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Barry R. Chiswick
VITA
BARRY R. CHISWICK
MAILING ADDRESS: / PRIMARY APPOINTMENTDepartment of Economics
GeorgeWashingtonUniversity
2115 G Street, NW
Monroe Hall 340
Washington, DC 20052 / Professor and Chair
Department of Economics
GeorgeWashingtonUniversity
Department of Economics
Phone: (202) 994-8680
FAX:(202) 994-6147
E-mail: / Personal Information:
U.S. Citizen
Married, 2 Adult Children
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FIELDS
Labor Economics and Human Resources
Immigration, Language, and Minorities
Economics of Religion
Economic Theory
Statistics and Applied Econometrics
Public Policy Analysis
ACADEMIC DEGREES
Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, Lund University, Sweden, 2009
Ph.D. (With Distinction), Economics, ColumbiaUniversity, 1967
M.A., Economics, Columbia University, 1964
B.A., Economics, BrooklynCollege, 1962 (Distinguished Alumnus Award, 1999
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PUBLICATIONS
A. Books and Monographs
Recent Developments in the Economics of International Migration, Volumes I and II, editor (with Paul W. Miller), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishers, 2012.
High Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market, editor, WashingtonDC; American Enterprise Institute, 2011, (Edited Proceedings April 2009 conference).
Consequences of Immigration, (with Magnus Lofstrom), editors, Special Issue of Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 9, No. 1, March 2011.
The Labor Market Adjustment of Immigrants, (with Magnus Lofstom), editors, Special Issue of Review of Economics of the Household, Vol. 8, No. 1, March 2010.
Immigration: Trends, Consequences and Prospects for the United States, editor, Special Issue, Research in Labor Economics, V. 27, Amsterdam: Elsevier,2008.
The Economics of Language: International Analyses, (with Paul W. Miller),London, Routledge, 2007.
The Economics of Immigration: Selected Papers of Barry R. Chiswick, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.
The Economics of Immigrant Skill and Adjustment, editor, Special Issue, Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 37, 1997.
Immigration, Language and Ethnicity: Canada and the United States, editor, Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1992. (Edited proceedings, May 1990 conference)
Post-Immigration Qualifications in Australia: Determinants and Consequences (with Paul W. Miller), Canberra: Australian Government Printing Service, 1992.
Illegal Aliens: Their Employment and Employers, Kalamazoo: Upjohn Institute, 1988.
The Dilemma of American Immigration: Beyond the Golden Door (with Pastora Cafferty, Andrew Greeley, Teresa Sullivan), New Brunswick: Transaction Books (RutgersUniversity), 1983.
The Employment of Immigrants in the United States, Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1982.
The Gateway: U.S. Immigration Issues and Policies, editor, Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1982. (Edited proceedings, April 1980 conference)
An Analysis of the Economic Progress and Impact of Immigrants, Prepared for the Employment and Training Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. National Technical Information Service, August 1980, PB80-200454, 1980, 410 pp. Executive Summary reprinted in U. S. Immigration Policy and the National Interest, Washington: Select Commission on Immigration and Refugee Policy, 1981, Appendix D, "Papers on Legal Immigrants to the United States," pp. 211-222.
Human Resources and Income Distribution: Issues and Policies, (with June O'Neill), New York: W. W. Norton, 1977.
Statistics and Econometrics, (with Stephen J. Chiswick), Baltimore: University Park Press, 1975 (Aspen Systems Corp., Rockville, MD).
Income Inequality: Regional Analyses Within a Human Capital Framework, New York; National Bureau of Economic Research, 1974.
B. Articles
“Religion and Child Health: Religious Affiliation, Importance, and Attendance and Health Status Among American Youth” (with Donka Mirtcheva) Journal of Family and Economic Issues (forthcoming)
"Social Contacts and the Economic Performance of Immigrants: A Panel Study of Immigrants in Germany" (with Agnieszka Kanas, Tranja van der Lippe and Frank van Tubergen), International Migration Review, (forthcoming).
“Negative and Positive Assimilation, Skill Transferability and Linguistic Distance” (with Paul Miller), Journal of Human Capital, Vol 6, No. 1, Spring 2012, pp. 35-55
"Immigration: High-Skilled versus Low-Skilled Labour?" A 'Sustainable' Population? - Key Policy Issues, Canberra: Australia, Productivity Commission, 2011, pp. 27-40
“Ethnic Intermarriage Among Immigrants: Human Capital and Assortative Mating” (with Christina Housworth), Review of Economics of the Household, Vol.9, No.2, June 2011, pp. 149-180
“Educational Mismatch: Are High-Skilled Immigrants Really Working in High-Skilled Jobs, and What Price Do They Pay if They Are Not” (with Paul W. Miller) in Barry R. Chiswick, ed., High Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market, WashingtonDC: American Enterprise Institute, 2011, pp. 109-154.
“Top Ten Myths and Fallacies Regarding Immigration” in Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Vivian Louie, and Roberto Suro, eds. Writing Immigration: Scholars and Journalists in Dialogue, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011, pp. 136-148.
“The ‘Negative’ Assimilation of Immigrants: A Special Case” (with Paul W. Miller) Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 64, No. 3, April 2011, pp. 502-525.
“Does the Choice of Reference Levels of Education Matter in the ORU Earnings Equation?” (with Paul W. Miller), Economics of Education Review, 29(6), December 2010, pp. 1076-1085.
“The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants” (with Paul W. Miller), in Gil Epstein and Ira Gang, editors, Migration and Culture, (Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Volume X), Emerald Group Publishing, 2010, pp. 67-103.
“The Effects of Educational-Occupational Mismatch on Immigrant Earnings in Australia, with International Comparisons” (with Paul W. Miller)International Migration Review, Vol. 44, No. 4, Winter 2010, pp. 908-937.
“The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From Eighteenth Century Merchants toTwenty-First Century Professionals” in Aaron Levine, ed., Oxford Handbook ofJudaism and Economics, New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 2010, pp. 625-645.
“Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the United States Labor Market” (with Paul W. Miller) Journal of Population Economics, 23(1) January 2010, pp. 353-372.
“Testing the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis with Longitudinal Data” (with Michael Beenstock and Ari Paltiel) Review of Economics of the Household, 8(1), March 2010, pp. 7-28.
“An Explanation for the Lower Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market” (with Paul W. Miller) in Ted McDonald, Elizabeth Ruddick, Arthur Sweetman, and Christopher Warswick, eds., Canadian Immigration: Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment, Montreal and Ithaca: McGill-Queen’s University Press, distributed by Cornell University Press Services, 2010, pp. 41-75.
“Citizenship in the United States: The Roles of Immigrant Characteristics and Country of Origin” (with Paul W. Miller) Research in Labor Economics 29, 2009, pp. 91–130.
“Earnings and Occupational Attainment Among Immigrants” (with Paul W. Miller) Industrial Relations48 (3), July 2009, pp. 454-465.
“The International Transferability of Immigrant’s Human Capital” (with Paul W. Miller) Economics of Education Review, 28(2), April 2009, pp. 162 – 169.
“The Economics of Language for Immigrants: An Introduction and Overview” in Terrance Wiley, Jin Sook Lee and Russell Rumberger, eds., The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in the United States, Bristol: Multilingual Matters, Ltd., 2009, pp. 72-91, and Julian Simon Lecture (IV), IZA—Institute for the Study of Labor, Lecture 2007, Pamphlet 2008.
“Why is the Payoff to Schooling Smaller for Immigrants?” (with Paul W. Miller), Labour Economics, 15(6), December 2008, pp. 1,317–1,340.
“The Rise and Fall of the American Jewish PhD,” Contemporary Jewry, 29(1), April 2009,67-84. (Marshall Sklare Lecture, Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry, Annual Meeting, Toronto, December 2007).
“The Earnings of American Jewish Men: Human Capital, Denomination and Religiosity” (with Jidong Huang) Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 47(4), December 2008, pp. 694—709.
“Occupational Attainment and Immigrant Economic Progress in Australia” (with Paul W. Miller), Economic Record 84, Special Issue, September 2008, pp. 845-856.
“Immigrant Selection Systems and Immigrant Health” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller), Contemporary Economic Policy,26(4), October 2008, pp. 555–578.
“How Immigrants Fare Across the Earnings Distribution: International Analyses,” (with Ahn T. Le and Paul W. Miller), Industrial andLabor Relations Review, 61(3), April 2008, pp. 353-373.
“A Test of the Critical Period Hypothesis for Language Learning,” (with Paul W. Miller),Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 29 (1), 2008, pp. 16-29.
“Modeling Immigrant’s Language Skills” (with Paul W. Miller), in Barry R. Chiswick, editor, Immigration: Trends, Consequences and Prospects for the United States, Special Issue, Research in Labor Economics, 27, (2008), pp.75-128.
“Immigrant Enclaves, Ethnic Goods, and the Adjustment Process,” (with Paul W. Miller) in Elliott R. Barkan, Hasia Diner and Alan Kraut, eds., From Arrival to Incorporation: Migrants to the US in a Global Era, New York: New YorkUniversityPress, 2008, pp. 80-93.
“Occupational Choice of High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States,” (with Sarinda Taegnoi), International Migration, 45 (5), Nov/Dec 2007, pp. 3-34.
“High Skilled Immigrants in the International Arena,” in T.R. Shastri, ed., Emigration: Economic Implications, IcfaiUniversityPress,India, 2007, pp. 84-95.
“Computer Usage, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants,” (with Paul W. Miller), Review of the Economics of the Household, 5 (2), June 2007, pp. 129-157.
“The Occupational Attainment of American Jewry, 1990-2000,” Contemporary Jewry, 27 (2007), pp.80-111.
“Are There Gender and Country of Origin Differences in Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes Across European Destinations?” (with Alicia Adsera), Journal of Population Economics, 20 (2007), pp.495-526.
“Immigration to Australia During the 1990s: Institutional and Labour Market Influences,” (with Paul W. Miller), in Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2006, pp. 3-24.
“Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: The Role of Immigration Policy” (with Paul W. Miller), in Deborah Cobb-Clark and Siew-Ean Khoo (eds.), Public Policy and Immigrant Settlement, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2006, pp. 121-148.
“Immigrants’ Language Skills and Visa Category” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller), International Migration Review, 40 (2), Summer 2006, pp. 419-450.
“The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States:1980 to 2000” (with Michael Wenz),Research in Labor Economics, 24, 2006, pp. 179-216.
“Divergent Patterns in Immigrant Earnings Across European Destinations” (with Alicia Adsera) in Craig A. Parsons and Timothy M. Smeeding, eds. Immigration and the Transformation of Europe,Cambridge, UK: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2006, pp. 85-110.
“Pre-School Enrollment: An Analysis by Immigrant Generation” (with Noyna DebBurman), Social Science Research, 35, 2006, pp. 60-87.
“Immigrant Earnings: A Longitudinal Analysis,” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller), Review of Income and Wealth, 51(4), December 2005, pp. 485-503.
“Parents and Children Talk: English Language Proficiency within Immigrant Families” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller), Review of Economics of the Household, 3, 2005, pp. 243-268.
“Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller), International Migration Review,39(2), Summer 2005, pp. 332-353.
“Linguistic Distance: A Quantitative Measure of the Distance Between English and Other Languages” (with Paul W. Miller), Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 26(1), 2005, pp. 1-16.
“Family Matters: The Role of the Family in Immigrant’s Destination Language Skills,” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller)Journal of Population Economics, 18, 2005, pp. 631-647.
“Do Enclaves Matter in Immigrant Adjustment?” (with Paul W. Miller), City and Community. 4(1), March 2005, pp. 5-36. Earlier version with the same title published in Hebrew in Rivon Le Kalkalah (The Economic Quarterly), 50(2), June 2003, pp. 285-325. Recipient of the Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research, 2001.
“Where Immigrants Settle in the United States” (with Paul W. Miller), Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 6(2), August 2004, pp. 185-197.
“Educational Attainment: Analysis by Immigrant Generation” (with Noyna DebBurman), Economics of Education Review, 23(4), August 2004, pp. 361-379.
“Issue Paper on the Impact of Immigration for Housing” (with Paul W. Miller), in Jennifer Johnson and Jessica Cigna, eds., Issue Papers on Demographic Trends Important for Housing, Office of Policy Research and Development, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, February 2003, pp. 1-78. ( .html)
“Patterns of Immigrant Occupational Attainment in a Longitudinal Survey” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller), International Migration, 41(4), 2003, pp. 47-69.
“Jacob Mincer, Experience and the Distribution of Earnings” Review of Economics of theHousehold,1(4), December 2003, pp. 343-362. Reprinted in Shoshona Grossbard, ed. Jacob Mincer: APioneer of Modern Labor Economics, Springer, 2006, pp. 109-126.
“Immigrants’ Language Skills: The Immigrant Experience in a Longitudinal Survey” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller), Annales d’Economieet de Statistique, Special Issue, “Discrimination and Unequal Outcomes,” N. 71-72, July/December 2003, pp. 97-139.
“Schooling, Literacy, and Numeracy and Labour Market Success” (with Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller), Economic Record, 79(245), June 2003, pp. 165-181.
“International Migration and the Integration of Labor Markets” (with Timothy J. Hatton) in Michael Bordo, Alan Taylor and Jeffrey Williamson, eds. Globalization in Historical Perspective, Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2003, pp. 65-119.
“The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital: Immigrant Earnings in Canada” (with Paul W. Miller), Economics of Education Review, 22 (2003), pp. 469-480, Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Working Paper No. 148, February 1999 (modified title).
“American Jewry: An Economic Perspective and Research Agenda” Contemporary Jewry, 23, 2002, pp. 156-182. Revised and updated in Carmel U. Chiswick, Tikva Leckerand Nava Kahana, eds.,Jewish Society and Culture: An Economic Perspective, Ramat Gan, Israel, Bar- Ilan University Press, 2007, pp. 177-206.
“Immigrant Earnings: Language Skills, Linguistic Concentrations and the Business Cycle” (with Paul W. Miller), Journal of Population Economics, 15(1) January 2002, pp. 31-57. Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, GraduateSchool of Business, University of Chicago, Working Paper No. 152, June 1999. Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor Working Paper No. 31, 1997. Reprinted in Klaus F. Zimmermann and Amelie Constant, eds., How Labor Migrants Fare, Springer-Verlag, 2004, pp. 223-250.
“A Model of Destination Language Acquisition: Application to Male Immigrants in Canada” (with Paul W. Miller), Demography, 38(3), August 2001, pp. 391-409. Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, Working Paper No. 149, February 1999 (modified title).
“Immigrant Adjustment in Israel: Literacy and Fluency in Hebrew and Earnings” (with Gaston Repetto), in Slobodan Djajic, ed. International Migration: Trends, Policy and Economic Impact, New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 204-228, and in Sergio DellaPergola and Judith Even, eds., Papers in Jewish Demography, Jerusalem; HebrewUniversity, 2001, pp. 351-378.
“The Effect of Linguistic Distance and Country of Origin on Immigrant Language Skills: Application to Israel” (with Michael Beenstock and Gaston L. Repetto), International Migration, 39(3), September 2001, pp. 33-60.
“The Determinants of the Geographic Concentration Among Immigrants: Application to Australia” (with Paul W. Miller and Yew Liang Lee), Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 7(2), November 2001, pp. 125-150.
“The Cost of Living Jewishly and Jewish Continuity” (with CarmelU. Chiswick), Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 21, 2000, pp. 78-90. Reprinted in CarmelU. Chiswick, Economics of American Judaism, London: Routledge, 2008, pp. 107-117.
“Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis” in Caroline D. Brettell and James F. Hollifield, eds. Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines, New York: Routledge, 2000, pp. 61-76. Revised and updated for Second Edition, 2008, pp. 63-82.
“The Billings Report and the Occupational Attainment of American Jewry, 1890” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 19(2), Winter 2001, pp.53-75.
“The Economics of Illegal Migration for the Host Economy” in M.A.B. Siddique, ed. International Migration into the 21st Century, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001, pp. 74-85. Preliminary version with same title published in Dilek Cinar, August Gachter and Harold Waldsauch, eds. Irregular Migration: Dynamics Impact and Policy Options, Vienna: Eurosocial, 2000, pp. 165-174.
“Indigenous Language Skills and the Labor Market in a Developing Economy: Bolivia” (with Harry A. Patrinos and Michael Hurst), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 48(2), January 2000, pp. 349-367.
“The Employment, Unemployment and Unemployment Compensation Benefits of Immigrants” (with Michael Hurst), in Laurie J. Bassi and Stephen A. Woodbury, eds., Long-Term Unemployment and Reemployment Policies, (Research in Employment Policy, Vol. 2), Stamford, CN, JAI Press, 2000, pp. 87-115.
“Hispanics and the American Labor Market” (with Michael Hurst) in Pastora San Juan Cafferty and David W. Engstrom, eds., Hispanics in the United States: An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century, New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 2000, pp. 175-193.
“Census Language Questions in North America” (with Paul W. Miller), Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 25(2), pp. 73-95.
“Immigration, Language and Multiculturalism in Australia” (with Paul W. Miller) Australian Economic Review, 32(4), December 1999, pp. 369-385.
“The Occupational Attainment and Earnings of American Jewry, 1890 to 1990” Contemporary Jewry, Vol. 20, 1999, pp. 68-98.
“Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected?” American Economic Review, 89 (2), May 1999, pp. 181-185. Reprinted in Mathias Czaika and Carlos Vargas-Silva, eds. Migration and Economic Growth, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012.
“Language Skills and Earnings Among Legalized Aliens,” (with Paul W. Miller), Journal of Population Economics, 12(1), February 1999, pp. 63-91 (Bureau of International Labor Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor, Special Legalization Report Series). Reprinted in Klaus F. Zimmermann and Amelie Constant, eds., How Labor Migrants Fare, Springer-Verlag, 2004, pp. 279-306.
“A Method for Proxying a Respondent’s Religious Background: An Application to School Choice Decisions” (with Stella Koutroumanes Hofrenning), Journal of Human Resources, 34(1), Winter 1999, pp. 193-207.
“Language Practice and the Economic Well-Being of Immigrants” (with Paul W. Miller) Policy Options/Options Politiques, May/Mai 1999, pp. 45-50.
“Policy Analysis of Foreign Student Visas” in B. Lindsay Lowell, ed. Foreign Temporary Workers in America, London: Quorum Books, 1999, pp. 211-223. Reprinted from B. Lindsay Lowell, ed. Temporary Migrants in the United States, Washington: U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, 1996, pp. 233-245.
“Language Skill Definition: A Study of Legalized Aliens,” (with Paul W. Miller), International Migration Review, 32(4), Winter 1998, pp. 877-900.
“English Language Fluency Among Immigrants in the United States” (with Paul W. Miller), Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 17, 1998, pp. 151-200.
“Hebrew Language Usage: Determinants and Effects on Earnings Among Immigrants in Israel” Journal of Population Economics, 11(2), May 1998, pp. 253-271. (Falk Institute for Economic Research in Israel, Jerusalem, Discussion Paper No. 97.09).
“Interpreting the Coefficient of Schooling in the Human Capital Earnings Function” Journal of Educational Planning and Administration, 12(2), April 1998, pp. 123-130. (Research Policy Working Paper No. 1790, Human Development Department, World Bank, June 1997). Reprinted in Jandhyala B.G. Tilak, ed.,Education, Society and Development: A Commemorative Volume of the 40th Year of the NationalInstitute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi, 2003, pp. 515-522.
“The Labor Market Status of Immigrants: A Synthesis” (with Michael Hurst) in Hermann Kurthen, et al., eds. Immigration, Citizenship and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States: Immigrant Incorporation, Stamford, CN: JAI Press, 1998, pp.73-94.
“The Economic Consequences of Immigration: Application to the United States and Japan” in Myron Weiner and Tadashi Hanami, eds. Temporary Workers or Future Citizens? Japanese and U.S. Migration Policies, New YorkUniversity Press, 1998, pp. 177-208. Japanese language edition, Tokyo, Japan Institute of Labor, 2000, pp. 162-190.