Selected Publications

INTERNATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS

 "Education and Economic Development in Puerto Rico," in Barry Bosworth and Susan Collins, editors, The Puerto Rican Economy: Prospects for Growth, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., forthcoming, 2005 (book chapter, with Helen F. Ladd).

Democracy, Participation and Development, Special Issue of Review of Development Economics, Vol. 6, No. 2, June 2002 (guest editor, with Luis A. Rivera-Batiz).

The Political Economy of the East Asian Crisis: Tigers in Distress, Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, U.K. (edited book volume, with Arvid Lukauskas), 2001.

International Financial Liberalization, Capital Flows and Exchange Rate Regimes, Special Issue of Review of International Economics, Volume 9, No. 4, November 2001 (guest editor, with Luis A. Rivera-Batiz).

"Global Trends in the Financing of Higher Education: Prospects and Challenges for the Next Decade," paper prepared for the Task Force on Higher Education and Society, The World Bank/United Nations/Harvard Institute for International Development, 1999 (research report, with David E. Bloom, Harvard University).

Island Paradox: Puerto Rico in the 1990s, Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1996 (book volume, with Carlos Santiago).

International Finance and Open Economy Macroeconomics, Second Edition, Prentice Hall Publishers, New Jersey (book volume, with Luis A. Rivera-Batiz), 1994.

"The Effects of Direct Foreign Investment in the Presence of Increasing Returns Due to Specialization," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 34, No. 1, November 1990, 287-307 (with Luis A. Rivera-Batiz).

"Agglomeration and Heterogeneity in Space," Special Issue of Regional Science and Urban Economics, Vol. 18, No. 1 February 1988 (guest editor, with Masahisa Fujita).

"Foreign Capital and the Contractionary Impact of Currency Devaluation, with an Application to Jamaica," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 26, No. 1, June 1987, 1-15 (with Luca Barbone).

"Foreign Ownership, Nontraded Goods and the Effects of Terms of Trade Changes on National Welfare," Economics Letters, Vol. 20, No. 4, July 1986, 367-371 (With Aquiles Almansi).

"International Migration, Nontraded Goods and Economic Welfare in the Source Country," Journal of Development Economics, Vol. 11, No. 1, August 1982, 81-90.

"The Capital Market and Income Distribution in Yugoslavia," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1980, 179-184.

LATINO STUDIES AND URBAN EDUCATION ISSUES

"Latino Poverty," in Deena Gonzalez and Suzanne Oboler, editors, The Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, Oxford University Press, New York, forthcoming, 2005.

"Puerto Rican New Yorkers in the 1990s: A Demographic and Socioeconomic Profile," in Angelo Falcón, Gabriel Haslip-Viera and Felix Matos Rodríguez, eds., Puerto Ricans in Gotham: Past, Present and Future, Arte Publico Press, Houston, 2004.

"NewYorktitlán: The Socioeconomic Status of Mexican New Yorkers," Regional Labor Review, Winter/Spring 2004.

"The Impact of School-to-Work Programs on Minority Youth Employment and Student Outcomes," in William J. Stull and Nicholas M. Sanders, ed., The School to Work Movement: Origins and Destinations, Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, 2003, 169-188.

"The Dominican Population of the United States: A Socioeconomic Profile, 2000," Dominican Studies Institute, City College, City University of New York, New York, 2003 (with Ramona Hernandez, City College).

Reinventing Urban Education, IUME Press, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, New York, 1996 (edited book volume).

"Vocational Education, the General Equivalency Diploma and Urban and Minority Populations," Education and Urban Society, Vol. 27, No. 3, May 1995, 313-327.

Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Changing Reality, National Puerto Rican Coalition, Washington, D.C., 1994 (book volume, with Carlos Santiago, University of Wisconsin).

"Quantitative Literacy and the Likelihood of Employment Among Young Adults in the U.S.," Journal of Human Resources, Vol. 27, No. 2, Spring 1992, 313-328.

"The Effects of Literacy on the Earnings of Hispanics in the United States," in Emilio Melendez, Clara Rodríguez and Janis Barry-Figueroa, eds., Hispanics in the Labor Force, Plenum Publishers, New York, New York, 1991, 53-75.

"Literacy Skills and the Wages of Young Black and White Males in the U.S.," Economics Letters, Vol. 32, April 1990, 377-382.

IMMIGRANTS AND INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION

"International Migration and the Brain Drain" in Amitava Krishna Dutt, editor, International Handbook of Development Economics, Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, U.K., forthcoming, 2005.

"Undocumented Workers in the Labor Market: An Analysis of the Earnings of Legal and Illegal Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.," in Klaus F. Zimmermann and A. Constant, eds., How Labor Migrants Fare, Springer Verlag Publishers, Berlin, 2004, 307-332. Reprinted paper originally published in Journal of Population Economics.

"The Labor Market Effects of Immigration in the United States and Europe: Substitution vs. Complementarity," in: Klaus F. Zimmermann and Thomas K. Bauer, eds., The Economics of Migration: The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, U.K., 2002,  Reprinted paper originally published in Journal of Population Economics. (With Ira N. Gang, Rutgers University).

"The International Migration Experience of Mexico: Socioeconomic Aspects," in Ralph Rotte and Peter Stein, eds., Migration Policy and the Economy, Hanns-Seidel Foundation, Muenchen, Germany, 2002, 205-218.

"Illegal Immigrants in the U.S. Economy: A Comparative Analysis of Mexican and Non-Mexican Undocumented Workers," in Slobodan Djajic, ed., International Migration: Trends, Policy and Economic Impact, Routledge Publishers, London, 2001, 180-203.

"Underground on American Soil: Undocumented Workers and U.S. Immigration Policy," Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 53, No. 2, Spring 2000, 485-501.

"Migration and the Labour Market: Regional and Sectoral Impacts in the U.S. and Latin America," in Jean-Pierre Garson, ed., Migration, Free Trade and Regional Integration in North America, OECD, Paris, 1998, 121-133.    

"Immigrants and Schools: The Case of the Big Apple," Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Fall 1995, 84-89.

"English Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Young Immigrants in U.S. Labor Markets," Policy Studies Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer 1992, 165-175.

U.S. Immigration Policy Reform in the 1980s: A Preliminary Assessment, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1991 (edited with Selig L. Sechzer and Ira N. Gang, Rutgers University).

"Can Border Industries Reduce Immigration to the U.S.?," American Economic Review, Vol. 76, No. 2, May 1986, 263-268.

"Trade Theory, Distribution of Income, and Immigration," American Economic Review, Vol. 73, No. 2, May 1983, 183-187.

"The Effects of Immigration in a Distorted Two‑Sector Economy," Economic Inquiry, Vol. 19, No. 4, October 1981, 626-639.