Giovanni Peri
Department: Department of Economics
Colleges / Universities: University of California, Davis
Contact
1153 SSH
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
Email: gperi@ucdavis.edu
Website: UC Davis faculty profile
Personal Website: Giovanni Peri
Giovanni Peri is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis. Additionally, he is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the founding director of the UC Davis Global Migration Center, an interdisciplinary research group focusing on international migrations. His research focuses on the impact of international migrations on labor markets and productivity of the receiving countries and on the determinants of international migrations. He has expertise in labor economics, urban economics, and the economics of international migrations.
Professor Peri is Editor of the “Journal of the European Economic Association” and in the Editorial Board of several Academic Journals in Economics. He has published in several academic journals including, among many others, the American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies, The Review of Economics and Statistics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of European Economic Association, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Labor Economics.
Professor Peri has received several grants for the study of international migrations from foundations and international organizations, including the National Science Foundation, the Russel Sage Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the World Bank, and the Volkswagen Foundation.
Degrees
B.S. Economics and Social Sciences, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, 1992
Doctoral Degree Economics, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, 1997
Ph.D. Economics, University of California, Berkeley, 1998
Recent Academic Article Summaries
The Effect of the H-1B Quota on the Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor
In 2004, the quota for H-1B visas for foreign workers was reduced. The lower quota reduced firms’ employment of new H-1B workers. Firms’ employment of similar native-born workers did not increase.
Reduction of H-1B quotas may induce American firms to outsource skilled work abroad.
The Effect of Immigration on Productivity: Evidence from U.S. States
U.S. states receiving large immigration flows had stronger investment and growth than those that had small inflows.
Attracting immigrants, especially highly educated ones, is a strategy to increase employment, investment and productivity in a local economy.
The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries
Calculates the effects of immigration and emigration on wages and employment of native workers in OECD countries.
Countries with more open immigration policies attract highly educated immigrants and receive a boost to average wage and employment of their citizens, especially the less educated ones.
Rethinking the Effect of Immigration on Wages
Calculates the effects of immigration from 1960-2006 on the wages of native U.S. workers of various skill levels.
Immigrants at the national level had very small effects on native wages. Immigration policies are likely to have only very small effects on native wage inequality.
Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe
Analyzes how immigration affected employment, job creation and native occupations in Europe from 1998-2006.
More flexible labor laws are associated to more job creation and more intense upgrading of jobs by natives in response to immigrants.
Blog Posts
Quotes in the News
Peri, G. (2022, September 1). Inquirer.“From the middle of 2019 until the end of 2021, there has been essentially zero net immigration to the U.S. Although in late 2021 and early 2022 these numbers started growing again, the fact that the inflow of immigrants stopped made the country lose more than 1.7 million (immigrants).”
Giovanni Peri
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
Peri, G. (2022, April 21). The Christian Science Monitor.“They may have their reasons for letting highly skilled workers go. Such workers are more entrepreneurial and willing to push for political change.”
Giovanni Peri
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
Peri, G. (2022, March 16). The New York Times.“It is uncertainty that now dominates the economic calculation.”
Giovanni Peri
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
Peri, G. (2021, June 22). The Seattle Times."Creating a path to citizenship for all undocumented people — as proposed in President Joe Biden’s U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 — would have the biggest impact, boosting gross domestic product by $1.7 trillion. This reform could fully fund the infrastructure bill.”
Giovanni Peri
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
Peri, G. (2021, January 27). The New York Times.Opening a pathway to citizenship for nearly 11 million people, seven to eight million of whom participate in the labor force, is tantamount to “an economic stimulus.”
Giovanni Peri
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis
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