Fields, Gary Sheldon
Professorresearch
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
- Colombia | country
- India | country
- Kenya | country
- South Africa | country
affiliations
head of
- International and Comparative Labor (ILRIC) | Cornell department
faculty appointment in
- Labor Economics (ILRLE) | Cornell department
member of graduate field
- Economics | graduate field
- Industrial and Labor Relations | graduate field
- International Development | graduate field
- Latin American Studies | minor graduate field
- Public Affairs | graduate field
other Cornell affiliations
- Asian Studies | graduate field
- Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center (BLCC) | research center
- Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI) | research center
- Comparative Economic Development | academic program office
- Cornell Population Program (CPP) | research program
- East Asia Program | academic program office
- International and Comparative Labor (ILRIC) | Cornell department
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)
teaches
- ILRIC 4950 - Honors Program (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ILRLE 4970 - Field Research (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ILRLE 4980 - Internship (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ILRLE 5440 - Labor Market and Personnel Economics (TBA -) | fall 2009 class
- ILRIC 4970 - Field Research (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- ILRIC 4980 - Internship (TBA -) | spring 2009 class
- ILRIC 7300 - Research Seminar on Labor Markets in Comparative Perspective (M 01:30:PM-02:30:PM) | spring 2009 class
- ECON 7720 - Economics Development (TBA -) | fall 2008 class
- ILRLE 5400 - Labor Economics (MW 11:40:AM-12:55:PM) | fall 2008 class
- ILRLE 7490 - Economics of Deveopment (TBA -) | fall 2008 class
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
featured in
- ILR School announces new program, Globalization and the Workplace | Cornell Chronicle feature
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
- The Many Facets of Economic Mobility, July, 2005
- Does Income Mobility Equalize Longer-Term Incomes? New Measures of an Old Concept, July 2005
- Employer Strategies for Recruitment and Screening: High-Performance Systems or Diminishing Returns? with Jed Devaro, May, 2005
- Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela: Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses with Maria Laura Sánchez Puerta, Robert Duval Hernández and Samuel Freije, May, 2005
- Minimum Wages and Poverty with Ravi Kanbur, May, 2005
- How is Convergent Mobility Consistent with Rising Inequalite? A Reconciliation in the Case of Argentina with Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta, 2005
- A Guide to Multisector Labor Market Models, March, 2005
- Economic and Social Mobility Really are Multifaceted, July, 2004.
- Doing the Right Jobs Right: Which Managerial Competencies and Activities Help and Hurt Profits at Borders?
with Jed L. DeVaro, July, 2004. - Waging the War for Talent: Do Recruitment and Screening Strategies Raise Employee Performance?
with Jed L. DeVaro, July, 2004. - One Talent or Many?: Million Dollar Variables and Statistically Insignificant Indexes
with Jed DeVaro, June, 2004. - Regression-Based Decompositions: A New Tool for Managerial Decision-Making,
March, 2004. - It Pays To Do It Myself: Managerial Time and Indirect Production,
with Rachel Kranton. - Bottom-Line Management
[book manuscript], February, 2004. - Reflections on My Immersion in India, January, 2004
- Should Poverty and Inequality Measures Be Combined?
in Alain de Janvry and Ravi Kanbur, eds., Poverty, Inequality and Development: Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke, Kluwer, September, 2003. - Francs or Ranks: Earnings Mobility in France, 1967-1999, with Moshe Buchinsky, Denis Fougére, and Francis Kramarz, March, 2003.
- How Demanding Should Equality of Opportunity Be, and How Much Have We Achieved?, with Valentino Dardanoni, John Roemer and Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta