Tony Fang

Memorial University of Newfoundland, Collaborating Academic Partner, Member Employment and Lifelong Learning Theme

EducationPhD, University of Toronto

Areas of ExpertiseImmigration, diversity and cultural changes, pension, retirement policy and the ageing workforce, minimum wages and youth employment, union impact on wages, innovation and firm growth, pay equity, employment equity

tfang@mun.ca

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Tony Fang is the Stephen Jarislowsky Chair in Economic and Cultural Transformation at Memorial University of Newfoundland and an Adjunct Professor with the University of Toronto. He currently holds the J. Robert Beyster Faculty Fellowship at Rutgers University.

Over the course of his career, Tony has sat on the World Bank's Expert Advisory Committee on Migration and Development (2014-19) and was the Director of the Master of International Business Program at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia (2013-14). He served as the President of the Chinese Economists Society (2012-13) and the Domain Leader at CERIS, Ontario Metropolis Centre (2009-12). He was a visiting professor at Harvard University and NBER, Wharton School, City University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Tsinghua University, and Fudan University, University of Science and Technology of China, Hanyang University (South Korea).

In 2017, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in recognition of his commitment to inspiring better ways of thinking, acting and delivering change.

Recent Publications

Fang, T., & Wells, A. (2023). Diaspora Economics (external link) . In K. F. Zimmermann (Ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics (pp. 1–23). Springer International Publishing.

Fang, T., Xiao, N., Zhu, J., & Hartley, J. (2022). Employer Attitudes and the Hiring of Immigrants and International Students: Evidence from a Survey of Employers in Atlantic Canada (external link) . Canadian Public Policy, 48(S1), 17–37.

Fang, T., Zhang, T., & Hartley, J. (2023). Examining Determinants of Employers’ Attitudes toward Hiring Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey (external link) . Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 1–16.