News Mentions/Interviews

GMC Director Giovanni Peri's research was featured in an article in the Des Moines Register in connection with Iowa's welfare being dependent on immigrants both documented and undocumented. Peri's research has revealed how important and influential immigrants are to the economy, whose contributions aid productivity, sustainability, stability, and growth of the economy. 

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri and affiliate Reem Zaiour's work regarding foreign-born workers in America, whose workforce began to decrease in 2019, was featured in The Economist. This concerns how legal pathways to immigration have bounced back since its decline and the decline of the foreign-born workforce in America is being filled once again by college-educated legal migrants.

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri and his latest working paper regarding the effects of immigration on natives’ wages in the US was featured in an article in The Epoch Times. The article pertains to the political, social, and fiscal outcomes of immigration and the distinction between higher-educated and low-educated immigrants. Peri suggests that more legal entry options should be offered to low-education immigrants which in turn “… would be able much more to track and know what’s going on with them. It would be much more orderly”.

GMC Director Giovanni Peri was featured in an article in The New Yorker discussing how Biden's new immigration policy at the southern border has received backlash from immigrant-rights and civil-rights groups. Peri argues that this policy can help reduce chaos at the border but should be paired with more legal entry options. He highlights that the U.S. economy benefits significantly from immigrants' labor and spending and that more legal channels for immigration are crucial for both economic growth and effective border security.

GMC affiliate Kevin Johnson was featured in an article on 12 News discussing the government's proposal to expedite the rejection of certain asylum claims.

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The L&S Magazine summarizes GMC affiliate Santiago Pérez and co-author's paper regarding the incarceration rates between immigrants and U.S.-born.

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri's research on immigration's impact on workforce diversity and its effects on labor market outcomes was highlighted in The Economist.

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GMC affiliate Santiago Perez and co-author's paper about the historical incarceration rate gap between immigrant and US-born was featured on CNN.

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GMC Director Giovanni Peri's insights were highlighted in an op-ed published by The Washington Post. The article includes a segment from his interview discussing strategies to revitalize struggling areas in the United States.

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Santiago Perez and co-authors paper “Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the US-born, 1850–2020”  was cited in Reuters. 

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GMC director Giovanni Peri and co-authors Kevin Shih, Chad Sparber, and Angie Marek Zeitlin's study on the consequences of H-1B visa denials during the Great Recession was cited in a Forbes article on the positive consequences of immigration in the U.S. economy. 

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The Letter and Science magazine published a story that highlights the president's economic report, citing GMC director Giovanni Peri.

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The recently published 2024 Economic Report of the President, references multiple articles by Giovanni Peri and coauthors. In Chapter 3 titled “Population, Aging, and the Economy”, the report discusses how immigration can enhance employment and productivity in the US, citing studies by Peri and Basso (2022), Peri (2012), Ottaviano and Peri (2012), and Peri and Sparber (2009).

GMC affiliate Santiago Pérez and co-authors paper was featured in The Washington Post. Following the death of a Georgia nursing student, suspecting a Venezuelan migrant to have killed her, the debate about incarceration rates and illegal immigration has sparked deep partisan debates. 

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AP News featured GMC affiliate Santiago Pérez and co-authors paper, following the death of a Georgia nursing student, Trumps' campaign was quick to suspect a Venezuelan migrant to have killed her, the debate about incarceration rates and illegal immigration has sparked deep partisan debates. 

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