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Artjoms Ivlevs
Subject Editor, Transition and emerging economies

University of the West of England, UK, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor role

Author, Subject Editor

Current position

Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of the West of England, UK

Research interest

Migration, ethnicity, citizenship, education, corruption, happiness, population economics, applied economics, applied microeconometrics

Website

http://bit.ly/Ivlevs_IZApage

Past positions

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP), University of Nottingham, UK (2007–2010); Guest Lecturer, University of Latvia (2008–2010)

Qualifications

PhD Economics of Migration, University of Aix-Marseille, 2006

Selected publications

  • “Economic insecurity in transition: A primary commodities perspective.” Review of Income and Wealth 60 (2014): S117–S140.

  • “2004 minority education reform and pupil performance in Latvia.” Economics of Education Review 38 (2014): 151–166 (with R. King).

  • “Does more schooling make you run for the border? Post-independence evidence from Kosovo.” Journal of Development Studies 48:8 (2012): 1108–1120 (with R. King).

  • “Ageing, regional birth rates and attitudes towards immigration: Evidence from a transition economy.” Regional Studies 46:7 (2012): 947–959.

  • “From immigrants to (non-)citizens: Political economy of naturalisations in Latvia.” IZA Journal of Migration 1:14 (2012) (with R. King).

article(s)

  • Happiness and the emigration decision

    Happy people are an asset to society, and happiness may be a determinant of emigration

    Artjoms Ivlevs, October 2014
    Happy people are healthier and more creative, productive, and sociable. Because of these positive effects of happiness, it is in the interest of countries to attract and retain happy people. With respect to the decision to migrate, the central question becomes whether people who are happier and more satisfied with their lives are more or less likely to migrate. The evidence so far is mixed. Correlational studies find that prospective migrants are less happy than people who are not intending to migrate, while one study controlling for reverse causality suggests that the desire to migrate increases with life satisfaction.
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