Doctoral Lecture Series with Catalina Amuedo Dorantes (University of California Merced)

This lecture is part of the Doctoral Lecture Series on Cross-Border Labor Mobility 2025-2026

The Doctoral School of Economics, Finance and Management (DSEFM) and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) are happy to invite you to the next lecture of the 2025/2026 edition of our Doctoral Lecture series on Cross-Border Labor Mobility.

The lecture “Immigration Policy and the Immigrant Experience” will be given by Catalina Amuedo Dorantes from the University of California Merced.

A lunch will be served at 12.00 upon invitation only (LISER/UNI participants attending onsite are automatically enrolled).

Abstract:

To be communicated soon

About the speaker:

Dr. Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes is Professor of Economics at University of California, Merced, a Research Fellow at CReAM, FEDEA, GLO and IZA, an Advisory committee member of the Americas Center Advisory Council at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and the Western Representative in the Committee for the Status of Women in the Economics Professions (CSWEP) since 2015.

Her areas of interest include labor economics, international migration and remittances. She has published on contingent work contracts, the informal work sector, international remittances, as well as on immigrant assimilation and the impact of immigration policies on migrants and the communities where they reside. Her work has been funded by the Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), the Hewlett Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, among other agencies.

She was the 2013-2014 Border Fulbright García-Robles Scholar, Department Chair at San Diego State University between 2015 and 2018, President of the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) in 2014, and has held visiting positions at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, the Center for Human Resource at Ohio State University, the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and at the Public Policy Institute of California.

Language: English

This is a free lecture. Registration is mandatory.

This is a hybrid event, a Webex link will be shared one week prior to the event.

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