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华盛顿时间：2012年1月31日星期二 上午9点-10：30
北京时间：2012年1月31日星期二 晚上10点-11：30
Agenda
8:45 AM
Registration and Breakfast
9:00 AM
Immigration, Productivity and Competitiveness in American Industry
Presenter:
GORDON HANSON, University of California, San Diego\
Discussant:
BARRY R. CHISWICK, George Washington University
Moderator:
KEVIN A. HASSETT, AEI
10:30 AM
Adjournment
Speaker Biographies:
Barry R. Chiswick has been a professor and chair of the Department of
Economics at George Washington University since January 2011. Previously, he
taught in the Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Chicago (
UIC). He was also founding director of the UIC Center for Economic Education
(2000ǔ2010) and program director for migration studies at IZA - Institute
for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany (2004ǔ2011). From 1973 to 1977 he
was senior staff economist at the Presidentós Council of Economic Advisers.
He is a former chairman of the American Statistical Association Census
Advisory Committee; past president of the European Society for Population
Economics, the Midwest Economics Association and the Illinois Economics
Association; and a consultant to numerous U.S. government agencies, the
World Bank and other international organizations. He is currently associate
editor of the Journal of Population Economics and Research in Economics of
the Household and on the editorial boards of four additional academic
journals. Mr. Chiswick is considered the leader in the field of the
economics of immigration and also has an international reputation for his
research in labor economics, human resources, the economics of minorities
and of religion, and income distribution. He has published 18 books and
monographs and over 170 scholarly journal articles and book chapters, in
addition to other publications. His recent book is "The Economics of
Language," with Paul W. Miller (Routledge, 2007).
Gordon Hanson is director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies
and professor of economics at the University of California San Diego (UCSD),
where he holds faculty positions in the School of International Relations
and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics. He is a research
associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations and a co-editor of the Review of Economics and
Statistics. Before joining UCSD in 2001, he was on the economics faculty at
the University of Michigan (1998ǔ2001) and the University of Texas (1992ǔ
1998). In 2011, Mr. Hanson received the Chancellorós Associates Award for
Excellence in Research in Social Science and the Humanities from UCSD. He
specializes in the economics of international trade, international migration
and foreign direct investment. He has published extensively in the top
academic economics journals, is widely cited for his research by scholars
across the social sciences and is frequently quoted in major media outlets.
His current research examines the international migration of skilled labor,
border enforcement and illegal immigration, the impact of imports from China
on the U.S. labor market, and the determinants of comparative advantage.
His most recent book is "Regulating Low-Skilled Immigration in the United
States" (AEI Press, 2010).
Kevin Hassett is the director of economic policy studies and a senior fellow
at AEI. Before joining AEI, he was a senior economist at the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of
economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia
University, as well as a policy consultant to the Treasury Department during
the George H. W. Bush and Clinton administrations. He served as an economic
adviser to the George W. Bush 2004 presidential campaign, chief economic
adviser to Senator John McCain during the 2000 presidential primaries and
senior economic adviser to the McCain 2008 presidential campaign. Mr.
Hassett also writes a column for National Review. |
