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CReAM Researchers find that Immigration helps average UK wages but holds back wages of the least well paid.
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Article in Guardian by CReAM Research Fellow

Stephen Machin argues that his previous research is being wrongly used to validate the Coalition's academy programme.

NORFACE Compact Series - Launched

NORFACE Research programme on Migration has launched the first edition of NORFACE Compact Series.  For more information about the articles included in this edition, check the NORFACE Compact Page on the NORFACE Migration Website.

NORFACE Migration

CReAM collaborates with the NORFACE Programme on Migration. Check out NORFACE publications and activities on migration.

New CReAM Comment

Ian Preston comments on the debate on attitudes to immigration.

New MAC Report

CReAM researchers contribute to the latest report of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) Analysis of the Impacts of Migration.

New Discussion Papers in CReAM DP Series:

14/12 Do Migrant Girls Always Perform Better? Differences between the Reading and Math Scores of 15-Year-Old Daughters and Sons of Migrants in PISA 2009 and Variations by Region of Origin and Country of DestinationNils Kornder and Jaap Dronkers.

13/12 Immigrants’ Children Scientific Performance in a Double Comparative Design: The Influence of Origin, Destination, and CommunityJ. Dronkers and M. de Heus.

12/12 Immigrant Pupils’ Scientific Performance: The Influence of Educational System Features of Origin and Destination CountriesJ. Dronkers, M. de Heus and M. Levels.

New Discussion Paper in NORFACE DP Series

2012-17 Dynamics of Educational Differences in Emigration from Estonia to the Old EU Member States. Kristi Anniste, Enel Pungas, Tiit Tammaru, Tiiu Paas.

2012-16 Asylum Policy in the EU: The Case for Deeper Integration. Timothy J Hatton.

2012-15 Peer Effects on Criminal Behavior. Evidence from the homeless. Lucia Corno.

New External CReAM Fellows

Jaap Dronkers

Delia Furtado

Erwin Tiongson

New CReAM Affiliates

Mariola Pytlikova

Simonetta Longhi

Catia Batista

CReAM Visitors

Nishith Prakash - 25 - 29 Jun 2012

Mette Foged - 16 Jan - 15 May 2012

Celia Badillo Bautista - 7 Sep 2011 - 31 May 2012

Kari Salvanes - 5 Sep 2011 - 6 Jul 2012

Marco Hafner - Jun 2011 onwards

CReAM Previous Events:

Norface Migration Network Conference on "Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge"

was organised as part of the Migration Week at UCL, University College London, April 4-9, 2011. Photographs and Recordings of key lectures available now.

"Migration, Development, and Global Issues"

Conference jointly organised by Norface Migration Programme, World Bank and CReAM, University College London, September 23-25, 2010.

Final Conference of the TOM Network: "Transnationality of Migrants"

Venice, September 16 - 18, 2010

Invited Lecture by George Borjas and Eric Gould on "The Self Selection of Immigrants"

at the 3rd EALE/SOLE World Conference, University College London, June 17, 2010.

3rd EALE-SOLE world Conference

University College London, June 17 - 19, 2010.

Workshop of the NORFACE Programme on Migration

University College London, March 25 - 27, 2010.

Public Lecture - Prof Gordon Hanson: "Managing Immigration Policy in High Income Countries"

London, March 23, 2010.

Final AGF Workshop "The Economics and Politics of Employment, Migration and Social Justice"

London, May 22-23, 2009.

The Economics of Immigration: Children of Immigrants and Temporary Migration

Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 11-12, 2009, Pictures.

XXII Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics

London, UK Pictures.

Conference on
Immigration: Impacts, Integration and Intergenerational Issues

University College London (UCL),
29 to 31 March 2006.

Current and upcoming CReAM Visitors

Celia Baudillo Bautista

email: c.bautista@ucl.ac.uk

Celia Bautista is visiting CReAM from 7th September 2011 - 31st May 2012.

Mette Foged

email: mette.foged.11@ucl.ac.uk

Mette Foged is visiting CReAM from 16th January - 15th May 2012.

She is a PhD student at the Department of Economics of University of Copenhagen since 2011.

Website: Click here.

Marco Hafner

email: Marco.Hafner@iab.de

Marco Hafner is visiting CReAM from June 2011.

He is a PhD student at the Department of Economics of University of Freiburg since 2007.

Website: http://www.econ.ucl.ac.uk/cream/personnel/MarcoHafner.htm

Nishith Prakash

email: nishith.prakash@uconn.edu

Nishith Prakash is scheduled to visit CReAM from 25th - 29th June 2012.

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/nishithprakash1978/

Kari Salvanes

Kari Salvanes is visiting CReAM from 5th September 2011 - 6th July 2012.

She is a PhD student at the Department of Economics and ESOP at the University of Oslo.

Website: http://cream-migration.org/personneldetail.php?id=12

Recent CReAM Visitors

Mariya Aleksynska

email: mariya.aleksinska@phd.uni-bocconi.it

Mariya Aleksynska visited CReAM from 14th May - 7th June 2008.

She received her PhD in Economics from Bocconi University, Milan in 2008. Her main research interests are in Economics of Migration, in particular, attitudes towards immigrants, civic participation of immigrants, culture transmission and assimilation, and migration management by transit migration countries.

Her website is: http://maleksynska.googlepages.com/

Anders Bjorklund

email: anders@sofi.su.se

Anders Bjorklund visited CReAM from 29th September - 3rd October 2008 and on 15th December 2008.

He is Professor of Economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) in Stockholm University. His fields of research are labour and family economics, earnings and income inequality, economics of education, labour market performance and family background, labour-market and family policy.

His website is: http://www2.sofi.su.se/~abj/

George J. Borjas

email: gborjas@harvard.edu

George Borjas visited CReAM from 16th - 19th June 2010 and from 5th - 9th April 2011.

He is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

He is an External Fellow at CReAM.

His website is: http://www.borjas.com/

Lisa Cameron

email: Lisa.Cameron@monash.edu

Lisa Cameron visited CReAM on 28th November 2011.

She is the Director of the University's Development Research Unit (DRU) and and a Professor of Economics at Monash University. She is an empirical development economist, focusing predominantly on Indonesia. Her research often incorporates the techniques of experimental economics.

Website: http://users.monash.edu.au/~clisa/

David Card

email: card@econ.berkeley.edu

David Card visited CReAM from 13th - 15th and 22nd - 29th March 2009, from 13th - 19th June 2010 and from 5th - 10th April 2011.

He is the Class of 1950 Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

He is an External Fellow at CReAM.

His website is: http://www.econ.berkeley.edu/~card/index.shtml

Jack Citrin

email: gojack@berkeley.edu

Jack Citrin visited CReAM from 6th - 10th April 2011.

He is the Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 1970.

An External Fellow at CReAM.

Website: http://polisci.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/person_detail.php?person=229

Patricia Cortes

email: pcortes@bu.edu

Patricia Cortes visited CReAM on the 30th April 2010.

She is Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago Booth Business School.

She is an External Fellow at CReAM.

Her website is: https://sites.google.com/site/pcortesbu/

Carlo Devillanova

email: carlo.devillanova@unibocconi.it

Carlo Devillanova visited CReAM from January - April 2007.

He is a Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Pomeu Fabra University, in 1998.
His main research interests are in Public Economics and Labour Economics. Currently his research focuses on the effects of social networks across undocumented immigrants on health care utilization and labour market outcomes. He is also working on the interplay between international migration, human capital formation, and the setting of migration-control policies (with A. Casarico, O. Stark, and S. Uebelmesser).

His website is: http://www.econpubblica.uni-bocconi.it/whos.php?vedi=1450&tbn=albero&id_doc=177

Mattias Engdahl

email: mattias.engdahl@nek.uu.se

Mattias Engdahl visited CReAM from 10th January - 19th June 2011.

Mattias is a PhD Student in Economics at Uppsala University.

Website: http://www.nek.uu.se/cgi/staffpage.pl?PId=200,lang=eng

Itzik Fadlon

email: itzik.fadlon@gmail.com

Itzik Fadlon visited CReAM from 1st to 15th July 2009.

He is a Master student at Tel Aviv University.

Francesco Fasani

email: francesco.fasani[at]iae.csic.es

Francesco Fasani visited CReAM from 8th - 15th October 2010, from 5th - 10th April 2011 and from 5th - 31st August 2011.

He is currently Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis (IAE-CSIC) in Barcelona. He is also Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (GSE).

His website is: https://sites.google.com/site/fasani2010/

Nicole Fortin

email: nicole.fortin@ubc.ca

Nicole Fortin visited CReAM on 31 October 2011.

She is a Professor of Economics at UBC in Vancouver, BC. Her research interests revolve around two themes: wage inequality and its links to labour market institutions and public policies, including higher education policies on the one hand, and the economic progress of women, gender equality policies, and gender issues in education, on the other.

Website: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/nfortin/

Rachel Friedberg

email: Rachel_Friedberg@brown.edu

Rachel Friedberg visited CReAM from 16th - 18th March 2010.

She is a Senior Lecturer at the Brown University.

She is an External Fellow at CReAM.

Her website is: http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Rachel_Friedberg/

Albrecht Glitz

email: albrecht.glitz@upf.edu

Albrecht Glitz visited CReAM from 23rd September - 1st October 2010.

Albrecht is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He completed his Ph.D. at University College London in 2007.

His website is: http://www.econ.upf.edu/~glitz/

Hans Grönqvist

email: hans.gronqvist@sofi.su.se

Hans Grönqvist is visiting CReAM from September 2010 - January 2011 and from 6th - 9th April 2011.

He is an Assistant Professor of Economics at SOFI, Stockholm University. He completed his Ph.D. at Uppsala University in 2009 and has also been a visiting fellow at Harvard University.

His website is: http://www2.sofi.su.se/~hgr/

Bob Gregory

email: bob.gregory@anu.edu.au

Bob Gregory visited CReAM from 19th May - 11th June 2009, from 11th - 23rd June 2010 and from 6th - 10th April 2011.

He is Professor of Economics at the Research School of Social Sciences in the Australian National University, Canberra.

An External Fellow at CReAM.

Website: http://econrsss.anu.edu.au/Staff/gregory/contact_bg.htm

Gordon Hanson

email: gohanson@ucsd.edu

Gordon Hanson visited CReAM on 23rd March 2010.

He is Professor of Economics at UC San Diegego. Prof Hanson gave a CReAM Public Lecture entitled Managing Immigration Policy in High Income Countries.

He is an External Fellow at CReAM.

His website is: http://irps.ucsd.edu/faculty/faculty-directory/gordon-hanson.htm

Oliver Himmler

email: ohimmle@gwdg.de

Oliver Himmler is scheduled to visit CReAM from 5th to 9th October 2009.

He is Research Associate at the Chair of Public Economics, University of Göttingen.

Website: http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/71224.html

Julia Horstschräer

email: horstschraeer@zew.de

ulia Horstschräer visited CReAM from 4th October - 26th November 2010. She studied Economics at the University of Frankfurt and the University of Heidelberg.

Website: http://www.zew.de/en/mitarbeiter/mitarbeiter.php3?action=mita&kurz=jhs

Tobias König

email: koenig@sopo.uni-hannover.de

Tobias König visited CReAM from 5th to 9th October 2009.

He is Research Associate at the Institute of Social Policy of the Department of Economics and Management, University of Hannover.

Website: http://www.wiwi.uni-hannover.de/sopo/people/koenig/koenig.html

Shulamit Kahn

email: skahn@bu.edu

Shulamit Kahn visited CReAM from 9th April - 14th May 2010.

She is Professor of Economics at Boston University.

Her website is: http://people.bu.edu/skahn/

Kevin Lang

email: lang@bu.edu

Kevin Lang visited CReAM from 9th April - 14th May 2010.

He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Boston University.

He is an External Fellow at CReAM.

His website is: http://people.bu.edu/lang/

Andrew Leigh

email: andrew.leigh@anu.edu.au

Andrew Leigh visited CReAM from 17th - 21st Septemeber 2007.

He is an economist in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. His current research is in the fields of labour economics, public finance and the economics of elections. He holds a PhD from Harvard University, and has previously worked as a lawyer, a political adviser, and a think-tank researcher. He has published over twenty journal articles and two books. In 2006, he received an Early Career Award from the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia.

His website is: http://econrsss.anu.edu.au/%7Ealeigh/

Thomas Lemieux

email: tlemieux@interchange.ubc.ca

Thomas Lemieux visited CReAM from 23rd - 25th September 2010.

He is a Professor of Economics and a Distinguished University Scholar at the University of British Columbia.

He is an External Fellow at CReAM.

His website is: http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/tlemieux/hmpglemi.htm

Iga Magda

email: iga.magda@gmail.com

Iga Magda visited CReAM from 1st June to 31st August 2009.

She is a Ph.D. Student at Warsaw School of Economics.

Douglas Massey

email: dmassey@princeton.edu

Douglas Massey visited CReAM from 6th - 10th April 2011.

He is the Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

An External Fellow at CReAM.

Website: http://www.princeton.edu/sociology/faculty/massey/

Karin Mayr

email: karin.mayr@univie.ac.at

Karin Mayr visited CReAM from 3rd - 26th March 2010.

She is Assistant Professor at University of Vienna

Her website is: http://homepage.univie.ac.at/karin.mayr

David McKenzie

email: dmckenzie@worldbank.org

David McKenzie visited CReAM from 10th - 11th March 2010 and from 5th - 10th April 2011.

He is a Senior Economist in the World Bank's Development Research Group.

He is an External Fellow at CReAM.

His website is: http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?authorMDK=437864&theSitePK=469372&menuPK=64214916&pagePK=64214821&piPK=64214942

Xin Meng

email: xin.meng@anu.edu.au

Xin Meng visited CReAM in June 2007, from 11th - 23rd June 2010 and from 6th - 10th April 2011.

She is an External Fellow at CReAM.

Her website is: http://econrsss.anu.edu.au/Staff/meng/contact_xm.htm

Espen R Moen

email: espen.r.moen@bi.no

Espen Moen visited CReAM from 5th - 7th October 2009.

His website is: http://www.bi.no/Content/AcademicProfile____68856.aspx?ansattid=/FGL98030

Andrew Mountford

email: a.mountford@rhul.ac.uk

Andrew Mountford is visiting CReAM, every Monday and Wednesday, starting from 29th September - 30th March 2011.

He is Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London. He received a PhD from Brown University in 1993 and a BA from Cambridge University in 1988.

He is an External Fellow at CReAM.

His website is: http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/uhte/023/

Susan Niknami

email: susan.niknami@sofi.su.se

Susan Niknami is visiting CReAM from September 2010 - January 2011 and from 6th - 9th April 2011.

She is a PhD Student in Economics at Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI).

Her website is: http://www2.sofi.su.se/~sni/

Krishna Pendakur

email: pendakur@sfu.ca

Krishna Pendakur visited CReAM on 30th October 2009 and from 15th - 24th June 2010.

He is Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada.

He is an External Fellow at CReAM.

His website is: http://www.sfu.ca/~pendakur/

Giovanni Peri

email: gperi@ucdavis.edu

Giovanni Peri visited CReAM from 23rd - 25th September 2010 and from 6th - 9th April 2011.

He is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis.

He is an External Fellow at CReAM.

His website is: http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gperi/

Patrick Puhani

email: puhani@iza.org

Patrick A. Puhani visited CReAM from 5th - 11th March 2012, from 8th - 14th December 2008 and from 2nd - 6th November 2009.

He is an External Fellow at CReAM.

His website is: http://www.aoek.uni-hannover.de/

Assaf Razin

email: razin@post.tau.ac.il

 Assaf Razin visited CReAM from 30th November - 2nd December 2009.

He is professor of Economics at Cornell University and Tel Aviv University.

His website is: http://www.tau.ac.il/~razin/

Dan-Olof Rooth

email: Dan-olof.Rooth@hik.se

Dan-Olof Rooth visited CReAM from 22nd March - 15th April 2011.

He is Professor of Economics at Linnaeus University (previously known as Kalmar University). He completed his doctorate in Economics at Lund University in Sweden in 1999.

An External Fellow at CReAM.

Website: http://lnu.se/employee/dan-olof.rooth?l=en

Mark Rosenzweig

email: mark.rosenzweig@yale.edu

Mark Rosezweig visited CReAM from 6th - 9th April 2011.

He is the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics in the Department of Economics and the Director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1973.

He is an External Fellow at CReAM.

Russell Ross

email: russell.ross@sydney.edu.au

Russell Ross visited CReAM from 5th - 14th October 2010.

Russell is an associate professor of economics and chair of discipline at The University of Sydney.

Website: http://sydney.edu.au/business/staff/russellr

Emmanuel Saez

email: saez@econ.berkeley.edu

Emmanuel Saez visited CReAM on the 15th December 2008.

His website is: http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/

Matti Sarvimäki

email: matti.sarvimaki@vatt.fi

Matti Sarvimaki visited CReAM from September 2005 - April 2006.

He has been a PhD student in the Helsinki School of Economics and a researcher in the Government Institute for Economic Research, Finland since 2003. His main research interests are in applied microeconometrics and labour economics. Currently his research focuses on immigration, particularly on economic assimilation, human capital investment and return migration.

An External Fellow at CReAM.

Website: http://hse-econ.fi/sarvimaki/

Todd Sorenson

email: todd.sorensen@ucr.edu

Todd Sorenson visited CReAM on the 7th and 8th December 2009.

He is Assistant Professor at University of California, Riverside.

His website is: http://economics.ucr.edu/sorensen.html

Chad Sparber

email: csparber@mail.colgate.edu

Chad Sparber visited CReAM from 12th January - 12th May 2009.

He is an External Fellow at CReAM.

His website is: http://people.colgate.edu/csparber/

Robert Wagner

email: robert.wagner@bwl.lmu.de

He is a PhD student at the University of Munich.

Robert Wagner visited CReAM from 9th January - 24th February 2012.

His website is: http://www.en.wipaed.bwl.uni-muenchen.de/team/co-workers/wagner/index.html

Yoram Weiss

email: weiss@post.tau.ac.il

Yoram Weiss visited CReAM from 10th October - 9th November 2008, from 26th September - 13th October 2006, from 1st - 31st July 2009, from 30th May - 4th July 2010 and from 1st - 31st April 2011.

He is a Professor of Economics at the Tel-Aviv University since 1980 and holds the Daniel and Grace Ross Chair in Labor Economics since 1993. He received his MA in Economics from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1964 and his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University in 1968.

He is an External Fellow at CReAM.

His website is: http://econ.tau.ac.il/people/bio.asp?theSubject=people&id=240

Andreas Wimmer

email: awimmer@soc.ucla.edu

Andreas Wimmer visited CReAM from 5th - 10th April 2011.

He is Professor of Sociology at University of California (UCLA). He received a PhD in social anthropology from University of Zurich in 1992 and a habilitation two years later

An External Fellow at CReAM.

Website: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/wimmer/

Dean C. Yang

email: deanyang@umich.edu

Dean Yang visited CReAM from 23rd - 28th May 2011.

He is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Ford School of Public Policy and Department of Economics, University of Michigan. He received his undergraduate and Ph.D. degrees in economics from Harvard University.

An External Fellow at CReAM.

Website: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~deanyang/

Eran Yashiv

email: yashiv@post.tau.ac.il

Eran Yashiv visited CReAM from 5th to 8th May 2009 and from 5th to 7th October 2009.

An External Fellow at CReAM.

Website: http://www.tau.ac.il/~yashiv/