8th IZA Annual Migration Meeting (AM²) and 3rd Migration Topic Week

Thursday, May 12:

08:15	-	08:45		Registration / Coffee and Tea
08:45	-	09:00		Welcoming Remarks Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University and IZA) Barry R. Chiswick (George Washington University and IZA)
				Session A: All About Remittances, All Around the World
				Chair: Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University)
09:00	-	09:30		Adriana Kugler (Georgetown University), Sa Bui (University of Houston)
				"Are Remittances in the Hands of Women More Effective? Evidence from Vietnam"
09:30	-	10:00		Antje Kroeger (DIW Berlin), Kathryn H. Anderson (Vanderbilt University)
				"Remittances and Children’s Schooling: New Evidence from Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2008"
10:00	-	10:30		Angelino Viceisza (International Food Policy Research Institute), Maximo Torero (IFPRI)
				"To Remit, or Not to Remit: That is the Question. A Remittance Field Experiment"
10:30	-	11:00		Coffee Break
				Session B: Occupational Adjustment
				Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
11:00	-	12:00		Barry R. Chiswick (George Washington University), Paul W. Miller (Curtin University of Technology and IZA)
				"Language Proficiency and Occupational Attainment and Mismatch Among Immigrants"
12:00	-	13:00		Aslan Zorlu (University of Amsterdam)
				"Occupational Adjustment of Immigrants"
13:00	-	14:30		Lunch
				Session C: Employer Attitudes
				Chair: Martin Kahanec (Central European University and IZA)
14:30	-	15:00		Catia Nicodemo (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Rosella Nicolini (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona)
				"Network Effects in Hiring Strategies"
15:00	-	15:30		Carl Lin (Rutgers University)
				"Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled: Measuring the Impact of Skilled Immigration on Employers and Shareholders"
15:30	-	16:00		Anirban Ghosh (Georgetown University)
				"Impact of High Skilled Migration on Publicly Traded US Firms"
16:00	-	16:30		Coffee Break
				Session D: Fertility and Other Family Issues
				Chair: Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
16:30	-	17:00		Alicia Adsera (Princeton University), Ana Ferrer (University of Calgary)
				"Age at Migration, Language and Fertility Transitions among Migrants to Canada"
17:00	-	17:30		Jennifer Ward-Batts (Wayne State University, Detroit), Sabrina Wulff Pabilonia (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)
				"The Effect of Child Gender on Parents’ Labor Supply: Responses among Natives, Immigrants, and Racial and Ethnic Subgroups"
19:30				Dinner at Restaurant "Neyla", 3206 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007

Friday, May 13:

08:30	-	09:00		Coffee and Tea
				Session E: Culture and Identity
				Chair: Barry R. Chiswick (George Washington University)
09:00	-	09:30		Annabelle Krause-Pilatus (IZA), Ulf Rinne (IZA), Simone Schüller (DIW Berlin and IZA)
				"Kick It Like Özil? Second Generation Migrants' Initial Disadvantage and the Failure of the Education System"
09:30	-	10:00		Simone Schüller (DIW Berlin)
				"Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants"
10:00	-	10:30		Simonetta Longhi (ISER, University of Essex)
				"Impact of Cultural Diversity on Wages and Job Satisfaction in England"
10:30	-	11:00		Coffee Break
				Julian Simon Lecture
				Chair: Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University)
11:00	-	12:30		Douglas S. Massey (Princeton University)
				"Chain Reaction: The Causes and Consequences of America’s War on Immigrants"
12:30	-	14:00		Lunch
				Session F: Migration Flows
				Chair: Corrado Giulietti (IZA)
14:00	-	14:30		Linguère Mously Mbaye (CERDI, University of Auvergne)
				"Barcelona or Die: Understanding Illegal Migration from Senegal"
14:30	-	15:00		Bryan Roberts (Nathan Associates)
				"A Remittance-Based Estimate of the Mexican Foreign-Born Population Resident in the United States"
15:00	-	15:30		Coffee Break
15:30	-	16:30		Silvio Rendon (Stony Brook University), Alfredo Cuecuecha (Colegio de Tlaxcala)
				"Dynamic Decisions of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S."
19:30				Dinner at Restaurant "Mie N Yu", 3125 M Street, NW, Washington, DC 20007

Saturday, May 14:

08:30	-	09:00		Coffee and Tea
				Session G: Conflict and Culture
				Chair: Ulf Rinne (IZA)
09:00	-	09:30		B. Lindsay Lowell (Georgetown University)
				"Growing Modern American Guestworkers: The Increasing Supply of Temporary H-2A Agricultural Workers"
09:30	-	10:00		BRIAN M Scholl (U.S. Agency for International Development)
				"Economics of Culture and Migration"
10:00	-	10:30		Coffee Break
				Session H: Africa ONE
				Chair: Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
10:30	-	11:30		Una O. Osili (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis), Ann Paulson (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
				"Crisis and Investor Confidence: Evidence from U.S. Immigrants"
11:30	-	12:30		Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong (University of South Florida), Elizabeth Asiedu (University of Kansas)
				"Remittances and Poverty in Ghana"
12:30	-	13:30		Lunch
				Session I: Africa TWO
				Chair: Erdal Tekin (Georgia State University and IZA)
13:30	-	14:00		Sonia Plaza (World Bank), Adriana Castaldo (Sussex Centre for Migration Research)
				"How Different are Immigrants in South Africa? An Analysis of Home Ownership and Housing Conditions"
14:00	-	14:30		Anna Maria Mayda (Georgetown University), Giovanni Facchini (Erasmus University Rotterdam & Universita' degli Studi di Milano and IZA), Mariapia Mendola (Universita' degli Studi di Milano Bicocca)
				"South-South Migration and the Labor Market: Evidence from South Africa"
14:30	-	15:00		David C. Phillips (Georgetown University), James Antwi (Greenwich School Of Management)
				"Wages and Health Worker Retention: Evidence from Public Sector Wage Reforms in Ghana"
15:00	-	15:30		Coffee Break
				Session J: Impact on Natives
				Chair: Adriana Kugler (Georgetown University)
15:30	-	16:30		Harriet Duleep (College of William and Mary), David Jaeger (University of Cologne and IZA)
				"The Effect of Immigration on U.S. Natives’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship"
16:30	-	17:30		Corrado Giulietti (IZA), Alpaslan Akay (IZA), Amelie F. Constant (DIW DC, George Washington University and IZA)
				"Impact of Migration on the Happiness of Natives"
18:30				Cruise on the Potomac River

Sunday, May 15:

09:30	-	10:00		Coffee and Tea
				Session K: Effects of the Host Economy
				Chair: Sonia Plaza (World Bank)
10:00	-	11:00		Dan-Olof Rooth (Linneaus University), Magnus Carlsson (Linnaeus University)
				"Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer and the Ethnic Wage Gap"
11:00	-	12:00		Matloob Piracha (University of Kent), Massimiliano Tani (Macquarie University and IZA), Florin Vadean (University of Kent)
				"Immigrant Over- and Under-education: The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience"
12:00	-	13:30		Concluding Remarks and Farewell Lunch
				[End of Conference]