Morning Panel on Immigration and Economics
- Moderator: David Molina, Associate Professor of Economics at UNT and Director of the UNT Center for International Economic Studies and Research UNT Economics website
- Pia Orrenius, Senior Economist and Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas: "Economic Effects of Immigration" Dallas Fed Bank website
- Jorge Eduardo Mendoza, Researcher in the Department of Economic Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Tijuana and Professor of Economics at San Diego State University: "Regional Economic Determinants of Mexican Migration to the US" Professor Mendoza's website
- Susan Pozo, Professor of Economics at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo: "Migration, Remittances, and Globalization" Professor Pozo's website
Dr. Orrenius joined the Dallas Fed in 1999. As a labor economist and member of the regional group, she analyzes the regional economy, with special focus on the border region. Her research also focuses on the causes and consequences of Mexico US migration, illegal immigration, and US immigration policy. Dr. Orrenius spent the 2004 academic year as senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President, Washington DC, where she advised the Bush administration on labor, health, and immigration issues. Orrenius is affiliated with several academic institutions. She is a Fellow at the Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University and a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor in Bonn, Germany. Orrenius is also an adjunct professor at Baylor University (Dallas campus), where she teaches in the executive MBA program. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles and bachelor degrees in economics and Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Dr. Mendoza is a Researcher in the Department of Economic Studies in El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. In addition to his research projects, Dr. Mendoza teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Regional Economics, Latin American Economic Problems, North American Economic Integration, and Labor Economics in both El Colef and San Diego State University. Dr. Mendoza was born in Mexicali, Baja California, and he obtained his PhD from the University of Utah, where he specialized in Industrial Organization and International Economics. Previously he has served as the Director of the Department of Economic Studies and as the Coordinator of the Masters program in Applied Economics at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, as well as the Coordinator of the Masters program in Regional Economics in the Center of Socioeconomic Research in the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. He began his professional career as an economist for the Department of International Financial affairs in the Finance Ministry in Mexico. In addition, he is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI), Level II.
