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Overview

Gary S. Fields is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance, with a particular focus on income, poverty, inequality, and economic theory and policy.

The main fields of study for Gary S. Fields include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these fields, subfields of study include:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • General Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • History
  • Safety Research

Their research topics cover:

  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Political Economy and Marxism
  • Economic theories and models
  • Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
  • North African History and Literature
  • Middle East Politics and Society

Gary S. Fields has published several notable papers including:

  • Lockdown: Gaza through a Camera Lens and Historical Mirror (2020) in Journal of Palestine Studies
  • The Growth-Employment-Poverty Nexus in Africa (2023) in Journal of African Economies
  • Earnings mobility during labor market reforms in urban China (2022) in China Economic Review

Fields has also contributed to book publications, including a work titled "Informality and work status" released in 2020 as part of the Working Paper Series.

Frequent co-authors in Fields's research include:

  • Robert Hernandez
  • George Jakubson
  • Xin Meng
  • Yang Song
  • Ravi Kanbur

Gary S. Fields' work often appears in a diverse set of academic venues such as:

  • Journal of Palestine Studies
  • Journal of African Economies
  • China Economic Review
  • International Economic Review
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World

    Gary S. Fields

  • Rural-urban migration, urban unemployment and underemployment, and job-search activity in LDCs.

    Gary S. Fields

  • Poverty, inequality, and development

    Gary S. Fields

  • Distribution and Development: A New Look at the Developing World

    Gary S. Fields

  • World development report 1990 : poverty

    Helena Ribe;Ehtisham Ahmad;Jacques van der Gaag;Robert L. Ayres

  • Labour Market Modelling and the Urban Informal Sector: Theory and Evidence

    Gary S Fields

  • Accounting for Income Inequality and its Change: A New Method, With Application to the Distribution of Earnings in the United States

    Gary S. Fields

  • Poverty, Inequality, and Development

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  • The Meaning and Measurement of Income Mobility

    Gary S. Fields;Efe A. Ok

  • A guide to multisector labor market models

    Gary S. Fields

  • The Measurement of Income Mobility: An Introduction to the Literature

    Gary S. Fields;Efe A. Ok

  • Changes in poverty and inequality in developing countries

    Gary S. Fields

  • Measuring Movement of Incomes

    Gary S. Fields;Efe A. Ok

  • FALLING LABOR INCOME INEQUALITY IN KOREA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH: PATTERNS AND UNDERLYING CAUSES

    Gary S. Fields;Gyeongjoon Yoo

  • Retirement, Pensions, and Social Security

    Gary S. Fields;Olivia Mitchell

  • Social Capital and Capital Gains in Silicon Valley

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  • Place-to-Place Migration: Some New Evidence

    Gary S Fields

  • ON INEQUALITY COMPARISONS

    Gary S Fields;John C. H. Fei

  • ACCOUNTING FOR INCOME INEQUALITY AND ITS CHANGE: A NEW METHOD, WITH APPLICATION TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF EARNINGS IN THE UNITED STATES

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  • The economics of retirement behavior

    Olivia S. Mitchell;Gary S. Fields

  • DUALISM IN THE LABOR MARKET: A PERSPECTIVE ON THE LEWIS MODEL AFTER HALF A CENTURY

    Gary S. Fields

  • Does Income Mobility Equalize Longer-term Incomes? New Measures of an Old Concept

    Gary S. Fields

  • EMPLOYMENT, INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN SEVEN SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES

    Gary S Fields

  • Retirement, Pensions, and Social Security.

    Alicia H. Munnell;Gary S. Fields;Olivia S. Mitchell

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivia S. Mitchell
Olivia S. Mitchell University of Pennsylvania
Ravi Kanbur
Ravi Kanbur Cornell University
Kaushik Basu
Kaushik Basu Cornell University
François Bourguignon
François Bourguignon Paris School of Economics
Murray Leibbrandt
Murray Leibbrandt University of Cape Town
T. Paul Schultz
T. Paul Schultz Yale University
Dominique van de Walle
Dominique van de Walle Center for Global Development
Denis Fougère
Denis Fougère Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Christopher Winship
Christopher Winship Harvard University
Vijayendra Rao
Vijayendra Rao World Bank

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