Gordon Hanson
Director
of the Center on Pacific Economies and
Professor
of Economics at UC
will present (To be announced)
S107 South Kedzie
Hall
January 14, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Sponsored by the MSU Department of
Economics
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Hanson is the director of the Center on Pacific Economies and is a professor of
economics at UC San Diego, where he holds faculty positions in the School of
International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics.
Hanson is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and
co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics. He is also a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior research fellow at the Bureau
for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. Prior to joining UCSD in
2001, he was on the economics faculty at the
Professor Hanson has published extensively in the top academic journals of the
economics discipline. His current research examines the international migration
of skilled labor, the economics of illegal immigration, the relationship between
business cycles and global outsourcing, and international trade in motion
pictures. In recent work, he has studied the impact of trade and immigration on
wages, the origins of political opposition to immigration, and the implications
of