James H. Peoples

Professor

Office: NWQ B, Room 4410
Phone: (414) 229-4482
e-mail: peoples@uwm.edu
Web Page: people.uwm.edu/~peoples

Degrees:

Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
M.A., University of California at Berkeley
B.A., California State University, Dominguez Hills

Research Interests:

Regulatory Reform and Labor Markets, Corporate Mergers Effect on Labor Earnings and Employment

Current Projects:

Earnings and Employment in Deregulated Industries

Selected Publications:

"An Empirical Test of Modal Choice and Allocative Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Coal Transportation," Transportation Research Part E:  Logistics and Transportation Review, 46, 2010: 1043-56 (with NurulHuda Mohd Satar).

"Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Wages in the U.S.,"  Manchester School, 77(1), January 2009: 47-64 (with Saif Alhakimi).

"Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Racial Employment Patterns in U.S. Manufacturing," American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), 97(2), May 2007: 378-82 (with Abera Gelan and Kaye Husbands Fealing).

"Wage Differentials of Railroad Managers and Non-Managerial Labor: Deregulation Versus Regulation," In Railroad Economics, Elsevier Science Publishers, Rotterdam: The Netherlands, eds. Scott Dennis and Wayne Talley, 2007, pp. 265-287 (with Wayne Talley).

"Risk Compensation for Hospital Workers: Evidence from Relative Wages of Janitors," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 59(2), January 2006: 226-42 (with Keith Bender and Hosne Mridha).

Microeconomic Problems: Case Studies and Exercises for Review, eleventh edition, Norton Publishers: New York, New York, 2004, (with Edwin Mansfield).

Transportation Labor Issues and Regulatory Reform, Volume 10, Elsevier Science Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2004 (with Wayne Talley).

"Managerial Earnings Trends in Deregulated Transport Industries," Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, 37(3), September 2003: 417-39.