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.

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!

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…

With the UC Davis Global Migration Center UC Davis Global Migration Center , Bank of Canada, S.F. Fed San Francisco Fed, and Banco de Mexico Banco de México we are organizing the yealry conference on Macroeconomic Implications of MIgration, this year at Banco de Mexico. See below the call for papers.

Thanks Julian (Julián Andrés Salazar)! It is great to see that the 2009 paper with Chad still inspires ideas and research!

Today, in a blogpost of Center for Global Development we summarize our recent research with Dany Bahar 🌎 and Rebecca Brough supported by UC Davis Global Migration Center, on the effectiveness of policies for the integration of refugees.

cgdev.org/blog/identifyi…

Thanks to UC Davis Letters and Science for recognizing the research by UC Davis Economists cited in the Economic Report of the President, 2024.

lettersandsciencemag.ucdavis.edu/news-noteworth…

In a new working paper with Dany Bahar and Rebecca Brough we review our knowledge on the effectiveness of policies for the economic success of refugees in the world .
nber.org/papers/w32266

The UC Davis Economics team continues to make an impact at the highest level of government! Several faculty members were featured in the recently released 2024 Economic Report of the President, including Giovanni Peri, Erich Muehlegger and Jim Bushnell.
whitehouse.gov/cea/written-ma…

Our papers are especially discussed at page 131-133 on the potential benefit of that immigration may bring to the aging US economy.

ERP-2024.pdf (whitehouse.gov)

Very excited that the new Economic Report of the President 2024, President Biden, released today cites our papers (in Chapter 3 and 4) discussing the role of immigration in boosting US employment and productivity.

The 2024 Economic Report of the President | CEA | The White House

It has been a great pleasure to teach Economics to the EMBA students at UCLA Anderson School of Management this quarter. Here is the Blended EBMA class of 2025, at the end of our last lecture, Saturday March 2, 2024.

I am very happy to announce the call for applications for the Summer School 2024 in Economics of Migration organized by the @UCD_globalMC and AlianzaMX. It will be on September 9-12, in Mexico City.

I have reposted the announcements from UC Davis Economics about the job market candidates 2023-24 for whom I am main advisor. They are Alaa Abdelfattah, Roozbeh Moghadam, Jay Jeong and Reem Zaiour. Pease check them out if you are hiring an assistant professor.

Deokjae Jeong
Field: Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics
Job Market Paper: 'Automation, Human Task Innovation, and Labor Share: Unveiling the Role of Elasticity of Substitution'
Website: jayjeo.com

Roozbeh F. Moghadam
Field: Labor, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: 'Spillover Effect of Mass layoffs on Neighboring Firms'
Website: roozbehfmoghadam.com

Alaa Abdelfattah
Field: Labor, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: 'The Effect of Large Firm Entry on Local Skill Demand and Wage Distribution'
Website: alaa-abdelfattah.com

Reem Zaiour
Field: Labor, Public Economics
Job Market Paper: 'Violence in Mexico, Return Intentions, and the Integration of Mexican Migrants in the US'
Website: reemzaiour.com

With K. Shih, C. Sparber, A. Mayda and F. Ortega we show, using difference-in-differences analysis, that the shortage\lottery allocation of H1B visas after 2014 negatively affected the growth of companies that used them. Read the article at Cornell ILR School
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Thanks to all PHD students too. They were a great Group! and thanks to Reem Zaiour for all her work and dedication to the UC Davis Global Migration Center .