UM grads doing well, particularly ones called Brian

Congratulations to recent UM doctorates Brian Cadena and Brian Kovak on winning a young investigator award from the Center for Poverty Research Center at the University of Kentucky.

Here is the description of their research:

Drs. Cadena and Kovak’s proposal is titled U.S. Mexico Local Labor Market Integration: Evidence from the Housing Bust. In this study, the authors propose to determine whether the housing bust created incentives for potential immigrants to avoid entering certain local labor markets and whether immigration flows responded as expected. The results will have implications for determining if the decrease in the inflow of immigrants can mitigate the negative labor market consequences of shocks, such as the recent recession.