2024 Migration and Organizations Conference
May 8-9, 2024
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Jon M. Huntsman Hall, 8th Floor
3730 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
The premier gathering of scholars at the intersection of migration and organizations. Now in its sixth edition, this conference is designed to advance rigorous research and strengthen our community of scholars. We are a welcoming group open to all disciplinary and methodological approaches.
This event is by invitation only. If you are interested in being added to the invitation list, please contact immigration@wharton.upenn.edu.
Keynote Speakers
Danielle Alperin
Assistant Director, Scholar Rescue Fund
Zeke Hernandez
Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Noura Ismail
Global Program Director, Talent Beyond Boundaries
Cynthia Jasso
Program Officer, George Kaiser Family Foundation
Greg Liegel
VP of Product, Envoy Global
Ben Stewart
Managing Director, George Kaiser Family Foundation
Schedule
Wednesday, May 8
Doctoral Consortium
8:00 AM
Breakfast and Welcome
8:30 AM
Icebreaker and Introductions
9:00 AM
PhD Paper Development Workshop
10:15 AM
Research Ideation Session
10:45 AM
Publishing Migration Research in Management Journals
Mary Zellmer-Bruhn and Martin Ganco
Main Conference Program
12:00 PM
Kickoff Lunch and Welcome
1:00 PM
Paper Session 1 and 2
Session 1: Entrepreneurship Among Vulnerable Migrant Groups
The business multiplier effect of refugees: Evidence from Ukrainians in Poland
Pierre-Louis Vézina, King’s College London
Refugee Entrepreneurs Network Disruption & Opportunity Recognition: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment in Uganda
Zahra Hejrati, Stanford University; Madhanie Gaim, Umea University; Charles Eesley, Stanford University
Entrepreneurial Activity as a Way to Override a Stigmatized Immigrant Status
Sandra Portocarrero, Columbia University; Dan J. Wang, Columbia University
Session 2: Immigrant Hiring
Scrambling for Talent: U.S. Startups’ Reactive Strategy to Cope with Visa Restrictions
Ashlee Li, Georgia Institute of Technology
“Outing Outsourcing:” The Impact of a Mandated Transparency Initiative on Immigrants’ Salary and Contractor Status
Ben Rissing, Cornell University; Peter Polhill, Cornell University
The Impact of Business Engagement in Refugee Hiring on Consumer Attitudes and Social Inclusion
Jongwoo Jeong, Washington University in St. Louis; Minjee Sun, University of Iowa; Boyoon Lee, Vanderbilt University
2:45 PM
Keynote Panel
Learning from organizations supporting migrant transitions
Ben Stewart, Managing Director, George Kaiser Family Foundation
Noura Ismail, Global Program Director, Talent Beyond Boundaries
Danielle Alperin, Assistant Director, Scholar Rescue Fund
Greg Liegel, VP of Product, Envoy Global
Cynthia Jasso, Program Officer, George Kaiser Family Foundation
4:15 PM
Paper Session 3 and 4
Session 3: High Skilled Labor
Empowering Migrant Entrepreneurs: Navigating Barriers in Self-Regulating Professions and Maximizing Human Capital
Adam Cragg, University of Calgary
The Burden of Knowledge Redeployment: The Performance Implications of Human capital Geographic Redeployment
Hyoungwon Yoon, Bocconi University
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The Contextualized Intersectionality Among Global Professionals
Lucy Liu, Columbia Business School; Michael Morris, Columbia Business School; Yihan (Becca) Wang, Columbia University
Session 4: Assimilation
Linguistic traits of female migrant talent in professional and entrepreneurial settings
Raushan Aman, Oulu Business School; Maria Ivanova-Gongne, Åbo Akademi University; Maria Elo, University of Southern Denmark; Mukhammadyusuf Shaymardanov, Jyväskylä University; Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen, Åbo Akademi University
I never tended to myself: Immigrant Latinaas, their well-being, labor market assimilation, and entrepreneurial processes
Ashley Gomez, University of Pittsburgh
Refugee Capital: Transforming Social Marginalization into a Market Advantage
Michelle Lee, Northwestern University
Navigating Gender-based Status Change: How Gender Status Change Impacts Skilled Migrants’ Work Experience
Mary Zellmer-Bruhn and Youjeong Song, University of Minnesota
6:00 PM
DINNER
Thursday, May 9
8:00 AM
Breakfast
9:00 AM
Paper Session 5 and 6
Session 5: Firm Strategy
Skilled Immigration and Technology Upgrades as Exports Boosters
Leonardo Peñaloza-Pacheco, Cornell University and CEDLAS; Carlo Lombardo, Cornell University and CEDLAS
The Role of Unequal Spatial Distribution of African Migration in Chinese Exports to Africa
Zhiling Wang, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Mirko H. Benischke, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Ajay Bhaskarabhatla, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Lijuan Yin, Liaoning University
Global Palette: The Impact of Immigrant Talent on Multinational Product Strategy
Natalie Carlson, University of Pennsylvania; Dany Bahar, Brown University; Exequiel Hernandez, University of Pennsylvania
Home Where the Heart Is: CEOs’ Pre-career Overseas Exposure and Firms’ Cross-Border Acquisitions
David Weng, California State University, Fullerton; Yi Tang, University of Hong Kong; Xuefei Yu, University of Hong Kong
Session 6: STEM Workers
The Impact of STEM OPT Extension on the US Inventor Pool
Seungmin Yoo, Boston University
Migration and Local Problem-Solving: Evidence From Developing Countries
Gauri Subramani, Lehigh University; Caroline Fry, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Stay rates and careers of foreign doctorate recipients from Dutch universities: A bibliometric analysis
Andriy Romanyuk, University of Bordeaux & University of Insubria; Francesco Lissoni, University of Bordeaux & Bocconi University
Abortion Restriction Laws and Mobility of Biomedical Scientists
Beril Yalcinkaya, University of Maryland, College Park; Waverly W. Ding, University of Maryland, College Park
10:45 AM
Paper Session 7 and 8
Session 7: Migration Experiences and Entrepeneurship
Returnee Entrepreneurship: Towards a Configurational Approach on Entrepreneurial Satisfaction
Daomi Lin, Sun Yat-sen University; Wenwen An, Guangdong University of Technology; Qian Cecilia Gu, Georgia State University
Home Country Work Experience and Immigrant Self-Employment in the United States
Alejandro Gutierrez-Li, North Carolina State University
Cross-border Visits and Scientific Collaboration
Hyo Kang, USC Marshall; Chungeun Yoon, KDI School
Session 8: Macro Shocks and Innovation
Labor and Invention as Complements: Evidence from 1920s Immigration Quotas
Kirk Doran, University of Notre Dame
Did Africa’s Slave Trades Spur an Innovation Brain Drain?
Ikenna Uzuegbunam, Howard University
Migrants’ Human Capital and Social Capital: Implications for Immigration Policy
Ram Mudambi, Solon Moreira, & Deepak Nayak, Temple University
12:00 PM
Keynote Speaker and Lunch
Zeke Hernandez will tell us about his forthcoming book, The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers (All participants will receive a free copy)
2:00 PM
Paper Session 9 and 10
Session 9: Return Migration
Returnee Corporate Leaders and Firm Innovation Performance: An Institution-carrier Perspective
Jun Xia, University of Texas at Dallas
‘Returning Brains’: Tax Incentives, Migration and Scientific Productivity
Pier Paolo Creanza, Princeton University
Global Mobile Inventors
Dany Bahar, Brown University; Prithwiraj Choudhury, Harvard Business School; Ernest Miguelez, CSIC; Sara Signorelli, CREST
Session 10: Wages
Immigration and Worker Responses Across Firms: Evidence from Administrative Records in Colombia
Lukas Delgado-Prieto, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
The Global Job Ladder
Todd Schoellman, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; Paolo Martellini, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jason Sockin, IZA
The Role of Labor Unions in Immigrant Integration
Julia Li Zhu, Samuel Dodini, & Alexander Willén, Norwegian School of Economics