Luis Ravina, the Navarra Center for International Development (NCID) Director, traveled to Guatemala between February 17 and 22 along with Junior Researcher Iván Kim to meet with representatives from the public, private, academic, and cooperation sectors. The visit was intended to establish new relationships and strengthen collaboration with known institutions to carry out future research projects in the country.
Two of the meetings were with university colleagues, one at the Research and Projection Institute on Economy and Plural Society (IDIES) of the Rafael LandÃvar Un...
Immigration can affect the receiving country in different fields. One of the obvious ones is the composition of the labour force, especially when immigrants are a considerable component of the economy or when there is an immigration boom. At the beginning and during a recession, part of the public opinion point to migrants, whose role become part of the discussion.
Ismael Gálvez, a Ph.D. candidate at Universidad Carlos III, contributes evidence to this issue with his job market paper The Role of Immigration in a Deep Recession, which he presented at the Navarra Center fo...
NCID Director Luis Ravina and Junior Researcher David Soler travelled for a week to South Africa to visit fellow institutions and colleagues working on development economics and political science research. The visit, from the 27th of January until the 3rd of February, was divided between Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, the three capitals of South Africa.
The aim of the visit was to strengthen ties with colleagues, work towards deepening our collaborations with such and also open towards new partnerships with other institutions. In that sense Prof. Ravina and Soler visited th...