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Willy Chen

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Willy Chen

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Department of Economics, College of Social Science

willyc@msu.edu

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Field(s): Labor, Inequality
Website: www.willycecon.com
Title of Job Market Paper: Discounted Degrees: Employer Frictions and the Misallocation of High-Skilled Immigrants
Primary Advisor: Todd Elder & Hanzhe Zhang
Starting Year: 2022

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