Across the globe, workers in the informal economy are organizing -- from trash recyclers in Brazil and day laborers in China, to street vendors in Mexico and domestic workers in […]
The passage of minimum wage legislation in 1950 led to one of the odder chapters in the history of French bureaucratic committees. Paul Bacon, Minister of Labor, convened a High […]
Recent work suggests that the labor elasticity of supply to the firm is finite. In other words, labor markets are not perfectly competitive. We provide the first estimates of the […]
Starting in the 1980s, the Mexican government reduced its participation in the steel industry, a sector which had been one of the engines of national economic growth.The government closed, restructured […]
Editors Edward Telles, Mark Sawyer and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado willbe joined by distinguished panelists to discuss how African Americans and Latinos relate to each other in contemporary American society and how […]
Cliff Palefsky, a dynamic speaker and leading critic of mandatory arbitration agreements, will provide valuable insights from the plaintiff's perspective on the "hot topic" of employment dispute arbitration. Mr. Palefsky […]
After the horse race is over and Election 2012 has been decided, the business of governing is going to get very difficult very quickly. With budget cuts looming and taxes […]