Gary S. Fields

Cornell University
E-mail: gsf2@cornell.edu


Gary S. Fields is Professor in the Department of Labor Economics and Chair of the Department of International and Comparative Labor in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and in the Department of Economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. He teaches courses in labor economics and economic development. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. His research interests lie in the areas of labor markets and income distribution in comparative perspective and labor economics for managers. He has held visiting position as Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics, DELTA in PAris, the University of Warwick, Oxford University, the University of Nairobi, and the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia. He has also been an advisor to various national and international agencies, including the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, African Economic Research Consortium, United Nations Development Program, ILO, UNICEF, OECD, U.S. Department of Labor, National Science Foundation, the National Commission for Employment Policy, and the governments of the United States, South Africa, Korea, and Bolivias.