Panel – Organizing Workers in the Informal Economy: Brazil, China, Mexico, South Africa … and Los Angeles
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 […]
Human Persons, Incompressible Needs and Minimum Wages in Post-war France
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 […]
The Elasticity of Labor Supply to the Firm over the Business Cycle
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 […]
La restructuración de la Industria Siderúrgica en México
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 […]
Book Presentation – Just Neighbors? Research on African American and Latino Relations in the United States
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 […]
2012 Benjamin Aaron Labor Law LectureSeparate and Unequal: Arbitration and Private Justice
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 […]
