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- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
better informed politically and had more political discussions with their neighbors during the electoral campaign, making them more civically engaged overall. Increasing the immigrant vote In the second study Pons performed, particularly... View Details
- Web
Lavinia Teodorescu | MBA
recreate this human bond in the online world?" — Francois-Henri Pinault, Kering Tech areas of interest: Fashion Tech, AI/ML, 3D Virtual Worlds & the Metaverse Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: Since the beginning of the pandemic, I... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
The contributions made by immigrant scientists and engineers for developing new U.S. technologies have been formidable—but not always well described. What we do know: While the foreign-born account for just over 10 percent of the U.S.... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
in waves. We are just seeing the aftereffects of one peak . . . this wave will be different from the one before . . . natural resources will play a strong role, and immigration will be an issue." The next step of globalization,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Feb 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the US
- 2024
- Article
Thy Neighbor's Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization
By: Matt Buehler, Kristin Fabbe and Eleni Kyrkopoulou
To stop refugees and migrants, states have enlisted neighboring third countries to act as buffers, thereby outsourcing border security. With many sub-Saharan migrants transiting North Africa, these regimes there have increasingly served as the EU’s gendarme. Existing... View Details
Keywords: Border Externalization; Border Security; Migration; Sub-Saharan African Migrants; Immigration; National Security; North Africa; Morocco
Buehler, Matt, Kristin Fabbe, and Eleni Kyrkopoulou. "Thy Neighbor's Gendarme? How Citizens of Buffer States in North Africa View EU Border Security Externalization." Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies 22, no. 2 (2024): 371–385.
- 2024
- White Paper
Modernizing the U.S. Exchange Visitor Skills List
By: William R. Kerr and Michael C. Clemens
Kerr, William R., and Michael C. Clemens. "Modernizing the U.S. Exchange Visitor Skills List." Peterson Institute for International Economics Policy Brief, 24-8, Peterson Institute for International Economics, September 2024.
- 29 Sep 2020
- News
A Righteous Path
as we can, but to completely eliminate the problem in our area.” He estimates that for every child Safe Passage is currently assisting, there are three others in the New York area who don’t have legal representation in immigration court.... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Safe, Secure, and Prosperous
Maria Fernandez (AMP 187, 2014) is the deputy secretary of the Intelligence and Capability Group for the Australia Department of Immigration and Border Protection. In this interview, she describes how her department’s intelligence... View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
and studied the performance of the algorithms with Kirk Bansak, an assistant professor at the University of California at Berkeley. The work builds from their partnership with the Immigration Policy Lab at Stanford University, which uses... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Library Dues
Schwarzman is donating $100 million to the institution, the largest gift in its history, the Associated Press reported (March 12, 2008). Established in 1895, the library is “a passport to the American dream for lower- and middle-income Americans and View Details
Oscar F. Mayer
Mayer, an immigrant from Germany, founded a meat packing business in Chicago. The company grew from 12 employees in 1919 to over 8,000 by 1955, and it had four additional packaging plants in various states. By the end of his tenure, the... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- March 2025
- Article
Global Talent and Economic Success
By: William R. Kerr
Access to top performers sets an upper bound on a country’s aspirations. View Details
Kerr, William R. "Global Talent and Economic Success." Finance & Development 62, no. 1 (March 2025): 30–33.
- Portrait Project
Ben Schumacher
immigrants and their families through our business, and I came to understand that life's true purpose is enabling others. When I was 25, I realized that, in this country, not every man becomes the man he should be. I found that we... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador
By: Nava Ashraf, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martinez A. and Dean Yang
While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are used. This research uses a randomized field experiment to investigate the importance of migrant control over the use of... View Details
Keywords: Migration; Remittances; Intrahousehold Allocation; Savings; Immigration; Diasporas; International Finance; El Salvador
Ashraf, Nava, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martinez A., and Dean Yang. "Savings in Transnational Households: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20024, March 2014. (Review of Economics and Statistics, accepted.)
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Onay Payne
karate-chop someone on the other side of the negotiating table, I’m challenged and I’m fulfilled and I’m growing. Luckily I’m doing what I do at a moment in history where my career advancement hasn’t been limited by the fact that I’m a woman, that I’m black, that I... View Details
- Profile
Paul Scharfman
General Foods, oversees a company that produces 35 varieties of cheeses, providing a welcome taste of home for immigrants from Central and South America, India, and the Middle East. View Details
- Portrait Project
Andrew Velo-Arias
has enabled me to overcome the odds of being the son of immigrants who never attended college, of growing up in a working-class community and attending mediocre public schools. My mom may not have been able to proofread my application... View Details
- Career Coach
Guntas Singh
including behavioral and technical interview preparation, creating a target firms list, and effective networking plans. As an international student in the U.S., he is happy to share his thoughts on immigration concerns and geographical... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring significant economic prosperity to receiving areas. I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne