Labor Migrants

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.

Author: 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.

Authors: 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.

Authors: Giovanni Peri and Francesc Ortega. This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries.

Authors: Giovanni Peri and Mette Foged.

Authors: Giovanni Peri, and Francesco D'Amuri. In this paper they analyze the impact of immigrants on the type and quantity of native jobs.

Author: Cecilia Tsu. The Oxford University Press, 2013.

Authors: Brian M. Kemp, Ripan S. Malhi, Andrés Reséndez, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2010

Author: Cecilia Tsu. Western Historical Quarterly, 2006.

Authors: M. Anne Visser and Edwin Melendez. CENTRO Journal, 2011.