Fields, Gary Sheldon

Professor

research

research and scholarship focus

  • Labor Economics
  • Development Economics
  • Workplace Economics and Management
  • Economic mobility
  • Labor market models
  • Workplace management: an economic approach
  • economic development
  • economics and economic policy
  • human resource management
  • human resource management - international
  • income distribution and security
  • international studies
  • labor market trends and analysis
  • older workers aging and pensions
  • social insurance and welfare
  • strategic planning
  • wage differentials and inequalities
  • global HR
  • HR Practice and Strategy
  • Labor Market Policy
  • Statistical Theory Methods and Analysis
  • Work and the Global Economy
  • Management Development and Human Resources

international geographic focus

affiliations

head of

faculty appointment in

member of graduate field

other Cornell affiliations

teaching

teaching focus

  • Labor Economics (undergraduate and graduate)
  • Economic Development (undergraduate and graduate)
  • Labor Markets and Income Distribution in Developing Economies (undergraduate and graduate)
  • Research Seminar on Labor Markets in Comparative Perspective (graduate)
  • Workplace Management (graduate)

service

current professional activities

  • Professor in Cornell University’s Department of Labor Economics (ILR School)
  • Professor in Cornell University’s Department of Internationaland Comparative Labor (ILR School)
  • Professor in Cornell University’s Department of Economics (College of Arts and Sciences)
  • Professor in Cornell University’s  JohnsonGraduate School of Management.

background

educational background

  • Ph.D., Economics, University of Michigan, 1972
  • M.A., Economics, University of Michigan, 1969
  • B.A., Economics, University of Michigan, 1967

professional background

  • 1987-2005                                 Chairman, Department of International and Comparative Labor, Cornell University
  • 1999-2000, 1991, 1985-1988    Chairman, Department of Labor Economics, Cornell University
  • 1991-1994                                 Director, ILR International Initiative, Cornell University
  • 1978-1982                                 Associate Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics, Cornell University
  • 1977-1978                                 Assistant Director, Economic Growth Center, Yale University
  • 1976-1978                                 Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University
  • 1972-1976                                 Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University

publications

selected publications (listing in progress)

Books

  • Mobility and Inequality:  Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics, co-edited with David Grusky and Stephen Morgan (Stanford University Press, 2005)
  • Monitoring International Labor Standards, co-authored with other members of a National Research Council panel (The National Academies Press, 2004)
  • Pathways Out of Poverty, co-edited with Guy Pfeffermann
    (Kluwer, 2003).
  • Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World
    (Russell Sage Foundation and MIT Press, 2001)

Articles and Chapters

  • Earning and Employment Dynamics for Africans in Post-Apartheid South Africa:  A Panel Study of KwaZulu-Natal, with Paul Cichello and Murray Leibbrandt, Journal of African Economies, June 2005.
  • A Welfare Economic Analysis of Labor Market Policies in the Harris-Todaro Model, Journal of Development Economics, February 2005.
  • The Microeconomics of Changing Income Distribution in Malaysia,
    in François Bourguignon, Francisco Ferreira, and Nora Lustig, Microeconomics of Income Distribution in East Asia and Latin America, Inter-American Development Bank, 2005.   
  • Dualism in the Labor Market, The Manchester School, December 2004.
  • "International Labor Standards and Decent Work: Perspectives from the Developing World,"
    in Robert Flanagan and William Gould, eds., International Labor Standards: Globalization, Trade and Public Policy, Stanford University Press, 2003.
  • "Household Income Dynamics: A Four Country Story,"
    with Paul Cichello, Samuel Freije, Marta Menéndez, and David Newhouse, Journal of Development Studies, December, 2003.
  • "Escaping from Poverty: New Evidence on Household Income Dynamics,"
    with Paul Cichello, Samuel Freije, Marta Menéndez, and David Newhouse, in Gary Fields and Guy Pfeffermann, eds., Pathways out of Poverty, Kluwer, 2003.
  • "For Richer or For Poorer: Evidence for Indonesia , South Africa , Spain , and Venezuela ," with Paul Cichello, Samuel Freije, Marta Menéndez, and David Newhouse, Journal of Economic Inequality, April, 2003.
  • "Decent Work' and Development Policies," International Labour Review, 2003.
  • "Long-Term Economic Mobility and the Private Sector in Developing Countries," with Walter S. Bagg, in Gary Fields and Guy Pfeffermann, eds., Pathways Out of Poverty, Kluwer, 2003.
  • "Accounting for Income Inequality and Its Change: A New Method, with Application to the Distribution of Earnings in the United States ," Research in Labor Economics, 2003.

 Working Papers