Publications

Giovanni Peri and his coauthors Simone Moriconi (U. of Paris) and Riccardo Turati (Autonoma del Bercelona) were recently released a working paper. They show that second generation immigrants in European countries have a tendency to vote for more left-leaning parties, relative to similar natives, after controlling for their characteristics and their country of origin. They then show that this left-bias associates with stronger preferences for government intervention and for internationalism and multiculturalism.

GMC Affiliate, Raquel E. Aldana, made a publication in Cardozo Law Review. This article talks about the United States' borders and its enforcement. Stating that the United States can be more humane and elaborating on two principles; the extent of the border's impact and human trauma, to serve as a guide. 

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A paper by GMC Director Giovanni Peri, GMC Affiliate Giuseppe Ippedico and former affiliates Massimo Anelli and Gaetano Basso is forthcoming in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Using data from Italy, they find that an increase in the emigration rate generates a decrease in firm creation in the local labor market of origin.

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A new publication by GMC affiliate Angel Desai and coauthors was recently published in Emerging Infectious Diseases. They analyzed reports of hepatitis E outbreaks among forcibly displaced populations in sub-Saharan Africa during 2010-2020. They found that transmission was attributed to poor sanitation and overcrowding.

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri with coauthors Martina Viarengo and Taehoon Lee recently published a new article "The Gender Aspect of Migrants’ Assimilation in Europe". The publication details the gendered differences in labor market outcomes for migrants. 

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A working paper by GMC Director Giovanni Peri and coauthors Mette Foged and Janis Kreuder on the integration of refugees by addressing labor market shortages was featured on the NBER homepage. They found that Denmark's recent policy that matched refugees to occupations with local labor shortages led to higher long term employment rates for refugees, suggesting that this policy could decrease the decrease the concern of labor shortages in the long term. 

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An analysis on the economic assimilation of Mexican and Central American Migrants by GMC Director Giovanni Peri and former GMC Graduate Student Affiliate Zach Rutledge was recently published in the IZA Journal of Development and Migration. 

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri and coauthors have recently published a new NBER working paper on the effects of a 2013 Danish policy matching newly arrived refugees to occupations with local labor shortages. 

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ARE alumnus and Montana State University Assistant Professor Diane Charlton, recent Ph.D. graduate and Arizona State University Post-doc Zachariah Rutledge, and Professor J. Edward Taylor published a new chapter in the Handbook of Agricultural Economics titled “Evolving Agricultural Labor Markets.” It examines the changing role of agricultural employment in developing and developed economies across the globe.

Global Migration Center affiliates Philip Martin and Zachariah Rutledge published an article in California Agriculture that examined H-2A visa use and associated labor costs in the United States and California.

The article can be found here.