2026 Giovanni Peri: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	70	458	409	307	269	379	26080

Overview

Giovanni Peri is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of social sciences, with a focus on several subfields including sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, general health professions, political science and international relations, and demography.

The main areas of study for their work include migration and labor dynamics, migration, ethnicity, and economy, migration, refugees, and integration, labor market dynamics and wage inequality, employment and welfare studies, urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, and economic history and contemporary issues related to Italy.

Giovanni Peri has contributed to multiple academic publications, with frequent appearances in:

SSRN Electronic Journal
American Economic Journal Applied Economics
Journal of Labor Economics
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d économique
Journal of Public Economics

Among recent papers published, notable works include:

"The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers: Evidence from Switzerland" (2021) published in American Economic Review
"The Political Impact of Immigration: Evidence from the United States" (2021) published in American Economic Journal Applied Economics
"Language Training and Refugees' Integration" (2022) published in The Review of Economics and Statistics
"Internal Mobility: The Greater Responsiveness of Foreign-Born to Economic Conditions" (2020) published in The Journal of Economic Perspectives
"How Cognitive Ability and Personality Traits Affect Geographic Mobility" (2020) published in Journal of Labor Economics

Frequent collaborators in Giovanni Peri's research include:

Mette Foged
Linea Hasager
Simone Moriconi
Jacob Nielsen Arendt
Gaetano Basso

Best Publications

Rethinking the Effect of Immigration on Wages

Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano;Giovanni Peri

2264
Citations
The economic value of cultural diversity: evidence from US cities

Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano;Giovanni Peri

1459
Citations
Innovation and spillovers in regions: Evidence from European patent data

Laura Bottazzi;Giovanni Peri

1406
Citations
Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages

Giovanni Peri;Chad Sparber

1253
Citations
The Causes and Effects of International Migrations: Evidence from OECD Countries 1980-2005

Francesc Ortega;Giovanni Peri

948
Citations
The Effect of Immigration on Productivity: Evidence from US States

Giovanni Peri

792
Citations
DETERMINANTS OF KNOWLEDGE FLOWS AND THEIR EFFECT ON INNOVATION

Giovanni Peri

689
Citations
Identifying Human Capital Externalities. Theory with Applications

Antonio Ciccone;Giovanni Peri

636
Citations
The effect of income and immigration policies on international migration

Francesc Ortega;Giovanni Peri

631
Citations
Regional non-adjustment and fiscal policy

Maurice Obstfeld;Giovanni Peri

567
Citations
Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Mette Foged;Giovanni Peri

542
Citations
The causes and effects of international migrations: evidence from OECD countries 1980-2005

Francesc Ortega;Giovanni Peri

510
Citations
STEM Workers, H-1B Visas, and Productivity in US Cities

Giovanni Peri;Kevin Shih;Chad Sparber

508
Citations
The Migration Response to Increasing Temperatures

Cristina Cattaneo;Giovanni Peri

473
Citations
Immigration and National Wages: Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics

Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano;Giovanni Peri

468
Citations
Cities and cultures

Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano;Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano;Giovanni Peri;Giovanni Peri

455
Citations
The Labor Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990’s

Francesco D’Amuri;Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano;Giovanni Peri

448
Citations
The Causes and Effects of International Migrations: Evidence from OECD Countries 1980-2005

Francesc Ortega;Francesc Ortega;Giovanni Peri

433
Citations
Immigration, offshoring and American jobs

Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano;Giovanni Peri;Gregory Wright

382
Citations
Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages

Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano;Giovanni Peri

355
Citations
Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection: Evidence from Europe before and during the Great Recession

Francesco D'Amuri;Giovanni Peri

262
Citations
Rethinking the Effects of Immigration on Wages

Giovanni Peri;Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano

238
Citations
Immigration, jobs and employment protection: evidence from Europe before and during the Great Recession

Giovanni Peri

91
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano Bocconi University

Frédéric Docquier Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

Caglar Ozden World Bank

Julián Messina University of Alicante

Sascha O. Becker University of Warwick

Valentina Bosetti Bocconi University

Andrea Ichino European University Institute

Maurice Obstfeld University of California, Berkeley

Gabriel Felbermayr Austrian Institute of Economic Research

Christopher A. Parsons University of Western Australia

External Links

Wikipedia of Giovanni Peri Personal website of Giovanni Peri Google Scholar page

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