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Amelie F. Constant

George Washington University and Temple University, USA

I am thrilled to be able to contribute to the IZA World of Labor, a ground-breaking project combining academic quality with the simplicity that policymakers need to make wise decisions

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Visiting Professor at George Washington University, USA; Visiting Scholar at Temple University, USA

Research interest

Labor economics, applied micro-econometrics, economics of migration

Website

https://www.merit.unu.edu/about-us/profile/?staff_id=2419

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Government Economists, and AIRLEAP; Member of the Editorial Board of the Applied Economics Quarterly; Member of the Academia Europaea

Past positions

Executive Director, DIWDC, Washington, DC, USA (2006–2013)

Qualifications

PhD Economics, Vanderbilt University, 1998

Selected publications

  • “Self-employment against employment or unemployment: Markov Transitions across the business cycle.” Eurasian Business Review 4:1 (2014): 1–25 (with K. F. Zimmermann).

  • “Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity.” IZA Journal of Migration 1:5 (2012) (with H. Bonin, K. Tatsiramos, and K. F. Zimmermann).

  • “Circular and repeat migration: Counts of exits and years away from the host country.” Population Research and Policy Review 30:4 (2011): 495–515 (with K. F. Zimmermann).

  • “Ethnosizing immigrants.” Journal of Economic and Behavioral Organization 69:3 (2009): 274–287 (with L. Gataullina and K. F. Zimmermann).

  • “An economic analysis of immigration.” In: Payson, S. (ed.). Public Economics: The Government's Role in American Economics. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, forthcoming in 2014, ch. 19.

article(s)

  • Do migrants take the jobs of native workers?

    Migrants rarely take native workers’ jobs, and they boost employment effects in the long term

    Amelie F. Constant, May 2014
    Neither public opinion nor evidence-based research supports the claim of some politicians and the media that immigrants take the jobs of native-born workers. Public opinion polls in six migrant-destination countries after the 2008–2009 recession show that most people believe that immigrants fill job vacancies and many believe that they create jobs and do not take jobs from native workers. This view is corroborated by evidence-based research showing that immigrants—of all skill levels—do not significantly affect native employment in the short term and boost employment in the long term.
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