2015-2016 Events

ACLEC brings together economists working in labor and related fields from across California. The 10th Annual Conference will be held at UC Davis on September 19 to September 20, 2016.

The 28 EU member countries are expected to receive over 1.5 million migrants in 2015, double 2014 migration levels. Migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, trying to slip onto trucks headed to Britain via the Eurotunnel, and boarding trains for Germany have dominated recent headlines.

This seminar looks at the dynamic relationship between symptoms of social decay and the residential choices of families in a widely-theorized engine of spatial stratification.

This conference examines current issues in agriculture and farm labor. California agriculture and the farm workforce are changing.

In this seminar, two recent publications by Professor Rocha, the first published in Policy Studies Journal, the second published in the Journal of Politics will be discussed.

Meet UC Davis faculty, staff and scholars who are internationally engaged and discover opportunities to connect with colleagues for international teaching, research and public service.

This one-day conference will look at the role of mobility in creativity as an economic driver and creativity as a disruptive force driving both planned and unplanned mobility.

The seminar focuses on the decision calculus of households to invest in education and argue that they may be too poor for members to respond to the incentive structure.

Professor Jones' research examines the nexus between non-Latino perceptions of Latinos and how this relates to policy preferences on the undocumented immigration issue, voting rights and perceptions of discrimination among Latinos in the United States. 

Katherine Eriksson research has focused on the immigrants during what is known as the "age of mass migration" in the US between 1850 and 1930. Her second strand of research concerns the origins of black-white disparities in education, health, and incarceration, looking at the first half of the twentieth century U.S.