Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration … rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both. Examining labor immigration policies … liberalization of international labor migration through temporary migration programs that protect a universal set of core rights and …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as reference a perfectly … competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The Economics of Imperfect Labor Markets is the only textbook to focus … on imperfect labor markets and to provide a systematic framework for analyzing how labor market institutions operate …

We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment … for the important changes and differences in labor and investment demand between the two subperiods and across the three …

The paper aims at qualifying the links between labor-market-institutions, taxation, tax monitoring, and underground … the government. Vacancies and workers search are directed at a specific labor market. Workers are heterogenous in the …

division of labor. Moreover, as firms switch to decentralization, their employment structure becomes more homogeneous and wage …

the newer one is based on a confusion between the conceptual and factual determination of the value of labor power. Second …

class positions would be open to blacks and whites? What forms of agricultural tenure could persist? And what paths to … qualitative and quantitative data, including several thousand interviews with former slaves, letters, labor contracts, memoirs …

, sovereign debt in the age of Philip II of Spain, the regulation of child labor in nineteenth-century Europe, meat provisioning …