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Here You Will Find Links to My Publications and Some Other Folks

My current research focuses on the construction industry including analysis of construction labor market regulations, contracting, bidding, training and safety issues. I have also looked at the evolution of the cannery labor market and I am currently expanding my research into an old area of interest--immigration. 

     Construction  Canning  Race, Gender & Immigration  Working Papers

Also you may be interested in the following books:

Three Worlds of Labor Economics, (co-edited with Garth Mangum), M.E. Sharpe, N.Y., 1988, ISBN 0-87332-455-2 and 0-87332-456-0 (pbk), 357p.

This collection of readings presents neoclassical, institutional and radical approaches to labor market analysis.

Portable Pensions for Casual Labor Markets: Lessons from the Operating Engineers Central Pension Fund, Quorum Books, 1995 (co-authored with Teresa Ghilarducci, Garth Mangum and Jeff Petersen).

This book presents a case study of a multiemployer pension fund in construction analyzing the various factors that allow for an efficient provisioning of pension benefits in a casual labor market.

Building Chaos: An International Comparison of the Effects of Deregulation on the Construction, (co-edited with Gerhard Bosch) Routledge Press, London, 2003, 240pp. index ISBN 0-415-26090-6.

These case studies of regulations across nine different countries shows the contrasting effects of regulation and deregulation on the operations of the construction labor and product markets.

The Economics of Prevailing Wage Laws, (co-edited with Hamid Azari-Rad and Mark Prus) Ashgate Publishers, (2005) ISBN 0-7546-3255-5.

This compendium provides a history and public policy analysis of prevailing wage regulations including a look at construction costs, skill formation, safety benefit payments and cost shifting between industry paid health insurance and publicly subsidized health care.

 

 

 

      

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