Michael Joseph Piore (born August 14, 1940) is an American
economist
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The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this ...
and professor of
economics
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and
political science
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at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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. His research centers on
labor economics,
immigration
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, and
innovation
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. He was awarded a
MacArthur Fellowship
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in 1984.
Piore attended
Harvard University
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and received a
B.A.
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in Economics in 1962 and
Ph.D.
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in 1966. He has been a faculty member at MIT since 1966 and has previously served as a consultant to the
Department of Labor
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between 1968 and 1970 and labor consultant to the
government of Puerto Rico
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and the
dual labour market
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hypothesis and, more recently, for work on the transition from mass production to
flexible specialization. He has worked on a number of labor market and
industrial relations
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unions, employer organizations, ...
problems, including low income labor markets, the impact of technological change upon work, migration,
labor market segmentation Labor market segmentation is the division of the labor market according to a principle such as occupation, geography and industry.
One type of segmentation is to define groups "with little or no crossover capability", such that members of one segme ...
and the relationship between the labor market, business strategy and
industrial organization
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.
Piore is a member of the Executive Board of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the
American Economic Association
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History and Constitution
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(1990–1995), and a member of the Governing Board of the Institute for Labour Studies of the
International Labour Organization
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(1990–1996). In addition to the ILO, Piore has worked with many other international organizations, foreign governments, U.S. government agencies, state governments, and nonprofit organizations including the
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
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, the
AFL-CIO, and the
Social Science Research Council
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. He holds a Docteur HONORIS CAUSA from
Lille University of Science and Technology
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References
External links
MIT Economics faculty homepage
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1940 births
Living people
21st-century American economists
Marxian economists
Harvard University alumni
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty
MacArthur Fellows