Gary Fields has been an Ivy League teacher and professor for more than thirty years. After receiving Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of Michigan, he became a professor at Yale University at age 25. Six years later, he took up a tenured professorship at Cornell University. At Cornell, he teaches and conducts research in labor economics, workplace management, and development economics in several units: the Department of Labor Economics in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Johnson Graduate School of Management. He has chaired the Department of Labor Economics three times and also chairs Cornell's Department of International and Comparative Labor. He has received perfect teacher ratings in several Cornell University courses (5.0/5.0) and has received the General Mills Foundation Award for Exemplary Graduate Teaching.
Articles and Papers
Validating U.S. Earnings Mobility Measures (with Lisa M. Dragoset), Articles & Chapters (2007)
Earnings mobility has been studied at both the macro level (the amount of mobility in...
Dual Economy, Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] Dual economy models arose as a reaction against single sector models. A half-century ago,...
Income Mobility, Working Papers (2007)
Income mobility means different things to different people. This article explains the six different mobility...
Labor Market, Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] According to textbooks such as Ronald Ehrenberg and Robert Smith’s "Modern Labor Economics" (2005),...
The Harris-Todaro Model, Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] In terms of the current discussion of pro-poor economic growth, the Harris-Todaro model and...
Working Papers
Income Mobility in China: Main Questions, Existing Evidence, and Proposed Studies (with Shuang Zhang), Working Papers (2007)
The international literature presents studies of macro mobility (how much income mobility is there in...
Labor Market Policy in Developing Countries: A Selective Review of the Literature and Needs for the Future, Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] This is a paper about modeling labor market policies in developing countries. The paper...
Does Income Mobility Equalize Longer-Term Incomes? New Measures of an Old Concept, Working Papers (2007)
This paper develops a new class of measures of mobility as an equalizer of longer-term...
Earnings Mobility in Times of Growth and Decline: Argentina from 1996 to 2003 (with Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta), Working Papers (2007)
In recent years, the economy of Argentina has experienced both rapid economic growth and severe...
Excerpts from Bottom-Line Management, Working Papers (2007)
[Excerpt] You’re reading this book because you want to do good and you want to...
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Segmented Labor Market Models in Developing Countries, Articles & Chapters (2008)
Labor markets are important, because most people, especially the poor, derive all or the great...
Employer Strategies for Recruitment and Screening: High-Performance Systems or Diminishing Returns? (with Jed DeVaro), Working Papers (2008)
We study the effects of recruitment and screening methods on worker performance. If high-performance recruitment...
ILR Impact Brief - Economic Development, Labor Markets, and Poverty Reduction, Policy & Issue Briefs (2007)
[Excerpt] Economic development is generally understood to involve improvements in economic well-being for a society...
Intergenerational Income Mobility in Latin America (with Robert Duval Hernandez, Samuel Freije, and Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta), Articles & Chapters (2007)
[Excerpt] Economic mobility has not been widely studied in developing countries until very recently owing...
Income Mobility in India, Articles & Chapters (2007)
[Excerpt] 'Income-mobility' analysis involves following the same people for two or more points in time...