• Main textbooks: 
• Bansak, Simpson Zavodny: The Economics of Immigration, 1e
• Borjas: Labor Economics, 7e
• Complementary textbooks: 
• Ehrenberg and Smith: Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy 12e or 13e, 
• Pierre Cahuc, Stephanie Carcillo and Andre Zylberberg: Labor Economics 2e,
• Chapters in Handbooks of Labor Economics,
• Chapters in Chiswick and Miller ed. Handbook of the Economics of International Migration,
• Chapters in Borjas (2014): Immigration Economics, 
• Chapters in Bodvarsson, Ö. and H. van den Berg (2013): The Economics of Immigration – Theory and Policy, Berlin
  Heidelberg: Springer.
• Additional literature based on journal articles and other book chapters
• Other sources:
• Top field journals: Labour Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and Journal of Human Resources
• Link to conferences' programs: joint EALE/SOLE world meeting in Montreal, previous EALE, ESPE and SOLE annual conferences, and events organized by IZA in Bonn.
• Important websites with resourses for labor economics and economics of migration: IZA Bonn - Institute for the Study of Labor,  CReAM- Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration at UCL
  

• Borjas 6e or 7e, Chapter 8 labor mobility; 
• Adserà, Alícia and Mariola Pytliková (2015): “The Role of Language in Shaping International Migration”. Economic Journal, Vol. 125, Issue 586, pp. F49-F81. August 2015. 

• Pedersen, J. P., Pytlikova, M. and N. Smith (2008): "Selection and Network Effects - Migration Flows into OECD Countries 1990-2000". European Economic Review. Vol. 52 (7), pp. 1160-1186.
• Clark, Hatton and Williamson (2007): "Explaining U.S. Immigration, 1971–1998". The Review of Economics and Statistics.  May 2007, Vol. 89, No. 2, Pages 359-373,
• Munshi, K. (2003), “Networks in the Modern Economy: Mexican Migrants in the U.S. Labor Market”, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 118 (2), pp. 549-599.

1.       PIAAC data (micro data) – International code-book of variables
and International Master questionnaire
all linked from here:
http://www.oecd.org/site/piaac/publicdataandanalysis.htm

2.       International migration dataset by Pytlikova (2011), used in Adsera and Pytlikova, EJ 2015 (macro data)

3.   IAB Brain Drain Data (macro)  

4.  OECD DIOC-E Database on Immigrants  (info on 100 destination countries and more than 200 countries of origin), information on demographic characteristics (age and gender), duration of stay, labour market outcomes (labour market status, occupations, sectors of activity), fields of study, educational attainment and the place of birth in OECD and non-OECD Countries

5.       World Bank WDI (macro data) and/or OECD Source Stats (macro data) 

• Bodvarsson, Simpson and Sparber: "Migration Theory" in Chiswick and Miller ed. (2015): Handbook of International Migration, Vol, 1A

• Gorinas, Cedric and Mariola Pytliková (2017): “Do Natives’ Attitudes Influence International Migration?” International Migration Review. Volume 51, Issue 2, Summer 2017, Pages 416–451 

• Cai Ruohong, Feng Shuaizhang, Oppenheimer Michael and Mariola Pytlikova (2016). “Climate Variability and International Migration: The Importance of the Agricultural Linkage". Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 79, pp. 135-151. September 2016.

• Palmer, John and Mariola Pytliková (2015): “Labor Market Laws and intra-European Migration: The Role of the State in Shaping Destination Choices”. European Journal of Population, Vol. 31, Issue 2, March 2015, pp. 127-153
• Mayda, A. M.(2010): "International Migration: A panel data analysis of the determinants of bilateral flows". Journal of Population Economics, 23(4), 1249-1274.
• Karemera, Oguledo, Davis, (2000): "A gravity model analysis of international migration to North America" Applied Economics,  32(13), 1745-1755.
• F. Docquier, G. Peri, I. Ruyssen, (2014): "The cross-country determinants of potential and actual migration",  International Migration Review (2014), 48 (S1): 37-99

• Borjas (1987): "Self-selection and the earnings of immigrants" American Economic Review, 77(4), pp. 531-553.
• Chiswick (1999): Are Immigrants Favourably Self-selected? American Economic Review, pp.181-185.
• Bansak, Simpson, Zavodny: The economics of Immigration, Part 2, Chapter 4: Selection in Immigration

• Chapter 4: "Who Immigrates? Theory and Evidence" In Bodvarsson, Ö. and H. van den Berg (2013): The Economics of Immigration – Theory and Policy
• Grogger and Hanson (2011): "Income maximization and the selection and sorting of international migrants" Journal of Development Economics, 95 (1), 42-57.
• McKenzie and Rapoport (2010): "Self-selection patterns in Mexico-U.S. migration: The role of migration networks". Review of Economics and Statistics 92 (4), pp. 811-821.

• Sweetman, A. and van Ours, J.C.(2014): "Immigration: What about the children and grandchildren?" In Chiswick, B.R. ad Miller, P.W. (eds) Handbook of the Economics of International Migration" Amsterdam.
• Part II on "Immigrant Selection and Assimilation" In Bansak, Simpson and Zavodny (2015): "The Economics of Immigration"., Chapters 5 and 6.

• Chiswick, B.R. (1978): "The effect of Americanization on the earnings of foreign-born men" Journal of Political Economy 86(5), pp.897-921. 
• Abramitzky, R. Boustan L.P. and K. Eriksson (2014): "A Nation of Immigrants: Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration". Journal of Political Economy, 122(30, pp 467-506.
• Aydemir and Skuterud: (2005): "Explaining  the deteriorating entry of earnins of Canada's immigrant cohorts, 1966-2000: Canadian Journal of Economics 38(2), pp. 641-672.
• Borjas, G.J.(2015): "The slowdown in the economic assimilation of immigrants: Aging and cohort effects revisited again" Journal of Human Capital 9(4).
• Anderson, K.H.: Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers? IZA World of Labor
• Dustmanam Ch. and J.S. Gorlach (2014): Selective out-migration and the estimation of immigrants earnings profiles" in n Chiswick, B.R. ad Miller, P.W. (eds) Handbook of the Economics of International Migration" Amsterdam.
• Adsera A. and M. Pytlikova (2016): "Language and Migration" Forthcoming In Ginsburg, V. and O. Weber (eds) "The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language". Palgrave Macmillan. February 2016. ISBN 978-1-137-32504

• Borjas 6e, Chapter 8 labor mobility; and Chapter 4 (policy application 4-5) 
• CARD, D. (1990): „The Impact of the Mariel Boatlift on the Miami Labor Market“ Industrial and Labor Relation Review, Vol. 43, No. 2., pp. 245-257.
• Part III on "Labor Market Effects of Immigration" In Bansak, Simpson and Zavodny (2015): "The Economics of Immigration"., Chapters 7 and 8.
  

Other Relevant Literature (optional):

• BORJAS George J.(2006): Native internal migration and the labor market impact of immigration. JHR, 41:2, 221-258
• Borjas G. J. (2003): The labor demand curve is downward sloping: re-examining the impact of immigration on the labor market, Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 118, pp. 1135–74.
• Borjas, G. and K. Doran (2012): "The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians," Quarterly Journal of Economics, August 2012.
• Card, D. E. (2001). Immigrant inflows, native outflows and the local labor market impacts of higher immigration, Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 19, pp. 22–64.
• Card, D. (2005): Is the new immigration really so bad? The Economic Journal, 115:507, 300-323.
• George J. BORJAS: “THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF IMMIGRATION”, In: Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3, Edited by O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (1999); Chapter 28, Elsevier Science B. V.
• PERI, G. (2014): Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers?" IZA World of Labor 42.
• Bansak, Simpson and Zavodny: The Economics of Immigration, Part III Labor Market Effects of Immigration

• Kato, T. and Ch. Sparber (2013): The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad,” Review of Economics and Statistics.
• Bansak, Simpson and Zavodny: The Economics of Immigration, Part IV Other Effects of Immigration.
• Parrotta, P., Pozzoli, D. and M. Pytlikova (2014): "The Nexus between Labor Diversity and Firm's Innovation." Journal of Population Economics. Vol. 27, Issue 2, April 2014, pp 303-364.

Other Relevant Literature (optional):

• Nathan, M. (2014): The wider economic impacts of high-skilled migrants: a survey of literature for receivivng countries. IZA Journal of Migration 2014, 3:4. 
• Javorcik, B. S., Ç. Özden, et al. (2011). "Migrant networks and foreign direct investment." Journal of Development Economics 94(2): 231-241.
• Hunt, J. and M. Gauthier-Loiselle (2010). "How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?" American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2(2): 31-56.
• Kerr, S. P. and W. Kerr (2011). "Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey" NBER Working Paper 16736. Cambridge, MA, NBER
• Kerr, W R and W F Lincoln (2010), “The supply side of innovation: H-1B visa reforms and US ethnic invention”, Journal of Labor Economics, 28: 473–508.
• Peri, G and C Sparber (2009), “Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(3): 135–169.
• Peri, Giovanni, Kevin Shih, and Chad Sparber (2014), “Foreign STEM Workers and Native Wages and Employment in U.S. Cities“, NBER Working Papers 20093. 
• Borjas, G. and K. Doran (2012): "The Collapse of the Soviet Union and the Productivity of American Mathematicians," QJE 2012

• Bansak, Simpson and Zavodny: The Economics of Immigration, Part IV Other Effects of Immigration
• Bansak, Simpson and Zavodny: The Economics of Immigration, Part III Labor Market Effects of immigration, Chapter 7, Labor Market Effects of Immigration - Theory

• William W. Olney & Dario Pozzoli, 2018. "The Impact of Immigration on Firm-Level Offshoring," Department of Economics Working Papers 2018-02, Department of Economics, Williams College
• Parrotta, P., Pozzoli, D. and M Pytlikova (2014): Does Labour Diversity affect Firm Productivity? European Economic Review, Vol. 66, February 2014, Pages 144–179.
• Parrotta, P., Pozzoli, D., & Sala, D. (2016). Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior. European Economic Review, 89, 248–263. DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2016.08.001
• Kahanec, M. and M. Pytliková (2017): “The Economic Impact of East-West Migration on the European Union. Empirica, Vol. 44, Issue 3, pp 407–434, August 2017 . 
• Card (2009): Immigration and Inequality. American Economic Review. 99(2): 1-21.

• Bansak, Simpson and Zavodny: The Economics of Immigration, Part IV Other Effects of Immigration., Chapter 12

• Docquier, F. and Rapoport, H (2012) "Globalization, brain drain, and development" Journal of Economic Literature 50 (3), pp. 681-730.
• Bansak, Simpson and Zavodny: The Economics of Immigration, Part IV Other Effects of Immigration. Chapter 11,. Effects on Source Countries.

• Dustmann, Ch, Frattini, T. and A. Rosso (2015) "The Effect of Emigration from Poland on Polish Wages". Scadinavian Journal of Economics Vol 117 (2), pp. 522-564.
• Gibson, J. McKenzie, D (2011) "Eight questions about brain drain". Journal of Economic Perspectives 25(3), pp. 107-128.
• Yang, D (2011): "Migrant remittances" Journal of Economic Perspectives 25(3), pp. 129-152.

• Bansak, Simpson and Zavodny: The Economics of Immigration, Part VI: Chapters 13 and 14.

Economics everywhere: 16_Economics_everywhere_Schools_for_small_families.pdf

Handout: 18_Equalizing_wage_differentials

• Chapter 5: Compensating Wage Differential in George Borjas, Labour  Economics, 7th edition: Chapter 8, pp. 196-222.
• Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 1, Chapter 12: by S.Rosen on: Theory of Equilising Differences. Link.

• Brown, C. (1980). Equalizing Differences in the Labor Market. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 94(1), 113-134.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/1884607

Economics everywhere: 17_Economics_everywhere_Welfare_in_Africa_Language.pdf

Handouts:

• 18_updated Equalizing_wage_differentials.pdf

• Key facts (on yellow background) from Bentham A, What is the optimal Speed limit on Higways, JPE 2015.
  
• Key facts (on yellow background)  and tables from Brown, C. (1980). Equalizing Differences in the Labor Market. The Quarterly Journal of Economics,94(1), 113-134.
• Key facts from Kluve and Shaffner, The Value of Life in Europe— A Meta-Analysis, 2008.
  

• W. Kip Viscusi, The Value of Risks to Life and Health, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Dec., 1993), pp. 1912-1946. (link).
  

Eriksson, T. and M. Pytlikova (2011): "Foreign Ownership Premia in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Czech Republic", Economics of Transition, Vol 19(2), pp.371-395

 Lazear, E and K. Shaw (2007),: “Personnel Economics: The Economist’s View of Human Resources”, Journal of Economic Perspectives 5, pp.45-66

Bloom, N., Van Reenen, J., 2011. “Human resource management and productivity”. In: Ashenfelter, O., Card, D. (Eds.), Handbook of Labor Economics, vol. 4b., pp. 1697–1767

Oyer, P. and S. Schaefer (2011): “Personnel Economics: Hiring and Incentives”. In: Ashenfelter, O., Card, D. (Eds.) Handbook of Labor Economics, vol. 4b. Elsevier, 1769-1823

Breza, Emily, Supreet Kaur and Yogita Shamdasani. “The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 133, Issue 2, 1 May 2018, Pages 611–663

Anat Bracha, Uri Gneezy, and George Loewenstein. Relative Pay and Labor Supply. Journal of Labor Economics, April 2015, Vol. 33, No. 2: 297-315.

Hamilton, B., J. Nickerson, and H. Owan, “Team Incentives and Worker Heterogeneity: An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Teams on Productivity and Participation”. Journal of Political Economy 111(3),June 2003: 465-497.

Babcock, Philip, Kelly Bedard, Gary Charness, John Hartman, and Heather Royer. “Letting Down the Team? Evidence of Social Effects of Teams” Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015: 841-870.

Ariely, Dan; Kamenica, Emir; Prelec, Drazen. “Man's Search for Meaning: The Case of Legos” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 67, no. 3-4, September 2008, pp. 671-77

Kremer, Michael, Supreet Kaur, and Sendhil Mullainathan. 2015. “Self Control at Work.” Journal of Political Economy 123 (6): 1227 – 1277

Kuhn, Peter and Marie Claire Villeval. "Are Women More Attracted to Team Incentives than Men?", Economic Journal, February 2015

Griffith, Rachel; Neely, Andrew. “Performance Pay and Managerial Experience in Multitask Teams: Evidence from within a Firm” Journal of Labor Economics, vol. 27, no. 1, January 2009, pp. 49-82.
 

Economics everywhere: 

• 18_Economics_everywhere_Child_care_Costs_Benefits.pdf
  
• IDEA study Public financing for pre-school places pays off: a cost and benefit analysis
• JLE 2019: Early Childcare and CognitiveDevelopment: Evidence froman Assignment Lottery (link)
  

Handouts:

• 19_Efficiency_wages.pdf
  

• Chapter 12: Incentive pay  in George Borjas, Labour  Economics, 7th edition. Pages. 480 - 489.
  
• L.F. Katz: Efficiency wage theories: a partial evaluation, pages 235 - 251. (link).
  
• Schlicht, Efficiency wages: Variants and implications (link)
  

• J.Stiglitz, The Causes and Consequences of The Dependence of Quality on Price, JEL 1986 (link)
  
• A curiosity type-writter version of thechapter by L.F. Katz: Efficiency wage theories: a partial evaluation (link).

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