Michael Joseph Piore (born August 14, 1940) is an American
economist and professor of
economics and
political science at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research centers on
labor economics,
immigration, and
innovation. He was awarded a
MacArthur Fellowship in 1984.
Piore attended
Harvard University and received a
B.A. in Economics in 1962 and
Ph.D. in 1966. He has been a faculty member at MIT since 1966 and has previously served as a consultant to the
Department of Labor between 1968 and 1970 and labor consultant to the
government of Puerto Rico between 1970 and 1972.
Piore is best known for the development of the concept of the
internal labor market Internal labor markets (ILM) are an administrative unit within a firm in which pricing and allocation of labor is governed by a set of administrative rules and procedures. The remainder of jobs within the ILM is filled by the promotion or transfer o ...
and the
dual labour market 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 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.
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
The American Economic Association (AEA) is a learned society in the field of economics. It publishes several peer-reviewed journals acknowledged in business and academia. There are some 23,000 members.
History and Constitution
The AEA was esta ...
(1990–1995), and a member of the Governing Board of the Institute for Labour Studies of the
International Labour Organization (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, the
AFL-CIO, and the
Social Science Research Council. He holds a Docteur HONORIS CAUSA from
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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