Gordon Hanson Authors Study on Mexico's Weak Economic Growth
Regional Migration Study Group Reports Trace Economic Transformation in Mexico, Central America
08/03/2012
The Non-Profit Press
Recent decades have witnessed extraordinary transformation in Central America and Mexico — ushering in economic, political, societal, and even demographic change that holds key implications for the countries themselves, the region, and in some cases the United States.
These sweeping changes are the focus of a pair of new reports prepared for the Regional Migration Study Group, a partnership between MPI and the Latin American Program/Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Study Group is a high-level initiative that in 2013 will propose new regional and collaborative approaches to migration, competitiveness, and human-capital development for the United States, Central America, and Mexico.
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Gordon Hanson is director of the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies and professor of economics at UC San Diego. He specializes in the economics of international trade, international migration, and foreign direct investment. He has published extensively in the top academic journals of the economics discipline, 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 US labor market, and the determinants of comparative advantage.
