Giovanni Peri received his degree in Economics from UC Berkeley
in 1998. His research focuses on the determinants of
international migrations and their impact on labor markets,
productivity, and investments.
Peri is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of
Economic Research, a CESifo Research Fellow, a CReAM External
Fellow and member of the editorial board in the Journal of Urban
Economics, Journal of Population Economics and Regional Science
and Urban Economics. Prior to coming to UC Davis, he visited the
European University Institute as the Jean Monnet Fellow in
2000-01 and taught at UCLA Economics Department as a Global
Fellow in 2004-05. During the academic year 2010-11, he was
a visiting research professor in Bocconi University, Milano.
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STOKE-ON-TRENT in northern England is home to the world’s
second-oldest professional football club, Stoke City FC. Founded
in 1863, it enjoyed its heyday in the mid-1970s, when the club
came close to winning the top division. The playing style was
described by its manager, Tony Waddington, as “the working man’s
ballet”. These days the flair is often provided by players from
far afield. More than half the first-team squad comes from
outside Britain, mostly from other parts of Europe. But that is
about as far as Europhilia in Stoke goes. In June’s referendum on
Britain’s European Union membership, the city voted strongly for
Brexit.
Last year marked the greatest improvement in the typical
American family’s finances on record, according to a
new annual report from the Census Bureau, especially for the
working poor.
If US presidential candidate Donald Trump wants an immigration
system that works for Americans, he might want to consider one
with far fewer restrictions than he’s proposing.
Immigrants don’t cause high unemployment. In fact, a century
of data suggests Trump has both his chronology and his causation
reversed—it shows that a thriving US job market causes
immigration to rise.
This presentation features UC Davis economist Giovanni Peri
discussing why immigrants from Mexico and Central America are
more reliant on wages and less reliant on public safety net
programs, yet are still much more likely to be poor than those
born in the US.
nald Trump’s economic message is loud and clear: Misguided
Washington policymakers have allowed foreign countries to steal
American jobs, and uncontrolled immigration is driving wages
down.
Capping the number of visas issued to foreign-born tech workers
restricts the number of U.S-born workers that firms could hire -
and the Bay Area is feeling the brunt of that impact, according
to a new study.
“As the company becomes more productive because of the
contributions of these (foreign-born) people and grows, then it
will demand more workers – workers who are there (in the U.S.)
will participate in the growth of the company,” Peri said
Thursday.
These three projects won more than $1.3 million in the funding
this past June to support interdisciplinary research projects led
by Center for Poverty Research director Ann Huff Stevens, deputy
director Marianne Page, and faculty affiliate Giovanni Peri.
Those who come to the United States looking for work compete with
some groups of native-born workers but complement others. Since
wages and the local poverty rate play a part in how many arrive,
it is a challenge to quantify the effect they in turn have on
both, and whether they push native workers below the poverty
line.
Research Affiliate Giovanni Peri has proposed a new immigration
permit system that would replace the current waiting list and
lottery with a work permit auction. The new approach is based on
Peri’s economic research that found that immigration often helps
native-born workers in the U.S. by raising overall productivity.
The effects of immigration on low-skilled native workers in the
U.S. is both an active area of research among academics and a
critical component of policy discussions of the costs and
benefits of immigration policies. In a new study, Research
Affiliate Giovanni Peri quantifies the effects of immigration on
wages and poverty rates of native workers in the U.S. over the
past two decades.
