Economics of Immigration

Hendrik Van Den Berg is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, and he currently lectures at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from the State University of New York at Albany. He  received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Since 1989, he has taught courses in economic growth and development, macroeconomics, international economics, international finance, and the economics of immigration.Since he began teaching, he has published over 50 professional journal articles on exchange rates, international trade, alternative estimates of economic growth, the relationship between international trade and economic growth, the economics of immigration, and other topics in economic development. Van den Berg has written a variety of economics textbooks including Economic Growth and Development, International Economics, International Trade and Economic Growth (with Joshua Lewer), The Economics of Immigration (with Orn Bodvarsson), International Economics: A Heterodox Approach, International Finance and Open-Economy Macroeconomics, and A Plurasiltic Introduction to Macroeconomics.Örn Bodvarsson had a forty-year career in higher education – twenty-seven years as a full-time Economics professor and thirteen years as an academic administrator. He taught undergraduate and graduate economics full-time at University of Montana, Ball State University, St. Cloud State University, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Western Washington University, and Whitman College. Örn’s area of specialization is labor economics and he has published widely on internal and external migration, discrimination with respect to race, gender, and immigration status, the economics of education, and the economics of uncertainty.Örn began his administrative career in 2011, when he was appointed Founding Dean of the School of Public Affairs at St. Cloud State University. He then served as Dean of the College of Social Sciences & Interdisciplinary Studies at California State University – Sacramento, Dean of the Bill & Vieve Gore School of Business at Westminster University, and Dean of the Atkinson Graduate School of Management at Willamette University.Örn earned Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Economics and Agricultural & Resource Economics, respectively, at Oregon State University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Simon Fraser University. He twice served as Vice President and a Board Member of the Chinese Economist Society, President of the Minnesota Economic Association, and President of the Western Social Science Association. Following his retirement from academe, Örn has been serving as a Fellow at the Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism in St. Paul, Minnesota.

• Introduction to the Economics of Immigration.- The Determinants of International Migration.- Why People Immigrate.- Who Immigrates Theory and Evidence.- The Effects of Immigration on the Destination Economy.- How Immigration Impacts the Destination Economy.