Greg Wright

Greg Wright is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of California, Merced, affiliated with the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts and Social Sciences & Management department. He also holds a Non-Resident Senior Fellow position at Brookings.

His research focuses on International Trade, Immigration Economics, and Economic Growth, with particular emphasis on:

• Labor market responses to globalization
• Immigration's role in economic development
• ICT's impact on income distribution
• Trade liberalization effects
• Workforce planning for energy transitions
• Policy tools for urban economic growth

Recent publications analyze the second wave of globalization's local incidence, immigrant workforce support for U.S. jobs, and workforce development programs' optimization. His work appears in journals like Journal of International Economics, European Economic Review, and American Economic Review.

Wright earned his PhD in Economics (2011), MA in Economics (2006) from UC Davis, and BA in Astrophysics (1998) from UC Berkeley. He explores intersections between immigration, offshoring, and technological change through empirical studies and policy analysis.