Joël Machado

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Joël Machado is a tenured Researcher at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER). He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the Université catholique de Louvain in October 2014. From July 2015 until June 2017, he worked as an AFR-FNR Postdoc fellow at CREA, University of Luxembourg on his project: “The impact of migration policies on migrant’s selection and behavior”.

Joël’s current research interests include the effects of public policies on migrants' behavior and the impact of migration flows on the labor markets, economic development and inequality of both origin and destination countries. His work has been published in journals including the Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Development Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, the Journal of Demographic Economics and The World Economy.

Joël Machado joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 2019.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16935
The Externalities of Immigration Policies on Migration Flows: The Case of an Asylum Policy
Lucas Guichard, Joël Machado
published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2025, 25 (1), 59–74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16497
The Within-Country Distribution of Brain Drain and Brain Gain Effects: A Case Study on Senegal
Philippe Bocquier, Narcisse Cha’Ngom, Frédéric Docquier, Joël Machado
published in: Journal of Demographic Economics, 2024, 90 (3), 384-411
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16222
Selective Migration and Economic Development: A Generalized Approach
Narcisse Cha’Ngom, Christoph Deuster, Frédéric Docquier, Joël Machado
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14155
Why Do Migrants Stay Unexpectedly? Misperceptions and Implications for Integration
Marc Kaufmann, Joël Machado, Bertrand Verheyden
substantially revised version published in: Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2025, 117, 103099.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10275
The Gain from the Drain: Skill-biased Migration and Global Welfare
Costanza Biavaschi, Michal Burzynski, Benjamin Elsner, Joël Machado
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142, 102317
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10111
Return Plans and Migrants' Behavior
Bastien Chabé-Ferret, Joël Machado, Jackline Wahba
published as 'Remigration Intentions and Migrants' Behavior' in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, 68, 56-72.
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