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Sherrie A. Kossoudji

University of Michigan, USA, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor provides knowledgable work that directly speaks to policymakers. It is critical for researchers to engage with the people who can turn the results of their research into reality. I’m thrilled to be able to contribute to such an important enterprise

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Associate Professor, School of Social Work and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Michigan, USA

Research interest

The economics of undocumented workers, undocumented migration, contested borders, refugee resettlement

Website

https://ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profiles/emeritus/kossoudj

Qualifications

PhD Economics, University of Michigan, 1984

Selected publications

  • Migration and the Labor Force. The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.

  • Legalization, Then and Now, Revisited. Immigration Perspectives. Washington, DC: Immigration Policy Center, 2013.

  • “The history of inter-country adoptions between Vietnam and the United States: Social welfare implications.” Conference Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Work and Social Policy, Hanoi University, 2012.

  • The Impact of Legalization Then and Now. Immigration Perspectives. Washington, DC: Immigration Policy Center, 2009.

  • “Coming out of the shadows: Learning about legal status and wages from the legalized population.” Journal of Labor Economics 20:3 (2002) (with D. Cobb-Clark).

article(s)

  • What are the consequences of regularizing undocumented immigrants?

    When countries regularize undocumented residents, their work, wages, and human capital investment opportunities change

    Sherrie A. Kossoudji, September 2016
    Millions of people enter (or remain in) countries without permission as they flee violence, war, or economic hardship. Regularization policies that offer residence and work rights have multiple and multi-layered effects on the economy and society, but they always directly affect the labor market opportunities of those who are regularized. Large numbers of undocumented people in many countries, a new political willingness to fight for human and civil rights, and dramatically increasing refugee flows mean continued pressure to enact regularization policies.
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