Dr. Amelie Constant
Senior Visiting Fellow

AICGS is pleased to welcome Dr. Amelie Constant as Senior Visiting Fellow in 2006. Dr. Constant studied Economics at the University of Paris II, and received her Ph.D. in Labor Economics and Econometrics from Vanderbilt University in 1998. After her post-doctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania, she joined the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. Since January 2004, she has worked as a Senior Research Associate and the Deputy Program Director of Migration at IZA, currently managing the "Migrant Ethnicity" project, an interdisciplinary and international project funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.

Dr. Constant's research interests are in international migration, assimilation issues, gendered differences in labor market outcomes, occupational mobility, labor market segmentation, and schooling quality and earnings. She has conducted research and published papers on Markov-chain based models and queuing theory to study various demanding applications, resource allocation, and immigrant assimilation. While most of her migration research is on Germany, she has also done research on migration in France, Denmark, and the U.S. She has published in the Journal of Population Economics, Population Research and Policy Review, International Migration, Small Business Economics, The International Journal of Manpower, and Applied Economics Quarterly. She has written many book chapters on migration, and is the co-editor of the book "How Labor Migrants Fare?" Her newest work focuses on ethnic diversity, national identities, immigrant entrepreneurship in an inter-country setting, risk attitudes, and brain drain.

Dr. Constant has also taught several courses in microeconomics, macroeconomics, international trade, statistics, and labor economics at the University of Alabama and Drexel University. She has been invited to present her research at institutions like Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, George Washington University, and numerous professional meetings.

During her four-month stay at AICGS, Dr. Constant will be conducting research about migration issues in the United States, specifically examining the guest worker program and measuring ethnicity levels throughout the country.