Publications by topic

Drivers of  EU Migration

• Expecting Brexit and UK Migration: Should I go? (Co-authored with Valentina Di Iasio) European Economic Review, August 2023, vol. 157, 104484 

• The Determinants of Refugees’ Destinations: Where Do Refugees Locate within the EU? (Co-authored with Valentina Di Iasio) World Development, May 2024, vol. 177, 106533. 

• Natives' Attitudes and Immigration Flows to Europe. IZA Discussion Paper No. 15942, 2023. (Co-authored with Valentina Di Iasio)

Norms and Migration

• Diaspora Networks as a Bridge between Civilizations. World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration, Sauer, R. (ed). Vol 2, World Scientific, forthcoming 2023 (Co-authored with Ishac Diwan and Michele Tuccio) NEW

• Social Remittances. In: Zimmermann K. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham, 2020. (Co-authored with Tuccio M.) 

• International migration as a driver of political and social change: evidence from Morocco, Journal of Population Economics,  2019, vol. 32, 1171–1203  (Co-authored with Michele Tuccio and Bachir Hamdouch).

• Return Migration and the Transfer of Gender Norms: Evidence from the Middle East, Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46:1006-1029. (Co-authored with Michele Tuccio)

Determinants of Return Migration 

• Return versus Onward Migration: Go Back or Move On? (Co-authored with Govert Bijwaard), Review of Income and Wealth, 2022. 

• The Economics of Return Migration. In King R & Kuschminder K.  (eds.) Handbook on Return Migration. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2022. 

• Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2019, vol. 81, no. 5, 1065-1094 (Co-authored with Govert Bijwaard).

• The Impact of Brexit on International Students' Return Intentions (Co-authored with Jane Falkingham, Corrado Giulietti and Chuhong Wang), The Manchester School 2021, vol. 89, 139-171. 

• Remigration Plans and Migrants' Behaviour, Regional Science & Urban Economics, January 2018, 68, 56-72.(with Bastien Chabé-Ferret, Joel Machado)

• Return migration and economic development,  the International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development, R.E Lucas (ed) Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 2014. (PDF)

• Do High-Income or Low-Income Immigrants Leave Faster? Journal of Development Economics, 2014, 108: 54-68. (Co-authored with G. Bijwaard)

• The Impact of Labor Market Dynamics on the Return-Migration of Immigrants, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2014, 96(3): 483–494 . (Co-authored with G. Bijwaard and C. Schluter).

Refugees

• Training teachers for diversity awareness: Impact on school attendance of refugee children. (Co-authored with Semih Tumen and Michael Vlassopoulos) Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.

• Impact of Refugees on Male Immigrants’ Labor Market Outcomes in Jordan, (Co-authored with Bilal Malaeb) International Migration Review. 2024, vol. 58, Issue 1, March 2024, pp. 410-441 .

• Expecting Brexit and UK Migration: Should I go? (Co-authored with Valentina Di Iasio) European Economic Review, August 2023, vol. 157, 104484 

• Syrian Refugees and the Migration Dynamics of Jordanians: Moving in or moving out? (Co-authored with Nelly Elmallakh) Economic Development and Cultural Change, July 2023, vol. 71, no. 4. (CReAM DP version)

• Terror Headlines and Voting. (Co-authored with Armine Ghazaryan and Corrado Giulietti) Economic Letters, July 2022. (Also CPC DP 98, March 2022). 

• Cooperation in a Fragmented Society: Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon (Co-authored with Michalis Drouvelis, Bilal Malaeb, Michael Vlassopoulos), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, vol. 187, 176-191. 

• Ethnic Mixing in Early Childhood: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment and a Structural Model (Co-authored with Vincent Boucher, Semih Tumen, Michael, Vlassopoulos, and Yves Zenou) CEPR DP15528, and IZA DP 14260. April 2021. 

• The Impact of Refugees on Employment and Wages in Jordan, Journal of Development Economics,  June 2019,vol.139, 203-216  (Co-authored with Belal Fellah, Caroline Krafft)

• Migration Dynamics during the Refugee Influx in Jordan, (co-authored with B. Malaeb), in  The Jordanian Labor Market: Between Fragility and Resilience, (eds)  Krafft, C. and Assaad, R. 2019, Oxford University Press, USA .

Return Migration and Entrepreneurship

• Return migration and entrepreneurship in Morocco, Middle East Development Journal, 7, 2015, 129-148 (Co-authored with Bachir Hamdouch).

• Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind, Research in Labor Economics, 2013, (Co-authored with C. Giulietti and K. Zimmermann).

• Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Migration, Entrepreneurship and Social Capital. 2012. Regional Science and Urban Economics. Sept 2012, vol. 42, 890-903. (Co-authored with Y. Zenou).

• Return International Migration and Geographical Inequality: The Case of Egypt (Co-authored with B. McCormick) Journal of African Economies, December 2003, vol.12, no.4, 500-532 . 

• Overseas Work Experience, Savings and Entrepreneurship amongst Return Migrants to LDCs. The Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Special Issue, May 2001, vol.48, no 2,164-178. (Co-authored with B. McCormick). 

• Overseas Employment and Remittances to a Dual Economy, April 2000, The Economic Journal, vol. 110 no 463, pp.509-534. (Co-authored with B. McCormick). 

Impact of Return Migration 

• Upward or Downward: Occupational Mobility and Return Migration (Co-authored with Nelly Elmallakh), World Development, 2021, vol. 137, 105203. 

• Selection, selection, selection: the impact of return migration, Journal of Population Economics, 2015.

• Returns to Overseas Work Experience: The Case of Egypt in International Migration, Economic Development & Policy, Ozden, C. and Schiff, M. (eds.) Washington DC, The World Bank, 2007.

Welfare Migration

• Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden, and Immigration Skill Selectivity, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015. (Co-authored with A. Razin).

• Welfare Migration, the International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. 2013.  (Co-authored with C. Giulietti)

Social Networks and Labour Market Outcomes

• Strong versus weak ties in migration. European Economic Review, 2018, 104, 111-137. (with Corrado Giulietti & Yves Zenou) 

• With a Lot of Help from my Friends: Social Networks and Immigrants in the UK, Population, Space and Place, 2013. (Co-authored with Co. Giulietti and C. Schluter)

• Density, social networks and job search methods: Theory and application to Egypt, Journal of Development Economics,  2005, vol. 78, no 2, 443-473. (co-authored with Y. Zenou).

Student Migration 

• The Impact of Brexit on International Students' Return Intentions (Co-authored with J. Falkingham, C. Giulietti and C. Wang), The Manchester School 2021, vol. 89, 139-171. 

Illegal Migration

• Return Migrants and the Wage Premium: Does the Legal Status of Migrants Matter? (Co-authored with Nelly Elmallakh) Journal of Population Economics, 2021. 

• Illegal Migration, Wages, and Remittances: Semi-Parametric Estimation of Illegality Effects, 2009, IZA DP 4527, (Co-authored with Christian Schluter). 

Internal Migration

• Why Do the Young and Educated in LDCs Concentrate in Large Cities? Evidence from Migration Data, Economica, February 2005, vol.72, 39-67. (Co-authored with B. McCormick). (PDF)

• Did Public Jobs with Wage Premiums Fuel Agglomeration in LDCs? Journal of Development Economics, April 2003, vol. 70, 349-379. (Co-authored with Barry M.) (PDF)

Child Labour

• Child Labor. In: James D. Wright (editor-in-chief), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, 2015, Vol 3. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 405–409. 

• Are parents altruistic? Evidence from Mexico. Journal of Population Economics, June 2010, vol. 23,  no 3, 1025-1046 (co-authored with C. Schluter). 

• Child labour, Urban Proximity and Household Composition, Journal of Development Economics. April 2006, vol. 79, no 2, 374-397. (co-authored with M. Fafchamps). 

• The Influence of Market Wages and Parental History on Child Labour and Child Schooling in Egypt. Journal of Population Economics. November 2006, vol. 19, 832-852.

Labour Mobility and Informal Employment

• Political Change and Informality: Evidence from the Arab Spring, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2019, 27(1): 31–66. (Co-authored with A. Elsayed)

• Flexible Labor Regulations and Informality. Review of Development Economics, Special Issue, November 2017, 21 (4): 962–984.  (Co-authored with R. Assaad)

• The Impact of Labor Market Reforms on Informality in Egypt, 2009, Population Council, working paper no 3 . PDF

• Labour mobility in Egypt: Are the 1990s any different from the 1980s?', in Assaad, R. (ed.) The Labour Market in a Reforming Economy: Egypt in the 1990s, Ch. 8, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002.

• Informalisation of Labour in Egypt, in Assaad, R. (ed.) The Labour Market in a Reforming Economy: Egypt in the 1990s, Ch. 4, Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002. (Co-authored with M. Moktar)