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Michael J. Greenwood, Professor
PhD, Northwestern, 1967
FIELDS
Urban and Regional Economics • Economic Demography
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
The determinants of U.S. and Canadian immigration; economic consequences of U.S. immigration; gender, age, and skill
composition of U.S. immigration; historical U.S. immigration; U.S. internal migration.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND WRITINGS
“USA Immigration Policy, Source-Country Social Programs, and the Skill Composition of Legal USA Immigration,” (with J.M.
McDowell), Journal of Population Economics (forthcoming).
“Family and Sex-Specific U.S. Immigration from Europe, 1870-1910: a panel data study of rates and composition”, Explorations
in Economic History, 356-382, 2008.
“Modeling the Age and Age Composition of Late 19th Century U.S. Immigrants from Europe,” Explorations in Economic History,
255-269, 2007.
“Source-Country Social Programs and the Age Composition of Legal U.S. Immigration” (with J. M. McDowell and M. Wierman),
Journal of Public Economics, 739-771, 2003.
Legal U.S. Immigration: Source Country, Gender, Age, and Skill Composition (with J. M. McDowell). Kalamazoo: W.E. UPJOHN
INSTITUTE for Employment Research, 1999, 295pp.
“The Influence of Social Programs in Source Countries on Various Classes of U.S. Immigration” (with J.M. McDowell, D.M.
Waldman, and S. Zahniser), Journal of the American Statistical Association, 64-74, 1999.
“Internal Migration in Developed Countries,” in M. R. Rosenzweig and O. Stark (eds.), Handbook of Population and Family
Economics. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 647-720, 1997.
“The Factor Market Consequences of Unskilled Immigration to the United States” (with G.L. Hunt and V. Kohli), Labour
Economics, 1-28, 1997.
“The Short-Run and Long-Run Factor Market Consequences of Immigration to the United States” (with G.L. Hunt and V. Kohli),
Journal of Regional Science, 43-66, 1996.
“Economic Effects of Immigrants on Native and Foreign-Born Workers: Complementarily, Substitutability, and Other Channels of
Influence” (with G. L. Hunt), Southern Economic Journal, 1076-1097, 1995.
“The Dynamics of U.S. Internal Migration” (with G. Treyz, D. Rickman, and G. Hunt), The Review of Economics and Statistics,
209-214, 1993.
“Migration, Regional Equilibrium, and the Estimation of Compensating Differentials” (with G. Hunt, D. Rickman, and G. Treyz),
American Economic Review, 1382-1390, 1991.
“Differential Economic Opportunity, Transferability of Skills, and Immigration to the United States and Canada” (with J.
McDowell), The Review of Economics and Statistics, 612-623, 1991.
“Patterns of Change in the Intrametropolitan Location of Population, Jobs, and Housing: 1950 to 1980” (with R. Stock), Journal
of Urban Economics, 243-276, 1990.
“Jobs Versus Amenities in the Analysis of Metropolitan Migration” (with G. Hunt), Journal of Urban Economics, 1-16, 1989.
“The Factor-Market Consequences of U.S. Immigration” (with J. McDowell), Journal of Economic Literature, 1738-1772, 1986.
“Human Migration: Theory, Models, Empirical Studies,” Journal of Regional Science, 521-544, 1985.
“Migration and Interregional Employment Redistribution in the United States” (with G. Hunt), American Economic Review, 957969, 1984.
Migration and Economic Growth in the United States: National, Regional, and Metropolitan Perspectives, New York: Academic
Press Series Studies in Urban Economics, 1981, 256 pp.
“Metropolitan Growth and the Intrametropolitan Location of Employment, Housing, and Labor Force,” The Review of Economics
and Statistics, 491-501, 1980.
“Research on Internal Migration in the United States: A Survey,” Journal of Economic Literature, 397-433, 1975.
“An Analysis of the Determinants of Geographic Labor Mobility in the United States,” The Review of Economics and Statistics,
189-194, 1969.
September 2009