Today the Journal of Labor Economics published the paper with Mette Foged and Linea Hasager on the long run effects of integration polices on the employment probability and earnings of refugees. It is in the Special Issue in honor of David Card. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Last week to apply for the Summer School on Economics of Migration, Mexico City, September 9-12, 2024 organized by UC Davis Global Migration Center and AlianzaMX. All Economics PhD student s and Post-Docs from any Institution of the Americas qualify!

After years of hard work with Steve Boucher (ARE), Joe Chen (GSM), Jeff Willams (ARE), Hollis Skaife (GSM) and Derek Stimel (Econ) we are launching the Business Major at UC Davis. Jointly managed by UC Davis GSM , UC Davis Agricultural and Resource Economics and UC Davis Economics . Read about it on The California Aggie.

Very honored that the AEA (aeaweb.org) has nominated me to stand election as Member of the Executive Committee, with Elizabeth U. Cascio , Kristin F. Butcher (she/her) and Damon Jones. There is also another election in the US in the fall... "get out the vote" 😂 aeaweb.org/news/2024-aea-…

With Alessandro Caiumi we modernized and updated a classic approach to the effects of immigrants on US national labor markets. Strong immigrant-native complementarieties result in positive wage effects and positive employment effects in 2000-2022. nber.org/papers/w32389

Stuart Anderson on Forbes talks about my recent NBER WP with Alessandro Caiumi: “Immigration, thanks to native-immigrant complementarity and college skill content had an effect between +1.7% and +2.6% on wages of less educated US workers in 2000-2019 ” lnkd.in/gu-Pa2p2

With Paris School of Economics , CEPII, Bank of Spain and Bank of France we finalized the program of the first European Workshop on Macroeconomics of Migration. Several interesting presentation and great keynotes! Link below. See you in Paris June 13-14, 2024! globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/…

Today, the UC Davis College of Letters and Sciences Magazine, is featuring a piece on the research we do at the @UCD_globalMC lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/feature/weavin…

What a fantastic conference day with our UCD Economics PHD Alumni, from all over the world! Very interesting papers, great environment, I loved to see you all! Go UC Davis Economics!!

In this new paper with Gueyon Kim and Cassandra Merritt we develop a text-based measure of ‘’new work’ and we analyze the role of global shocks and local factors in predicting it. Local college educated supply is a key factor in stimulating new work. nber.org/papers/w32526

We celebrated with Gary S. May the creation of a new Business Major at UC Davis, starting in Fall 2025. See below the "Dream Team" that brought this Major to existence, Derek, Giovanni, Hollis, Jeff, Joe and Steve, with Provost Mary Croughan and Professor Ari Kelman.

Today's Macro Roundup cites our recent NBER working paper 32526,with Gueyon Kim and Cassie Merritt: "The density of four-year colleges in 1980 is the most important predictor of a region’s employment growth in high-skilled cognitive analytical “new job” categories in 1980-2010".

Last days to submit a paper to the 3rd Immigration and Macro conference, North America, in Mexico City October 11-12, 2024, co-organized by UC Davis Global Migration Center . The deadline for submission is July 30th , 2024. conference webpage at: globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/events/2024mac…

In an interview with The Epoch Times I talk about the benefits of immigration in the US, measured in the paper with Alessandro Caiumi. Immigration and the Economy: A Complicated Picture | The Epoch Times

The Economist discusses the growth of legal immigration in the US, pointing out some important facts that we showed in our research with Reem Zaiour economist.com/united-states/…

Immigration promises to be a key issue in the Presidential and Congressional campaigns. Candidates from both parties favor limits but differ on the extent of restrictions. I joined EconoFactOrg Chats to discuss these issues econofact.org/podcast/immigr…

I had a long and interesting conversation with Mike Lee on immigration and jobs and immigration and crime. He edited and posted it here: Are Immigrants Causing a Crime Wave and Stealing American Jobs? (substack.com)

Here is the "Big Conversation" with MIke Lee on immigrants and jobs and immigrants and crime: mikeleenews.substack.com/p/are-immigran…

Next Week: 3rd edition of the Summer School in Economics of Migration, Mexico City with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Gaurav Khanna and Santiago Pérez will be teaching 29 selected PhD students and Post-Docs from top Universities hear their research projects. globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/3rd_summer_sch…

At the summer school in Economics of Migration, co-sponsored by UC Davis Global Migration Center and AlianzaMX this year, we will host "A conversation with New York Times Columnist, Eduardo Porter" Eduardo Porter on September 10th, 2024. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…