Gordon H. Hanson

• Director, Center on Pacific Economies, University of California, San Diego
• Professor of Economics, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego
• Co-Editor, Journal of Development Economics
• Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

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Gordon H. Hanson is the Director of the Center on Pacific Economies and Professor of Economics at UCSD, where he holds faculty positions in the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Department of Economics.  Professor Hanson is co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a senior research fellow at the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development.  He obtained his BA in economics from Occidental College in 1986 and his PhD in economics from MIT in 1992.  Prior to joining UCSD in 2001, he was on the economics faculty at the University of Michigan (1998-2001) and at the University of Texas (1992-1998).  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 causes of Mexican migration to the United States, the consequences of immigration on labor-market outcomes in the United States, the relationship between business cycles and global outsourcing, and international trade in motion pictures.  In recent work, he has studied the impact of globalization on wages, the origins of political opposition to immigration, and the implications of China's growth for the export performance of Mexico and other developing countries.  His next book will be Skilled Immigration Today:  Problems, Prospects, and Policies (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), co-edited with Jagdish Bhagwati.

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• The Costs of Immigration, BlogTalkRadio, August 2008. (panel discussion with Mike Farrell and Gordon) 

• The Body Politic:  Immigration 2008, UCSD TV, July 2008.  (panel discussion with Wayne Cornelius and Gordon)

•"Offshoring and Volatility:  Evidence from Mexico’s Maquiladoras,"  American Economic Review, forthcoming. (with Paul Bergin and Robert Feenstra).

•"Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants,"  July 2008. (with Jeff Grogger).

• "The Great Mexican Emigration," July 2008. (with Craig McIntosh)

•"Imperfect Substitution between Immigrants and Natives:  A Reappraisal," March 2008. (with George Borjas and Jeff Grogger).

•"China and the Manufacturing Exports of Other Developing Countries," January 2008. (with Raymond Robertson)