I thank Allan Mendelowitz and Matt Slaughter for helpful comments. All opinions and errors are mine. 1 In this paper I survey the effects of international trade and other influences on the US labor market. First, I examine the move toward globalization and its various manifestations. Second, I trace out the main labor market changes that have occurred over the last two or three decades – declin...

this study is performed in order to study the effect of technical- vocational training on trainee productivity in industrial sector of khorasan and preferring suitable solutions in this field. so labor productivity model was estimated for khorasan industry in period 1985 to 2004. in this model, effects of different variables were investigated on productivity of labor, variables such as: relatio...

This article reassesses agrarian questions by using the ongoing explosion in urban and urbanization theories to explain Jakarta’s poor (the Kaum Miskin Kota) as an extended question. It shows how two capitalist development trajectories identified Lenin Russian American paths, or transformation of feudal large-scale small landholders into capitalists, respectively, do not apply Indonesia. In lat...

Alternative food movements in this country (veganism, local eating, organic, etc.) have often had to frame their demands around the idea that food is both medicine and life, often ignoring the migrant bodies picking these crops. “A Taste of Brown” filters this issue from the perspective of nationalism and capitalist development. It thinks with the experiences of primarily Mexican farm workers i...

Recent papers have argued that standard theories of the labor market, e.g. the Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) matching model, cannot generate significant movements in unemployment and vacancies in response to shocks of a plausible magnitude (Hall 2003, Shimer 2003). This paper shows that introducing on-the-search in the manner of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) and Postel-Vinay and Robin (2002) m...

This pamphlet describes some recent findings reported in the UN's "State of World Population, 1993." The summary focuses on the costs and benefits of migration, investments in technology in order to attract low cost labor, and impetus for migration from economic development. A recent study in the Philippines indicates that reduced migration pressures will require increased capacity to migrate b...

This paper examines the response of employment and wages in the US oil and gas …eld services industry to changes in the price of crude petroleum using a time series of quarterly data spanning the period 1972-2002. I …nd that labor quickly reallocates across sectors in response to price shocks but that substantial wage premia are necessary to induce such reallocation. The timing of these premia ...