Santiago Pérez on Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration

We talk with Santiago Pérez about why their experiences as immigrants in each country differed widely. Santiago Pérez is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Davis and Faculty Research Fellow at the NBER. He works on economic history, with a focus on immigration and social mobility.  He holds a Phd in Economics from Stanford University.

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