NBER profile: Giovanni Peri.

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Giovanni Peri is a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis and a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on International Trade and Investment. He is also a CESifo Research Professor at the University of Munich and Editor of CESifo Economic Studies.

Peri received his B.S. and Doctoral Degree in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His earlier research focused on human capital, growth, and technological innovation, but more recently he has turned his attention to the impact of international migration on labor markets, housing markets, and the productivity of the receiving countries, and to the determinants of international migration.

Peri's work has been published in several...