Smith School of Business and Economics at California State University Channel Islands. His research is primarily in labor economics. Other fields of interest include public finance and industrial organization. Miguel currently teaches intermediate macroeconomic theory, as well as different upper-division interdisciplinary general education courses. Miguel’s current research examines the Mexican labor market using postings from an internet job board, focusing in particular on the value of being bilingual in that market. Using this data, Miguel is also working with Peter Kuhn to analyze other aspects of the Mexican job market, as well as on-line job boards more generally.