Authors: Mohamad Alloush, J. Edward Taylor, Anubhab Gupta, Ruben Irvin Rojas Valdes, and Ernesto Gonzalez-Estrada. They analyze economic life in three Congolese refugee camps in Rwanda and the interactions between refugees and local host-country economies within a 10-km radius around each camp.
Authors: Diane Charlton and J. Edward Taylor. Analysis of nationally representative individual-level panel data from 1980 to 2010 reveals a significant negative trend in the agricultural labor supply from rural Mexico, which is the primary source of hired workers for U.S. farms.
Authors: J. Edward Taylor, Mateusz Filipski, Justin Kagin, et. al. This chapter uses a local economy-wide model to evaluate impacts of the 2008–9 global recession in rural Mexico.
Authors: J. Edward Taylor and Mateusz Filipski. This chapter describes a methodology for cost-benefit analysis that encompasses both the direct and indirect benefits and costs of projects.
Authors: Dale T. Manning and J. Edward Taylor. Many households in developing countries rely on renewable natural resources as their main source of energy. Collecting and burning firewood requires a considerable amount of time, has negative health consequences, and can cause deforestation and depletion of local resources if forests are not properly managed.
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Philip L. Martin (Edited by Hollifield, J., P.L. Martin, and P. Orrenius). Migration is defined by the United Nations as the movement from one of the world's 200+ nation states to another for 12 months or more, regardless of the purpose for being outside the country or birth or citizenship or legal status in the new country.
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Philip R. Martin. US farms employ 2.4 million hired workers sometime during a typical year, over half of whom are unauthorized. Hired farm labor is concentrated by commodity, geography, and size of farm.
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J. Edward Taylor, Diane Charlton, and Antonio Yúnez-Naude. An analysis of nationally representative panel data from rural Mexico, with observations in years 2002, 2007, and 2010, suggests that the same shift out of farm work that characterized U.S. labor history is well underway in Mexico.
Author: Philip L. Martin (Edited by Irena Omelaniuk). This chapter was prepared for discussion at the Roundtable Session 2.1 on “Reducing the costs of migration and maximizing human development,” at the Global Forum on Migration and Development held in Athens, Greece, on November 4–5, 2009.
Author: Philip L. Martin. This article reviews the trade-offs between the competing goods raised by foreign S&E students and workers and the efforts of U.S. government agencies to reconcile them.
