Philip Martin is a labor economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he worked at the Brookings Institution and the U.S. Department of Labor, focusing on labor and immigration issues. He has worked for the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and United Nations in many countries around the world, and is the author of numerous articles and books on labor and immigration issues. Martin's research focuses on farm labor and rural poverty, labor migration and economic development, and immigration policy and guest worker issues; he has testified before Congress and state and local agencies numerous times on these issues. He is the editor of Migration News and Rural Migration News (http://migration.ucdavis.edu), and received UCD's Distinguished Public Service award in 1994.
Michael Fix is vice president and director of studies at the Migration Policy Institute, an independent think tank on national and international migration issues located in Washington, D.C. Before joining MPI in January 2005, Mr. Fix was director of Immigration Studies at the Urban Institute. Mr. Fix's research has focused on immigration and immigrant integration policy, race and the measurement of discrimination, federalism, and regulatory reform. Mr. Fix's recent immigration and immigrant policy research has focused on social rights and citizenship, immigrant education, and the impact of immigrants on the U.S. labor force. His recent publications include "A Profile of the Low-Wage Immigrant Labor Force"; Overlooked and Underserved: Immigrant Students in U.S. Secondary Schools; and "All Under One Roof: Mixed-Status Families in an Age of Reform." He is currently working on a study of the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act and English language learners.
J. Edward Taylor is a professor of agricultural and resource economics and director of the Center on Rural Economies of the Americas and Pacific Rim at the University of California, Davis. His recent research integrates household and general-equilibrium modeling to address questions related to rural market imperfections; population, migration, and labor supply; poverty and income inequality; technology adoption; and the environment. He also researches U.S. farm labor and rural poverty.
