bar-Ilan University)
14:30	-	15:10		Simone Schüller (IZA)
				"The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education"
15:10	-	15:50		Ira N. Gang (Rutgers University), Francisco Rivera-Batiz (Columbia University), Myeong-Su Yun (Tulane University and IZA)
				"Economic Strain, Education and Attitudes towards Foreigners in the European Union"
15:50	-	16:10		Coffee Break
16:10	-	17:10		Eric D. Gould (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), Esteban F. Klor (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
				"The Long-Run Effect of 9/11: Terrorism, Backlash, and the Assimilation of Muslim Immigrants in the West"
				Special Session About the New IZA Open-Access and Peer-Review Journals
				Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
17:10	-	18:00		Amelie F. Constant (Temple University, George Washington University and IZA), Corrado Giulietti (IZA) "The IZA Journal of Migration and How to Get Published"
19:30				Dinner

Tuesday, June 04:

07:30				Social Program: Trip to the Dead Sea
16:00	-	18:00		Session C: Networks, Enclaves and the Multiplier
				Chair: Saul Lach (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
16:00	-	16:40		Liliana Sousa (U.S. Census Bureau)
				"Human Capital Traps? Enclave Effects Using Linked Employer-Household Data"
16:40	-	17:20		Tommaso Colussi (Queen Mary, University of London)
				"Migrant Networks and Job Search Outcomes: Evidence from Displaced Workers"
17:20	-	18:00		Marie Louise Schultz-Nielsen (Rockwool Foundation Research Unit), Torben Tranaes (Rockwool Foundation Research Unit and IZA), Martin Junge (DEA)
				"The Dynamics of Immigration: An Analysis Using Micro Data Immigration Multipliers"

Wednesday, June 05:

08:30	-	09:00		Coffee and Tea
				Session D: Migrants, Natives, and Skills
				Chair: Corrado Giulietti (IZA)
09:00	-	09:40		Madeline Zavodny (Agnes Scott College), Pia Orrenius (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and IZA)
				"Does Immigration Affect whether U.S. Natives Major in a STEM Field?"
09:40	-	10:20		Ingo E. Isphording (Ruhr University Bochum)
				"Disadvantages of Linguistic Origin - Evidence from Immigrant Literacy Scores"
10:20	-	11:00		Marion Mercier (Paris School of Economics)
				"The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders ?"
11:00	-	11:40		Govert Bijwaard (NIDI ), Qi Wang (NIDI)
				"Return Migration of Foreign Students"
11:40	-	12:00		Coffee Break
				Julian Simon Lecture
				Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
12:00	-	13:30		Amelie F. Constant (Temple University, George Washington University and IZA)
				"Natives' Happiness and the Ethnic Identity of Immigrants"
13:30	-	14:30		Lunch
				Session E: Alternative Ways for Social Mobility
				Chair: Eric D. Gould (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
14:30	-	15:10		Rebekka Christopoulou (Ohio State University), Dean Lillard (Ohio State University), Daniel Lichter (Cornell University)
				"Migration to the US and Marital Mobility"
15:10	-	15:50		Costanza Biavaschi (IZA), Corrado Giulietti (IZA), Zahra Siddique (University of Reading and IZA)
				"The Americanization of Migrants' Names and its Economic Payoff"
15:50	-	16:10		Coffee Break
				Session F: The Well-Being of Migrants
				Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
16:10	-	16:50		Alpaslan Akay (IZA), Olivier Bargain (University of Aix-Marseille II and IZA), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
				"The Effect of Macroeconomic Conditions in Home Countries on the Well-Being of Migrants"
16:50	-	17:30		Stephan L. Thomsen (NIW Hannover), Andreas Knabe (University of Magdeburg), Steffen Rätzel (University of Magdeburg)
				"Right-Wing Extremism and the Well-Being of Immigrants"

Thursday, June 06:

08:30	-	09:00		Coffee and Tea
				Session G: Migration Flows: Who Moves, Where, and Impact
				Chair: Benjamin Elsner (IZA)
09:00	-	09:40		Herbert Brücker (Institute for Employment Research ), Simone Bertoli (University of Auvergne), Jesus Fernandez-Huertas Moraga (FEDEA and IZA)
				"The European Crisis and Migration to Germany: Expectations and the Diversion of Migration Flows"
09:40	-	10:20		Sule Akkoyunlu (University of Bern), Jörg Schläpfer (ETH Zurich)
				"The Determinants of Out-Migration from Switzerland"
10:20	-	11:00		Dandan Zhang (Peking University), Xin Meng (Australian National University and IZA)
				"The Social Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on Urban ‘Natives’"
11:00	-	11:40		Lídia Farré (IAE Barcelona)
				"The Healthy Immigrant Effect: Evidence from the Ecuadorian Exodus"
11:40	-	12:00		Coffee Break
				Session H: The Importance of Birthplace Diversity
				Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
12:00	-	13:00		Hillel Rapoport (Bar-Ilan University), Alberto Alesina (Harvard University), Johann Harnoss (University of Lille)
				"Birthplace Diversity and Economic Prosperity"
13:00	-	14:30		Lunch and Photo Shoot
				Session I: Immigrants and Natives in the Firm
				Chair: Ira N. Gang (Rutgers University)
14:30	-	15:10		Getinet Astatike Haile (University of Nottingham)
				"Are You Unhappy Having Minority Co-Workers?"
15:10	-	15:50		Boris Hirsch (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Elke Jahn (IAB Nuremberg and IZA)
				"Is There Monopsonistic Discrimination Against Immigrants?"
15:50	-	16:00		Coffee Break
				Session J: Beware of the Traps
				Chair: Martin Kahanec (Central European University)
16:00	-	17:00		Gil S. Epstein (Bar-Ilan University)
				"Multiple Migration Traps"
19:30				Dinner

Friday, June 07:

09:00	-	09:30		Coffee and Tea
				Session K: Religion, Remittances and Well-Being
				Chair: Costanza Biavaschi (IZA)
09:30	-	10:10		Francesco Pastore (University of Naples II), Simona Tenaglia (ISFOL)
				"Ora et non labora? A Test of the Impact of Religion on Female Labor Supply"
10:10	-	10:50		Gianna Claudia Giannelli (University of Florence), Michele Binci (University of Florence)
				"Internal vs. International Migration: Impacts of Remittances on Child Well-Being in Vietnam"
10:50	-	11:30		Joseph Friedman (Temple University)
				"The Relationships Between Housing Arrangements and the Mental Wellbeing of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China"
11:30	-	11:40		Concluding Remarks