The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective explores the unique character of agricultural labor markets and the implications for food production, farm worker welfare and advocacy, and immigration policy. Agricultural labor markets differ from other labor markets in fundamental ways related to seasonality and uncertainty, and they evolve differently than other labor markets as economies develop. We weave economic analysis with the history of agricultural labor markets using data and real-world events. The farm labor history of California and the United States is particularly rich, so it plays a central role in the book, but the book has a global perspective ensuring its relevance to Europe and high-income Asian countries. The chapters in this book provide readers with the basics for understanding how farm labor markets work (labor in agricultural household models, farm labor supply and demand, spatial market equilibria); farm labor and immigration policy; farm labor organizing; farm employment and rural poverty; unionization and the United Farm Workers movement; the Fair Food Program as a new approach to collective bargaining; the declining immigrant farm labor supply; and what economic development in relatively low-income countries portends for the future of agriculture in the United States and other high-income countries. The book concludes with a chapter called "Robots in the Fields," which extrapolates current trends to a perhaps not-so-distant future.  The Farm Labor Problem serves as both a guide to policy makers, farmworker advocates and international development organizations and as a textbook for students of agricultural economics and economics.Describes the unique character of agricultural labor markets providing consequential insightsContextualizes the economics of agricultural labor with a global perspectiveExamines the history of farm labor, immigration, policy and collective bargaining with a view to the future

The Farm Labor Problem: A Global Perspective

Business & Money

Taylor, J. Edward

Charlton, Diane

Economics

Academic Press

Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium (International Studies in Demography)

By applying systematic theoretical frameworks to detailed empirical data, Worlds in Motion provides a unique overview of not only where migration occurs, and how it works, but crucially details the major factors that influence international population movement.

Worlds in Motion : Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium (International Studies in Demography)

Politics & Social Sciences

Massey, D.S.

Arango, Joaquin

Hugo, Graeme

Kouaouci, Ali

Pellegrino, Adela

Arango, J.

Hugo, G.

Kouaouci, A.

Pellegrino, A.

Taylor, J.E.

Social Sciences

Clarendon Press

This book provides researchers, students, and practitioners with a methodology to evaluate the impacts of a wide diversity of development projects and policies on local economies. Projects and policies often create spillovers within project areas. LEWIE uses simulation methods to quantify these spillovers. It has become a complement to randomized control trials (RCTs), as governments and donors become interested in documenting impacts beyond the treated, comparing the likely impacts of alternative interventions, and designing complementary interventions to influence program and policy impacts. It is also a tool for impact evaluation where RCTs are not feasible. Chapters 1-4 motivate and present the basics of impact simulation, including how to design a LEWIE model, how to estimate the model, and how to obtain the necessary data. The remaining chapters provide a diversity of interesting real-world applications and extensions of the basic models. The applications include evaluations of the impacts of cash transfers for the poor, ecotourism, global food-price shocks, irrigation projects, migration, and corruption. Each chapter provide readers with the tools they need to conduct their own local economy-wide impact evaluations. All models and data used in this book are available on-line.

Beyond Experiments in Development Economics: Local Economy-wide Impact Evaluation

Filipski, Mateusz J.

Oxford University Press

The twentieth century has seen immense worldwide shifts in population. Whether it is Europe to North America, the Caribbean to the United Kingdom, or East Asia to Australia, migration is one of the major factors that influences the global political and economic situation. By applying systematic theoretical frameworks to detailed empirical data, Worlds in Motion provides a unique overview of not only where migration occurs, and how it works, but crucially details the major factors that influence international population movement.

Massey, Douglas S.

Essentials of Development Economics

Written to provide students with the critical tools used in today’s development economics research and practice, Essentials of Development Economics represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for undergraduate development economics courses, Essentials of Development Economics offers a broad overview of key topics and methods in the field. Its fourteen easy-to-read chapters introduce cutting-edge research and present best practices and state-of-the-art methods. Each chapter concludes with an embedded QR code that connects readers to ancillary audiovisual materials and supplemental readings on a website curated by the authors. By mastering the material in this book, students will have the conceptual grounding needed to move on to higher-level development economics courses.

Lybbert, Travis J.

University of California Press

Essentials of Applied Econometrics prepares students for a world in which more data surround us every day and in which econometric tools are put to diverse uses. Written for students in economics and for professionals interested in continuing an education in econometrics, this succinct text not only teaches best practices and state-of-the-art techniques, but uses vivid examples and data obtained from a variety of real world sources. The book’s emphasis on application uniquely prepares the reader for today’s econometric work, which can include analyzing causal relationships or correlations in big data to obtain useful insights.

Essentials of Applied Econometrics

Smith, Aaron D.

Written to provide students with the critical tools and approaches used by development economists, Essentials of Development Economics represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for undergraduate development economics courses, Essentials of Development Economics offers a broad overview of key topics and methods in the field. Its fourteen easy-to-read chapters introduce cutting-edge research and present best practices and state-of-the-art methods. By mastering the material in this time-tested book, students will have the conceptual grounding needed to move on to more advanced development economics courses.\nThis new edition includes: updated references to international development policy process and goals substantial updates to several chapters with new and revised material to make the text both current and policy relevant replacement of several special features with new ones featuring widely cited studies\nFrom the Inside Flap\n&#34;In this book, Taylor and Lybbert have succeeded in producing an advanced undergraduate and masters textbook for our time. They manage to marry classical development economics&;with its emphasis on structural transformation and international trade&;with the more recent focus on poverty alleviation through microinterventions and improved public good delivery. The book covers a lot of ground in a concise, coherent, and elegant way. It provides a good platform from which to inspire young people and prepare them to better understand the world of tomorrow.&#34;&;Marcel Fafchamps, Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University\n&#34;There are few textbooks in development economics that are both fully modern and fully accessible to the introductory student. Essentials of Development Economics is just such a textbook. It provides students access to the most contemporary ideas such as experimentation while simultaneously engaging students with a compelling synthesis of the most broad, historical, and important ideas that have emerged in the field.&#34;&;Bruce Wydick, Professor of Economics, University of San Francisco\n&#34;Taylor and Lybbert have done it again: the third edition of Essentials of Development Economics expertly covers the key topics and approaches in our dynamic field, weaving in the most exciting new research breakthroughs. This textbook will enrich any course.&#34;&;Edward Miguel, Oxfam Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley\n&#34;J. Edward Taylor and Travis J. Lybbert respond in this book to the profession&;s call for seeking answers to the big questions in development. They do so in the most admirable and convincing manner, exploring the work development economists actually do. Their essentials are indeed essential for any student of development.&#34;&;Finn Tarp, Professor of Development Economics, University of Copenhagen\n&#34;This new text provides an accessible introduction to development economics. It is essential to understanding how three-quarters of the global population live. The authors touch on key current research topics while also covering the history of thought on the topic. An outstanding volume!&#34;&;&;Christopher B. Barrett, S.B. &#38; J.G. Ashley Professor of Applied Economics, Cornell University\nFrom the Back Cover\n"In this book, Taylor and Lybbert have succeeded in producing an advanced undergraduate and masters textbook for our time. They manage to marry classical development economics—with its emphasis on structural transformation and international trade—with the more recent focus on poverty alleviation through microinterventions and improved public good delivery. The book covers a lot of ground in a concise, coherent, and elegant way. It provides a good platform from which to inspire young people and prepare them to better understand the world

Essentials of Development Economics, Third Edition

Written to provide students with the critical tools and approaches used by development economists, Essentials of Development Economics represents an alternative approach to traditional textbooks on the subject. Compact and less expensive than other textbooks for undergraduate development economics courses, Essentials of Development Economics offers a broad overview of key topics and methods in the field. Its fourteen easy-to-read chapters introduce cutting-edge research and present best practices and state-of-the-art methods. By mastering the material in this time-tested book, students will have the conceptual grounding needed to move on to more advanced development economics courses. &nbsp; This new edition includes: <ul> <li>updated references to international development policy process and goals</li> <li>substantial updates to several chapters with new and revised material to make the text both&nbsp;current and policy relevant</li> <li>replacement of several special features with new ones featuring&nbsp;widely cited studies</li> </ul>

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