From 2001 to 2013, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) used “hot goods” injunctions to crack down on suspected violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act by farmers who employed migrant workers. While the DOL's use of the “hot goods” injunction in perishable agriculture is an effective...

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards do not permit complicity in modern slavery, human trafficking, or child labor (Principles for Responsible Investment [PRI] 2021, 4). And yet, the breadth and depth of oppressive labor practices in US and global corporate supply chains is, in...

We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...

Este Cuaderno presenta los resultados del estudiode "Caracterización del empleo en el sector palmicultorcolombiano", realizado a partir de una serie de Encuestas atrabajadores y hogares del sector palmicultor y de sectoressimilares (agroindustriales); Encuestas a las empresas delsector;...

This paper looks at the causes of rural conflict in 1930s Spain. Rather than stressing bottom-up forces of mobilisation linked to poor harvests and rural unemployment or the inability of the state to enforce reformist legislation, this paper explores the role of state policy in sorting out the...

We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can...