Post Doctoral Fellow

Economics

University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)

Richard Chisik

My research offers some previously unidentified implications on the political economy of immigration in developed countries and also explores new ground on the positive effects of labor liberalization in developing countries.

It is the purpose of my research to fill the gap in the burgeoning literature of labor liberalization and its effects on the world economy. I attempt to provide some previously unidentified implications on the political economy of immigration. In particular, I am attempting to give an economic insight about the availability of more and cheaper varieties of goods and services in host countries that have more immigrants. I am also attempting to present a theoretical rationalization on the different immigration laws that exist among similar, in terms of stock and distribution of capital, host countries. I am also trying to offer a theoretical-political-economic justification for the different attitudes that the residents of a host country have toward immigrants from different origin countries. I am also exploring some new ground on the positive effects of labor liberalization in developing countries. In this approach, the economic progress of a developing country will be shown to be related to its ability to attract the high quality FDI from a developed country through the establishment of skilled emigrant networks.