Professor @Wharton. Author of The Truth About Immigration. I study the movement of people, ideas, and firms. Associate Editor - Strategic Management Journal.
Philadelphia, PA
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*** EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE MY BOOK ***
The go-to book on immigration: fact-based, comprehensive, & nonpartisan. Learn more & preorder: zekehernandez.net/
See below for praise from David Card @AdamMGrant Guido Imbens @Richard_Florida @LuisvonAhn & Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
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The numbers are unbelievable even when you already know them. Without immigration, the US would be a technologically mediocre country.
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I got #tenure @Wharton! I know lots of people are getting bad news about their jobs right now. Without being blind to that, I'm (1) thankful and (2) amazed this could happen to someone like me. I wrote this to publicly celebrate & thank others:
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🧵on a crucial & 🤯 study. Immigrants represent 16% of US inventors but account for 36% of patents. 23% is a direct contribution as authors. 13% indirect by making *native* inventors more productive. Let’s break the direct & indirect effect down:
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Tenure committee: We take a holistic approach to evaluating faculty. We consider publication counts (pink), quality (blue), impact (yellow), teaching (orange), service (green), etc.
Reality: 👇
Your Animal Welfare Science
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I see a lot of #AcademicTwitter posts about working insane hours & having no personal life. I wanna state that it's possible to have a fulfilling & successful academic career while working reasonable hours & enjoying personal/family life! Let's model this more often! A mini 🧵
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Do yourself a favor and read this article on skilled immigrants and firms by my superstar colleague @BrittaGlennon. It's a masterful summary of why firms are crucial to understanding how immigration affects our economic prosperity.
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How did the US #dairy industry develop? Because of Danish #immigrants in the late 19th century. Places with more #Danish newcomers specialized in dairy farming and used more modern techniques. Super cool study showing the crucial role of migration in #knowledge transfer.
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I'm excited to begin serving as an Associate Editor at @SMJ_Jour! It's an honor to play a role in evaluating & accepting cutting edge research. I look forward to learning from and shaping the direction of new ideas in the field of strategic management.
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Does #immigration make #inventors more productive? Or do more #productive inventors emigrate?
The answer is both, but 85% of the effect is because migrating *makes* inventors more productive.
Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not!
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I wrote this article to promote #WorkLifeBalance in #Academia & offer tips to maximize #insight, not time. Let's stop the false notion that success is incompatible with a rich personal life. Thanks to @HarvardBizEdu & @thewritingeye! hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-m…
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I've been playing around with @ConnectedPapers. Input a paper and it generates a graph of dozens of related papers based on topical similarity. A real game changer for discovering related works, literature reviews, & making connections across fields. Great tool!
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The stories we tell really matter. Exposure to narratives of #successful #immigrants through the #media improves attitudes towards immigration. Nice paper using the case of the Turkish-German inventors of the BioNTech-Pfizer covid vaccine. Full paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Hey #strategytwitter: If you could assign only one reading to undergrads explaining what strategy is, what would it be? Thanks and please RT!
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Yes!
Plus, mass immigration often benefits small towns by spurring job-creating investment (in the form of FDI) by firms from the home country/region of the immigrant group. This takes a few years, but once it starts it lasts for a long time.
Mass low-skilled immigration is really the only thing we know of that can save dying, declining small towns in the American heartland.
noahpinion.blog/p/how-will-y…
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1/4 New paper! The more #VC firms invest #startups led by #immigrant entrepreneurs, the more they later #invest in startups from the entrepreneurs' home country. Evidence from U.S. VC's investing in India. With @Sarathbc papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Saddened by the passing of @BarsadeSigal. She was always a kind and supportive colleague. And my neighbor for 4 years, who loved my kids. Her early work on escalation of commitment influenced my decision to get a PhD (even though I'm not an OB scholar). You'll be missed, Sigal!
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Many good points here. Americans are always scared of the recent wave of newcomers, but they always integrate successfully—no matter where they come from.
In every way that I can see, Hispanic Americans seem to be following the same path toward integration into American society and culture that the Irish followed over a century earlier:
noahpinion.blog/p/hispanics-…
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Announcing the 2024 #Migration & #Organizations Conference!
1. Send us your work: forms.gle/9CtSBZXhib2KVcb89
2. Help spread the word!
3. Encourage #PhD students to apply for the #consortium: forms.gle/jkd1523B3t4spcx68
@dansalright @prithwic @BrittaGlennon @fry_cv @Astrid_Marinoni
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Super interesting! Unexpected #interruptions spur #creativity if they’re followed by idle time. Not if they are expected or not followed by idle time. @OrganizationSci
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Important new paper by Alessandro Caiumi & @giov_peri
During 2000-2019, #immigrants in the US had a positive & significant effect (+1.7 to +2.6) on the #wages of less educated native workers & a positive effect on #employment
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Woke up to an email accepting a paper! “Synergy in Mergers and Acquisitions: Typology, Lifecycles, and Value” 2+ years under review, 4 big revisions. Very happy! Will post thread on the paper soon. For now, 👇
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Why do we keep rolling the dice on which firms get talented people? Do we really want to randomly decide who gets to #innovate and #grow their business? And how much value do we destroy by keeping talent out?
Just to cite one example:
USCIS has received enough electronic registrations for unique beneficiaries during the initial registration period to reach the FY 25 H-1B cap. We have notified those who were randomly selected. For more information, visit: uscis.gov/newsroom/alerts/no…
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***THREAD ON NEW PAPER coauthored with @danybahar & @NatalieACarlson***
How does hiring immigrants at HQ affect the #product #strategy of multinationals (MNCs) in the immigrants’ home country?
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🧵on return migration
Most people don't realize that a very high % of #immigrants *voluntarily* return home. This new paper shows a return rate of 40% for those who arrived to the US between 2005-2007, driven by low earnings in America.
jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl…
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Thanks for an amazing concert tonight @Imaginedragons! Worth the drive with my kids to Pittsburgh.
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I just told my only daughter (7 years old) that @KamalaHarris will be the first woman the be VP. She told me she wants to be VP one day too. Thank you senator Harris and congratulations!
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RT & Submit to the 2021 Migration & Organizations conference (virtual) by April 10! The incomparable @m_clem as keynote speaker! Learn from leading scholars on a critical topic. @AOM_STR @AOM_TIM @AOM_OMT @ENT_Div_AoM @Strategic_Mgmt
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#Writing is about momentum (for me). If I'm stuck, I start writing the easy & mechanical parts of a paper (variables, results, table descriptions). That gets me going. And when the wheels are rolling, I can move on to harder & more creative parts (introduction, arguments, etc.)
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Exactly 10 years ago I defended my dissertation! Next to me is my wife (expecting). Days later I was hooded by @aks_zaheer, my co-advisor along with Myles Shaver. I've had a beautiful career since. @CarlsonNews & @UMNews changed my life! #Thankful #PhD #Graduation
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The migration & organizations conference is off to the races! Follow this thread as I tweet about the super cool work being presented over the next 2 days.
Here’s the full program: esg.wharton.upenn.edu/events…
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Do yourself another favor and read this paper too! The contributions of #immigrants to #innovation is disproportionately large. @leflix311 & @emiguelez have been studying this for years. Another must-read for anyone who wants to live in a prosperous society.
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Interesting work on how social #network structure affects #migration decisions.
It’s common to think that the decision to migrate is primarily an economic one. But it’s not. It’s fundamentally social.
``How do social networks influence the decision to migrate? @jblumenstock, Chi, and Tan analyze a nation’s mobile phone logs, and find that dense networks matter more than extensive networks.''
restud.com/migration-and-the…
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I'm so thankful for the chance to vote! I wasn't able to until age 32 because I didn't have citizenship. For years I felt the frustration of not being able to express my political opinions, which gives me special appreciation for the right to do so now.
I love this country that's given me so much, and I believe in the enterprise of democracy.
If you have the privilege, please get out there and vote today. Do it for yourself, for your country, and for all those who wish they could but cannot.
#vote #electionday2024 #ElectionDay
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I got this message from a former student yesterday. It moved me deeply. I don’t share it to brag, although I understand it may come across that way. I do it because, as an author, it’s hard to know if anyone is paying attention. But this is exactly why I wrote The Truth About Immigration. I’m so thankful 🙏
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Immigrants directly invent more than their expected share because they:
1. Are more productive over their career (graph 1)
2. Patent in more novel fields
3. Are more likely to move into highly productive tech hubs
4. Bring scientific knowledge from foreign countries (graph 2)
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You wouldn’t think of someone like Elon Musk as an illegal immigrant, would you?
Most people will react to this story by attacking Musk’s hypocrisy or by defending his case as “different” from the “typical” undocumented immigrant. (And he has, indeed, made many false claims about immigrants.)
But the real story here is that the US immigration system is to blame for a ton of unauthorized immigration cases just like Musk’s—to OUR detriment.
Lots of people become “illegal” because our laws don’t have a legal category in which to put them—even when they are creating a lot of value for America by being in the country. That’s true for entrepreneurs like Musk, but also for countless workers in farms, factories, and construction sites. Not to mention family members and good human beings.
Putting politics aside, what would we have gained from deporting Elon Musk 25 years ago? And what do we gain by kicking out people doing essential work for whom there literally is no line to get into and become legalized?
My hope is that Musk’s high profile case of undocumented migration prompts us to get past the dumb politics and take a hard look at our ridiculous immigration laws.
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#Immigrants keep "disadvantaged" parts of the US going. Example: foreign-born #doctors serve in places with physician shortages. That doesn't crowd out native physicians. The evidence of net positives from immigration keeps piling on...
nber.org/papers/w32005
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Excited to share my new book "The Truth About Immigration" - a nonpartisan, fact-based exploration of the positive impact immigrants have on society. Join me in this important conversation. #Immigration #NewBook
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Please RT & spread the word! We're delighted to announce a special issue on #Migration & #Organizations in @OrganizationSci, one of the "top 5" management journals. Click to see the call for papers & details. Submissions due December 31, 2021. Exciting!
pubsonline.informs.org/page/…
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👇👇👇Save the date, send us your best work, & help us spread the word!
Apply here: forms.gle/4JyTonNHoUYKL5mh6
We've added a PhD student consortium! Apply here: forms.gle/VgXnkRMTGQtvntyPA
@prithwic @dansalright
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Updated estimates of #immigrant #entrepreneurship in the US by @william_r_kerr & coauthors. Tons of powerful insights. Bottom line: "Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship"
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Conditional accept! Best way to enter the weekend! It’s a paper I’m super proud of with a coauthor team I love. That’s all for now. More details later! Hint in the gif below… #research #acceptance
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I’ve never used this platform to discuss my religious views. Today I’ll make an exception. Christ taught “love one another” and “blessed are the peacemakers”. I try to live by those words. Yesterday’s “Bible photo op” was cynical and antithetical to everything Jesus said and did.
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I generally agree. But what @elonmusk and many who complain about illegal immigration don’t get (or refuse to accept) is that increasing legal pathways is the best and only solution to decrease illegal pathways. They are substitutes, not complements!
piie.com/publications/workin…
The legal immigration process in America needs to be greatly streamlined and expanded, while illegal should be shut down.
If someone is talented, hard-working and honest, they are an asset to the country.
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Why train so much foreign talent and then throw it out? It’s economic suicide, especially when foreign talent complements native talent. Also fascinating that WSJ explicitly calls out the “cultural reasons” (= xenophobia) of restrictionists in DHS. lnkd.in/eePVY_m
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Someone on this platform is accusing me of lying because one line of my book contains a mistake about temporary work visas (like the H-1B).
So let me set the record straight in the spirit of protecting my reputation & the bigger message of the book.
Here goes a🧵
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All 3 of today’s #NobelPrize winners in physics are #immigrants. So is Katalin Kariko, who won it in medicine yesterday. Par for the course. But someone out there is probably whining that they took a job from a native, or that they caused brain drain…
forbes.com/sites/stuartander…
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1/6 Just accepted by @OrganizationSci: "Immigrants and Foreign Firm Performance" (with Elena Kulchina). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Do #immigrants help co-national firms (from their home countries) perform better in foreign countries?
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It's a privilege to teach @Wharton! Really thankful to the students and colleagues who nominated me for this. And great to share the recognition with colleagues I greatly respect: Emilie Feldman, @AndyWuAndyWu, @henningpiezunka, Olga Hawn, etc. #MBA
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Please submit and spread the word: @Wharton Conference on #Migration and #Organizations. May 28-29, 2020. Keynotes by Elora Mukherjee @ColumbiaLaw and Fabian Waldinger from LMU. @AOMConnect @Strategic_Mgmt @AOM_STR @AOM_TIM @AOM_OMT @ENT_Div_AoM @AOM_OB
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Reviewer 1 ✅
Reviewer 2... always reviewer 2!
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Short 🧵 on a really cool paper by @JKleinhempel & coauthors! The fact that immigrants have much higher rates of entrepreneurship that natives is one of the most strongly establish results I know of. But it's been hard to know why.
#immigration #entrepreneurship #culture
Does national culture influence entrepreneurship?
Excited to see our paper –with Mariko J. Klasing and Sjoerd Beugelsdijk– now published in the September-October Issue (34:5) of @OrganizationSci :
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/f…
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Really interesting, important, and well-executed paper by @ChloeNEast and coauthors. Deportations decreased employment for both immigrants and non-immigrants remaining in the US. More evidence in favor of the job-creating effects of #immigration
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
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So honored, humbled, thankful to receive the Emerging Scholar Award from @Strategic_Mgmt. I have amazing mentors, coauthors, and colleagues. Thank you!! This is a challenge to live up to an ideal of relevant and rigorous scholarship. strategicmanagement.net/awar…
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As a longtime listener of @Freakonomics, I never thought I’d get one of these. Very grateful for the opportunity!
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This is so extremely misunderstood by the average American. One of the main causes of undocumented immigration is the mismatch between the US economy’s need for workers & the types of visas our legal system does NOT provide.
Learn more here: zekehernandez.net/resource/b…
There are no work visas for plumbers
There are no work visas for electricians
There are no work visas for carpenters
There are no work visas for ironworkers
There are no work visas for roofers
There are no work visas for glaziers
It would take DECADES to replace the lost skills.
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1/7 RECENTLY ACCEPTED PAPER: "#Corporate #Strategy and #Network Change" (with Anoop Menon), forthcoming in Academy of Management Review. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
@AOMConnect @AOM_STR @Strategic_Mgmt @AOM_OMT
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When everyone’s paper except yours gets into the conference. #AcademicTwitter nitter.app/_figensezgin/status/15…
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Today is the day! My book is officially available! 🎉 I'm so thrilled to finally share it with you. To celebrate, join me tomorrow for a webinar where we'll chat about all things immigration (zekehernandez.net/webinar). Hope to see you there! 📚
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Grad student’s first p = 0.06 nitter.app/Thebestvideos_/status/…
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More evidence linking migration to cross-border capital investment. This is one of the great untold stories about #immigration and the #economy!
link.springer.com/article/10…
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Grateful to the Economist for featuring my book, The Truth About Immigration, in their cover story this week. Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not! How can we do better to attract the immigrants who will build our future? economist.com/briefing/2024/… #immigration #talent #skill
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Hugely important paper! Lifting restrictions on foreign workers improved the performance of firms in Switzerland & improved the wages of native skilled workers. I love the focus on firm performance We need more work linking #migration to #organizations.
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/…
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Call for papers! The Migration & Organizations Conference has become an incredible gathering of rigorous and friendly scholars studying one of the most important issues of our time. Send us your best work, and see you in New York!
Submit a paper or express your interest in attending here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Apply to the doctoral consortium here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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Unboxing “The Truth About Immigration" was a surreal feeling! 🎉 After years of hard work, I can finally hold this book in my hands. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I learned while writing it! 📖✨#BookLaunch #NewBook #immigration
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This interview with @leah_boustan brings up three principles of good research: 1) the question comes first (before identification), 2) explore & arbitrage in areas outside your core discipline, 3) toggle b/w data and question. I talk about this with PhD students all the time.
.@leah_boustan talks about the challenges of asking the right research questions to the economics students @GC_CUNY.
This is an interview of interest to all early career researchers.
Read it!
wp.me/p1Ydsu-2cD
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This is why I wrote my latest book on immigration and why successful societies welcome newcomers. Join me in a constructive dialogue on this massive topic. #Immigration #Prosperity #EconomicGrowth #NewBook
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Thanks @PennGazette for making my cover boy dreams come true! It’s an honor to be in a magazine started by Ben Franklin. The article is quite personal, explaining how my story weaves into my research & recent book. Thanks, Trey Popp for the great writing. thepenngazette.com/the-newco…
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The new & streamlined process to get work expenses reimbursed by the university #AcademicTwitter
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1/5 #H1B approvals dropped sharply last year, keep falling this year bayareane.ws/2K2WJj9 via @mercnews. The consequences of this are, on net, not good for the US economy or US workers. The empirical evidence is pretty compelling. Just a few examples:
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As of today, my book is Amazon’s top new release in its category in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook! Many thanks to each of you for your overwhelming support. I don’t take it for granted!
(This could change any minute, so the brag is just temporary)
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Coauthors deciding who has to write the discussion section nitter.app/FigenSports/status/134…
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Send us your paper! The 2022 #Migration & #Organizations Conference. All-star keynote speaker lineup: @leah_boustan & Ran Abramitzy, authors of #StreetsOfGold (get a free copy!) & Irfhan Rawji, founder of @MobSquadCanada. @prithwic @dansalright
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Warriors on NBCS
I've started a newsletter called Zekrets, with evidence-based ideas on global economic issues -- and a dollop of life wisdom. Learn more and sign up here!
zekrets.substack.com/p/evide…
Curious? Read the first edition here: zekrets.substack.com/p/zekre…
Please RT and share widely!
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Take the day off. The scarce resource in academia is insight, not time. If you work when exhausted, you’ll be less insightful.
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I reviewed 6 papers this week (yes, I fell behind!). I don't want to evaluate someone else's work for a while now... 🥴
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🎉 Exciting news today! "The Truth About Immigration" is the #1 New Release in Social Public Policy on Amazon! Thank you all for your amazing support. What are your thoughts on how immigration is impacting our communities? Drop your views below! 👇 #ImmigrationMatters #BookLaunch
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Thread on how we collectively frame #immigrants as economic actors. Main point: they are NOT substitutes for native workers, and they are not *just* labor/workers. Now for the longer explanation...
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I’m gonna maintain this as a permanent thread documenting instances “go back to your country” #discrimination. It’s one of the worst things #immigrants and their descendants can be told. It’s also more common than we imagine. We’re better than this!
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My father took this picture of Dordogne River from Domme. Just sharing it because it’s stunning!
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Amazing. @BYUMarriott sends nearly 2.5 times more students to #Business #PhD programs than the No. 2 school (@Penn). I’m a product of that program & very grateful for it.
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Universities = invention. They foster a lot of patents, most of them NOT by faculty or students. Nice test comparing locations that were runner-ups to get a college vs. those that got the college.
Full text here: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/…
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Viewing #immigrants as *only* #labor (like this policy) is self-defeating. All of us (not just immigrants) are also consumers, investors, taxpayers, ideas generators, etc in the economy. If you get that, you need not fear new people. Quite the opposite! bbc.com/news/uk-politics-515…
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Really important point by @mattyglesias. Many of the gains from immigration are unpredictable. We just don’t know which individual or national group will bring a new skill, product, investment, or innovation. A good system shouldn’t over-target certain people or skills.
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Thankful for all the invisible people keeping us safe: doctors, nurses, shelf stockers, parents, janitors, etc.
“Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.” (JRR Tolkien)
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🧵The #demand & #consumption effects of #immigration are severely underrated!
This cool paper by @b_bonadio shows how important they are. By reducing the costs of trade, immigrants increase demand for goods, which also increases wages. #economy #growth
doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_01380
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Hey #immigration experts, I need HELP: Can someone point me to the best research on the #political #assimilation of #immigrants? I'm especially interested in whether immigrants adopt similar or different political views than those in the communities they settle in.
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For me, the most useful principle in finding work-life balance is this:
The scarce resource in research jobs isn't time. It's insight!
Therefore, we must seek to maximize the inputs that enhance our insight instead of maximizing time, which is not the most important input.
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Wow! This is so kind. I had no idea until just now. #humbled
“My favorite MBA professor was Professor Zeke Hernandez, who taught global strategy. ... What I appreciated most about Zeke was his kind heart, strong advocacy, genuine interest in his students as people, and his positive affirmations about work and life."
👏 @ProfZeke
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