October 6, 2006
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

A conference hosted by

• Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
• Tower Center for Political Studies and the Department of Economics at Southern Methodist University
• Jno E. Owens Foundation

While international migration and trade are often looked at in isolation in terms of their impact on development, this conference examines their individual as well as their joint role for growth and development.

International trade is an obvious factor for income and growth. It can also provide access to technological know-how, giving emerging countries a chance to reduce the development gap at a faster pace.

The impact of large-scale international migration on the welfare of both source and recipient countries is a more recent phenomenon. Recipient countries benefit from the availability of the immigrant workers. Source countries benefit from the workers’ remittances, an increasingly important inflow of foreign exchange in many developing countries.

About the Speakers

Barry R. Chiswick
Head, Department of Economics
University of Illinois at Chicago
In addition to serving as economics department head, Chiswick is a distinguished professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also a research professor in the sociology department and in the Survey Research Laboratory at UIC and is founding director of the UIC Center for Economic Education. Chiswick is the program director for migration studies at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany. He has held permanent and visiting appointments at UCLA, Columbia University, CUNY, Stanford University, Princeton University, Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Tel Aviv University, University of Haifa, and the University of Chicago. He has served as a senior staff economist on the president’s Council of Economic Advisers and is a former chairman of the American Statistical Association Census Advisory Committee. Chiswick is a consultant to numerous U.S. government agencies, the World Bank and other international organizations. He is associate editor of the Journal of Population Economics and Research in Economics of the Household. His latest book is The Economics of Language with Paul W. Miller (in press). Chiswick received his Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Gary P. Freeman
Chair, Department of Government
University of Texas at Austin
Freeman is professor and chair of the government department at the University of Texas, where he specializes in the politics of immigration, comparative social policy and politics in Western democracies. He has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, the Australian National University, the Australian Defence Forces Academy, Monash University and the University of Pennsylvania. Freeman is the author of two books, Immigrant Labor and Racial Conflict in Industrial Societies and Nations of Immigrants: Australia, the United States, and International Migration (edited with James Jupp), and author or co-author of over 50 journal articles and book chapters. His most recent work has appeared in West European Politics, Comparative European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies and International Migration Review. Freeman holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin.

James F. Hollifield
Director, John G. Tower Center for Political Studies
Southern Methodist University
Hollifield is the Arnold Professor of International Political Economy and director of the Tower Center for Political Studies at SMU. He previously held faculty appointments at Auburn, Brandeis and Duke Universities. He was also a research associate at Harvard’s Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. He has worked as a consultant for the U.S. government, the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The author of numerous books and articles, Hollifield just completed his fifth book, Immigration et L'Etat-Nation (Immigration and the Nation-State), which looks at the rapidly evolving relationship between trade, migration and the nation-state. He is the co-editor of Pathways to Democracy, The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions with Calvin Jillson (1999) and Migration Theory, Talking Across Disciplines with Caroline B. Bretell (2000). Hollifield received his Ph.D. from Duke University.

Kent H. Hughes
Program Director
Woodrow Wilson International Center
Hughes is the director of the Program on Science, Technology, America and the Global Economy (STAGE) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Previously, he served as the associate deputy secretary at the Commerce Department, the president of the Council on Competitiveness and the staff attorney for the Urban Law Institute. Hughes also held a number of senior positions with the U.S. Congress, focusing on international economic issues. He is the author of Building the Next American Century: The Past and Future of Economic Competitiveness and Trade, Taxes, and Transnationals: International Economic Decision Making in Congress. Hughes holds a B.A. from Yale University, an LL.B. from Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. in economics from Washington University.

Valerie F. Hunt
Assistant Professor
Southern Methodist University
An assistant professor of political science and an immigration scholar, Hunt studies how divisive issues are addressed in a democratic system. She is an expert on Middle East affairs, U.S. immigration, U.S–Mexico relations, media and politics, and media strategies of political participants within the U.S. policy arena. She is working on a book manuscript with the tentative title Courts, Congress, and the Politics of U.S. Immigration Policy Reform. Hunt, who joined SMU in 2003, has served as a fellow of several national centers, most recently the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. She holds a B.A. in international studies from Rhodes College, an M.A. in international relations from the University of Southern California and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Washington.

Michael Lusztig
Associate Professor
Southern Methodist University
Lusztig has written numerous academic articles on international trade and Canadian politics. He is also author of Risking Free Trade: The Politics of Trade in Britain, Canada, Mexico and the United States (1996) and The Limits of Protectionism: Building Coalitions for Free Trade (2004). Prior to joining the political science department at SMU in 1997, Lusztig was an assistant professor at the University of Western Ontario. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of British Columbia and received a master’s and Ph.D. from McGill University.

Philip L. Martin
Professor
University of California, Davis
Martin is professor of agricultural and resource economics and chair of the University of California’s 60-member comparative immigration and integration program. He served on the Commission of Agricultural Workers that assessed the effects of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 and is on the editorial boards of International Migration Review and International Migration. He also edits two newsletters, Migration News and Rural Migration News. Martin has testified before Congress and state and local agencies on various issues, including farm labor and rural poverty, labor migration and population issues, and immigration issues. Martin holds a B.A. and M.A. in economics, an M.S. in agricultural economics and a Ph.D. in economics and agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Pia M. Orrenius
Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Orrenius’ research focuses on Mexico–U.S. migration, illegal immigration and U.S. immigration policy. As a labor economist at the Dallas Fed, she also analyzes the regional economy, with special focus on labor markets and the border region. Orrenius spent the 2004–2005 academic year as senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C., where she advised the Bush administration on immigration, health and labor issues. She holds B.A. degrees in economics and Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Thomas Osang
Associate Professor
Southern Methodist University
An associate professor of economics at Southern Methodist University, Osang researches the international economy and growth and development. He has been a visiting scholar at multiple institutions, including the Center for European Economic Research and Tilburg University in the Netherlands. His work has appeared in numerous publications, including American Economic Review, the Review of International Economics and the Journal of Development Economics. Osang holds a B.A. and M.A. in economics from the University of Dortmund in Germany and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego.

Gustav Ranis
Professor
Yale University
Ranis is the Frank Altschul Professor Emeritus of International Economics at Yale. Since joining Yale in 1960, Ranis has also served as director of the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the Economic Growth Center and the Yale–Pakistan Project. His teaching centers around development economics, interdependence between rich and poor countries, and political economy. He is the author of Development of the Labor Surplus Economy and Growth and Development from an Evolutionary Perspective. Ranis has published 13 books and numerous articles. He is an editorial board member of the Journal of International Development, Journal of Asian Economics, Oxford Development Studies and Central Asian Journal. He served as assistant administrator for Programs and Policy in Aid/Department of State. Ranis is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Council of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) and American Council for the United Nations University. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University and a doctoral degree from Yale University.

Dilip Ratha
Senior Economist
World Bank
Ratha is an internationally recognized expert on remittances and migration. He has authored numerous articles on international finance topics such as determinants of World Bank lending, relationships between official and private capital flows, short-term debt and financial crisis. Prior to joining the World Bank, Ratha worked as a regional economist for Asian emerging markets at Credit Agricole Indosuez and as an assistant professor at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has a Ph.D. in economics from Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi.

Raymond Robertson
Associate Professor
Macalester College
An associate professor of economics at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., Robertson focuses on the effects of globalization on workers. Previously, Robertson taught at Syracuse University. His current research is supported by the World Bank, the Mellon Foundation and the Inter-American Development Bank. His work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Review of Economics and Statistics, World Economy and the Journal of International Economics. Robertson holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas.

Harvey Rosenblum
Executive Vice President and Director of Research
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Rosenblum is an economic policy advisor to the president of the Dallas Fed and an associate economist for the Federal Open Market Committee. His research interests focus on monetary policy, inflation and the growing impact of globalization on the U.S. economy and businesses. Rosenblum is a past president and executive committee member of the National Association for Business Economics. He currently serves as executive director of the North American Economics and Finance Association and is a member of the Product Development and Small Business Incubator Board, appointed by the governor of Texas. Rosenblum has written for such publications as the Journal of Finance, New York Times and Handbook of Banking Strategy. He is a visiting professor of finance at Southern Methodist University. Rosenblum received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Marc R. Rosenblum
Associate Professor
University of New Orleans
As associate professor of political science at the University of New Orleans, Rosenblum teaches courses in comparative politics and political research methods. His research interests include immigration and U.S. immigration policymaking, U.S.–Latin American relations and Latin American politics. Rosenblum is author of The Transnational Politics of U.S. Immigration Policy (2004) and is currently completing a book on immigration and the U.S. national interest. He has also published articles in numerous academic journals, including Latin American Politics and Society, Political Power and Social Theory and the Annual Review of Political Science. Rosenblum is the recipient of several awards, including a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in 2005. He spent fall 2005 as a visiting fellow at the Migration Policy Institute and worked as a counsel to U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy during the Senate’s immigration debate in spring 2006. Rosenblum earned a doctoral degree from the University of California, San Diego.

Mark R. Rosenzweig
Professor
Yale University
Rosenzweig, the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics and director of the Economic Growth Center at Yale, studies the causes and consequences of economic development and international migration. He is one of the principal investigators for the New Immigrant Survey, the first national longitudinal survey of immigrants in the United States, and has testified before Congress on the topic of immigration. Rosenzweig serves as editor of the Journal of Development Economics. He is co-author of The Chosen People: Immigrants in the United States with G. Jasso and co-editor of Contractual Arrangements: Employment Wages in Rural Labor Markets with H.P. Binswanger. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and a recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship. Rosenzweig has held visiting posts at several universities, including the Wei Lun Visiting Professorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He earned B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University.

Kamal Saggi
Professor
Southern Methodist University
As professor of economics and chair of the economics department at Southern Methodist University, Saggi has done extensive research in theory of international trade and investment, international technology transfer and economic development. He is an associate editor of the Journal of International Economics and serves as the secretary of the International Economics and Finance Society. Saggi has served as a consultant for the Andean Development Corp., the Common-wealth Secretariat, the International Finance Corp., SciDev.Net and various divisions of the World Bank. His work has been published in the International Economic Review, the Journal of Development Economics and the European Economic Review. Saggi holds a B.A. in economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

J. Edward Taylor
Professor
University of California, Davis
Taylor is a professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Davis. Since joining UCD in 1987, he has developed an internationally renowned research program on migration and rural labor markets in Mexico and the U.S. He is co-director of the Program for the Study of Economic Change and Sustainability in Rural Mexico at the Colegio de México in Mexico City. Taylor has written numerous journal articles and book chapters. He is co-author of the book International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market (2004). He holds an M.S. and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Roger W.Wallace
Vice President, Government Affairs
Pioneer Natural Resources
As vice president of government affairs, Wallace is responsible for building and maintaining Pioneer’s relationships with governments and governmental agencies at the federal and state levels. He also currently serves as co-chair on the advisory board of the Woodrow Wilson International Center’s Mexico Institute. Before joining Pioneer Natural Resources, he was president and CEO of Investamex, an investment and consulting firm he co-founded in 1993. He has also served as minister counselor for commercial affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City, where he was responsible for bilateral trade and investment activities. As deputy undersecretary for international trade at the Commerce Department, Wallace managed the day-to-day activities of the International Trade Administration and was responsible for coordinating the Commerce Department’s role during the preparatory phases of the North American Free Trade negotiations. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served as chairman of the Inter-American Foundation and as trustee of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies. Wallace holds a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with postgraduate work at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.

Jeffrey G.Williamson
Professor
Harvard University
Williamson is the Laird Bell Professor of Economics, faculty fellow at the Center for International Development, and faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is also research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He taught at the University of Wisconsin for 20 years before joining the Harvard faculty in 1983. The author of more than 20 books and almost 200 academic articles in economic history, international economics and economic development, Williamson has served as president of the Economic History Association, chairman of the Harvard Economics Department and Master of Mather House at Harvard. His most recent books are Global Migration and the World Economy: Two Centuries of Policy and Performance with T. J. Hatton (2005) and Globalization and the Poor Periphery: The Ohlin Lectures (2006). He has been a visiting professor or visiting scholar at numerous universities throughout the world. He also has had long associations with the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the Inter- American Development Bank as a visiting research fellow and consultant. Williamson received his Ph.D. from Stanford University.