Gary Fields

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Gary Sheldon Fields (born October 1, 1946 ) is an American economist and professor at Cornell University . Fields was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics for his work on development economics and labor economics in 2014.

Life

Fields studied economics at the University of Michigan and got there in 1967 with a Bachelor of Arts in 1969 his Master of Arts and his Ph.D. in 1972. In the same year he was appointed associate professor at Yale University , promoted to assistant professor in 1976 and took over the management of the Economic Growth Center in 1977. In 1978 he moved to Cornell University as a professor in the Department of Economics and the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, now the ILR School of Cornell University. In 1982 he was appointed full professor and in 2008 received the John P. Windmuller Chair for International and Comparative Labor Economics.

He worked as a consultant for, among others, the World Bank , World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), Research Institute for the Future of Work , Asian Development Bank , Inter-American Development Bank , International Labor Organization (ILO), Global Development Network and the United Nations .

research

His research interests include labor economics , development economics and finance (public economics).

At the 2014 IZA Prize in Labor Economics , his outstanding contributions to the importance of efficient labor markets and stable employment for poverty reduction and economic development in least developed and developing countries were recognized. Fields established poverty , inequality and income mobility as indicators of development and thus revolutionized economic thinking. In his early publications from 1977 to 1980 he posed the key question of development economics, namely who benefits from economic development and for what reasons. He later identified income mobility as another crucial factor.

Books (selection)

  • Employment and development: how work can lead from and into poverty . Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-1918-5316-6 .
  • with Guillermo Cruces, David Jaume, Mariana Viollaz: Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America . Oxford University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0-1925-2150-7 .
  • Working Hard, Working Poor: A Global Journey . Oxford University Press, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-1997-9464-5 .
  • Bottom-line management . Springer-Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-71446-0 .
  • with Stephen L. Morgan, David B. Grusky: Mobility and Inequality: Frontiers of Research from Sociology and Economics . Stanford University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-8047-5249-7 .
  • Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World . Russell Sage Foundation and MIT Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-2620-6215-2 .
  • Poverty, Inequality and Development . Cambridge University Press, New York 1980, ISBN 978-0-5212-2572-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notice de personne: Fields, Gary S. , Bibliothèque nationale de France . Retrieved October 13, 2019.
  2. ^ Gary Field on the ILR School website at Cornell University. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c George A. Akerlof , Rebecca M. Blank, Corrado Giulietti, Richard Portes, Klaus F. Zimmermann: Award Statement of the IZA Prize Committee . Retrieved October 13, 2019.
  4. ^ A b c curriculum vitae of Gary S. Fields , www.ilr.cornell.edu. Retrieved October 13, 2019.
  5. ^ Gary S. Fields receives IZA Prize in Labor Economics . In: Journal of Population Economics . Volume 28, Number 2, April 2015, pp. 261-263. doi : 10.1007 / s00148-014-0538-4 .
  6. ^ Gary S. Fields: Who Benefits from Economic Development? . In: The American Economic Review . Volume 67, Number 4, September 1977, pp. 570-582, JSTOR 1813390 .
  7. ^ Gary S. Fields: Poverty, Inequality and Development . Cambridge University Press, New York 1980, ISBN 978-0-5212-2572-4 .
  8. ^ Gary S. Fields, Efe A. Ok: The Meaning and Measurement of Income Mobility . In: Journal of Economic Theory . Volume 71, Number 2, 1996, pp. 349-377. doi : 10.1006 / jeth.1996.0125 .
  9. ^ Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World . Russell Sage Foundation and MIT Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-2620-6215-2 .
personal data
SURNAME Fields, Gary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fields, Gary Sheldon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1946