Rachel friedberg Phone: (401) 863-7578
Office: 210 Robinson Hall
email: Rachel_Friedberg@brown.eduTitle: Lecturer, Economics
Research Interests
Economics of Immigration
Background
Rachel Friedberg joined Brown University in 1992 as Assistant Professor of Economics. Friedberg received her Ph.D in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. Her dissertation was entitled "Immigration and the Labor Market." A Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research since 1993, Rachel focuses her research on labor market assimilation of immigrants in Israel and the United States, the transferability of human capital, the impact of immigration on native labor market outcomes, and internal migration.
Upon receiving a Lady Davis Fellowship, Friedberg spent the academic year of 1995-1996 as a Visiting Professor at Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, studying the impact of immigration on the Israeli labor market.
Selected Publications:
"You Can't Take it With You? Immigrant Assimilation and the Portability of Human Capital," Journal of Labor Economics, April 2000, 18(2): 221-251.
"The Impact of Mass Migration on the Israeli Labor Market," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2001, 116(4): 1373-1408.
"Immigration and the Receiving Economy," in The Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience, Charles Hirschman, Philip Kasinitz, and Josh DeWind, editors. New York: Social Science Research Council and Russell Sage Foundation, 1999 (joint with J. Hunt).
"The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1995, 9(2): 23-44 (joint with J. Hunt).
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