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Pierre-Louis Vézina
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Economist at King's College London. Trade, development, migration, political madness, grand corruption. pierrelouisvezina@weebly.com
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📢 #CallForPapers 7th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration
CEPR @ebrd.bsky.social King's College London & Sapienza University are co-organising a workshop on 28-29 May 2026 in Rome
Submit by 23 January
cepr.org/events/7th-w...
@micheledimaio.bsky.social @plvezina.bsky.social #EconSky
November 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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📢 We’re hiring!

King's College London Political Economy is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer in the UK system) in Economics.

Apply here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130885-...

Feel free to contact me for information about the role and our department.

@kcl-spe.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social
Lecturer in Economics | King's College London
www.kcl.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Looking forward to presenting our work on solar panel manufacturing at the Vietnam Firms and Labour Markets Online Seminar on 1 Dec. See thread 👇 Registration link: share.google/Spbr1BnURaeB...
November 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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🚨New working paper: Compositional Effects, Internal Migration and Electoral Outcomes

osf.io/preprints/so...

#polisciresearch
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
OK that's a good title.
Over the past 3 decades, high-skill migrants from Asia—especially India and China—have transformed the US economy, fueling innovation, tech, higher ed, and healthcare growth, from Gaurav Khanna www.nber.org/papers/w34449
November 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
CfP🗣️: 7th edition of the Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration. 28-29 May 2026, in Rome!

Organised by CEPR/King's College/EBRD/Sapienza

Keynotes are Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford).

Submit your papers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Deadline 23 Jan.

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November 12, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Econ prof job at King's 🔥🔥🔥
We're hiring a Full Prof in Economics (open-field) at the Econ dept in King's Business School. Come join us in central London - apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12... #Econsky 1/2
EJM - Econ Job Market
econjobmarket.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Nice!!!
New from me:

An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.

Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5
Billionaire Migration: An Interactive Map
An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,106 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.
wesleystubenbord.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🆕 From brain drain to brain bridges: How mobile PhD scientists connect home countries to global science

Today on VoxDev w/ Rodrigo Ito @unumerit.bsky.social, Diego Chavarro, Tommaso Ciarli, Robin Cowan (University of Strasbourg) & Fabiana Visentin (Masstricht University): voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
From brain drain to brain bridges: How mobile PhD scientists connect home countries to global science
Internationally trained PhDs are often seen as a ‘brain drain’, but evidence from Colombia suggests that they act as crucial bridges – connecting local researchers to the global scientific community.
voxdev.org
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Stalin’s forced deportation of educated ‘enemies of the people’ inadvertently concentrated human capital in Gulag towns, fostering inter-generational prosperity and long-term development despite the destructive intent of the repression.

Read today's article to learn more:
October 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A new VoxDev piece on our work on enemies of the people. While we ended up writing about how human capital can foster growth, we've learned a lot while working on this about the atrocities authoritarians are capable of... and this makes the current groundwork of the US regime scary as hell...
October 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
This. Stop focusing on how to appeal to voters and focus on how to use the justice system and the media to root out racism/populism/authoritarianism.
“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
October 14, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A remarkable story: Omar Yaghi, born a refugee in Jordan, came to America as a teen to attend community college and later earned a Ph.D. and the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Immigrants have won 40% of the U.S. Nobel Prizes in science since 2000. @mclem.org
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Half Of The 2025 U.S. Nobel Prize Winners In Science Are Immigrants
Three of the six U.S. winners in the 2025 Nobel Prize science categories immigrated to the United States, one of them as a teenager.
www.forbes.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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New Paper 📢📝
"Asylum Seekers, New Businesses, and Job Creation"
by @zohalhessami.bsky.social @sebastianschirner.bsky.social
& Clara Wobbe

Have a look at how asylum seekers affect host-country economies from a supply and demand perspective.
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
October 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Russia has become the largest single-country buyer of Ecuadorian bananas, purchasing 1.5 million metric tons during 2024 and the first half of 2025.

How is it related to global diversification of cocaine trafficking routes? 🤔
September 29, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Kicking off this year's seminar series with Lucy Barnes (@lucy-barnes.bsky.social) on "Economic Orientations and Preferences Over Redistributive Taxation."

Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.
🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup!

Externals welcome. Please get in touch at bouke.klein_teeselink@kcl.ac.uk or teresa.estebancasanelles@kcl.ac.uk.

📅 Full schedule 👇
September 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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An algorithm. Benevolent algorithms are underrated.

My experience on Twitter pre-2022 was fantastic because the algorithm enabled me to see useful content and placed my posts in the feeds of people I hoped would see it.
If you could change one thing about Bluesky, what would it be?
September 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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For those interested, here's a thread explaining the paper's core ideas 👇 @aeajournals.bsky.social 1/14
September 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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➡️ Are you wondering about the potential effects of the Trump tariffs on China?

➡️ Are you especially interested in the renewable energy sector?

👀 Read on #EconSky 👇
November 25, 2024 at 11:05 AM
September 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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📣 Join us for a new monthly online (Zoom) seminar: Science of International Migration Seminar (SIMS). We have a great initial lineup of speakers including @mclem.org, Leah Boustan, Giovanni Peri, and @profzeke.bsky.social. Things kick off Ocotber 9th! Register here: stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Science of International Migration Seminar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Please click one of the Add ...
stanford.zoom.us
September 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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*** NEW RESEARCH ALERT ***

How do firms respond in the face of increased restrictions to hiring skilled immigrant workers?

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September 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What up Athens! Excited to be here for my sabbatical year, based at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Time for research and sunshine. Come visit!
September 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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📣 UPDATE: Discover the 🆕 Conference Program of the 18th @afd-france.bsky.social World Bank International Conference on #Migration & #Development

📅 Event held Sept. 25-26, 2025 in Paris

🤝 W/ keynote's from: Paula Gobbi, @dmckenzie.bsky.social & @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social

#EconSky #Inequality
September 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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New WP thread! 🤓 Vietnam's solar panel exports boomed between 2018 and 2022. With my PhD student Meng Yu Ngov, Trang Thu Tran, and Gaurav Nayyar we look at how this industry success can be attributed to attracting FDI and importing parts and components, as well to Chinese subsidy spillovers.👇
September 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM