Gordon H. Hanson

• Director, Center on Pacific Economies, University of California, San Diego
• Professor of Economics, Graduate 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 Graduate 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 high-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 most recent book is Why Does Immigration Divide America?  Public Finance and Political Opposition to Open Borders (Institute for International Economics, 2005).

 

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

•"Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants," NBER Working Paper No. 13821, February 2008. (with Jeff Grogger).

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

 • "The Great Mexican Emigration," NBER Working Paper No. 13675, June 2007. (with Craig McIntosh)

• "Outsourcing and Volatility," NBER Working Paper No. 13144, June 2007. (with Paul Bergin and Robert Feenstra)