Dr. Mary C. King
Professor of Economics (1992)

Ph.D. 1991 University of California, Berkeley;
Rhodes Scholar, Industrial Relations, 1980-81,
Oxford University, England; B.A. 1979 Stanford University.
 

503-725-3940 
kingm@pdx.edu

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Teaching Fields

  • Economics of Labor Markets
  • Labor Institutions and Policies
  • Graduate Course in Social Sustainability
  • Women in the Economy
  • Economics of Race and Ethnicity
  • History of Economic Thought
  • Principle of Macroeconomics


Research Interests

  • Mexican Migration to the U.S.
  • Mexican Women in the U.S. Economy
  • The Social Aspect of Sustainability
  • The Dynamics of Ethnicity and Gender in the Labor Market and Economy
Research and Publications
  • Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability. Forthcoming. with Jesse Dillard and Veronica Dujon (eds.) New York: Routledge.

  • "What Sustainability Really Means," March/April 2008. Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs 51 (2); 27-39.

  • "Defining Social Sustainability: The Political Economy of Social Reproduction" 2008. in John T. Harvey and Robert F. Garnett, Jr. (eds.) Future Directions for Heterodox Economics. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

  • "Even Gary Becker Wouldn't Call Them Altruists! The Case of Mexican Migration. A Reply to Sana and Massey, SSQ, June 2005." 2007. Social Science Quarterly 88 (3): 898-907.

  • "Women's Work: Using U.S. History to Explain Mexican Women's Differential Work Strategies in Mexico and in the U.S." 2006 The Review of Radical Political Economics 38 (3): 405-412.

  • "Occupational Segregation by Race and Sex in Brazil, 1989-2001." December 2005. Working Paper Series #1, Observatory on Structures and Institutions of Inequality in Latin America, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Miami.

  • "'Keeping People in Their Place:' The Economics of Violence," "Globalization and African Americans: A Focus on Public Employment," and, with Cecilia A. Conrad, "Single Mother Families in the Black Community: Economic Context and Policies," 2005. John Whitehead, Cecilia Conrad, Patrick Mason and James Stewart (eds.) African Americans in the American Economy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

  • " 'Race Riots' and Black Economic Progress."  Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 30 (4): 51-66, 2003.

  • "Strong Families or Patriarchal Economies? 'Familial' Labor Markets and Welfare States in Comparative Perspective."Luxembourg Income Study Workpaper No. 301. January 2002. Also available on Social Science Research Network website

  • "Strong Families or Patriarchal Economies? Southern European Labor Markets and Welfare States in Comparative Perspective." RSC No. 2002/14, Mediterranean Programme Working Paper Series, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute of Florence, Italy.

  • "The Complexities and Potential of Theorizing Gender, Caste, Race and Class" with Rose M. Brewer and Cecilia F. Conrad. 2002. Feminist Economics 8 (2): 3-18.

  • Squaring Up, Policy Stategies to Raise Women's Incomes in the United States. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001.

  • "Out in Front: An Interview with Barbara Bergman." with Lisa F. Saunders, Review of Political Economy, Vol. 12, #3, 2000.

  • "Should Black Women and Men Live in the Same Place? An Intermetropolitan Assessment of Relative Labor Market Success." with Todd Easton, Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. 27, #3, Winter 2000.

  • "Differences in Wage Levels Between Metropolitan Areas: Less-Educated Workers in the United States." with Todd Easton. Regional Studies, Volume 34 #1, 2000.

  • "Labor Market Segmentation" with Margaret Lewis and Janice Peterson (eds.) The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics, 1999, Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

  • "Keeping People in Their Place: An Exploratory Analysis of the Role of Violence in the Maintenance of "Property Rights" in Race and Gender Privileges in the U.S." Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 31, #3, September 1999.

  • "Interview with Marianne Ferber: Founding Feminist Economist." with Lisa F. Saunders. Review of Political Economy, Volume 11, #1, January 1999.
  • "Are African-Americans Losing Their Footholds in Better Jobs?" Journal of Economic Issues, Volume 32, #3, September 1998.

  • "Occupational Strategies of Lesbians and Gay Men" with M.V. Lee Badgett in Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed (eds.) Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community and Lesbian and Gay Life, Routledge: New York, 1997.

  • "The American Labor Movement" with Harold Vatter and John F. Walker (eds.) History of the U.S. Economy Since World War II, M.E. Sharpe: Armonk, NY, 1996.

  • Black Women's Labor Market Status: Occupational Segregation in the United States and Great Britain," The Review of Black Political Econommy, Volume 24, #1, Summmer 1995.

  • "Human Capital and Black Women's Occupational Mobility," Industrial Relations, Volume 34, #2, April 1995.

  • "An Assessment of Three (Somewhat) Competitive Explanations for Black Women's Recent Breakthrough into Clerical Work," Review of Radical Political Economics, Volume 26, #3, September 1994.

  • "Black Women's Breakthrough into Clerical Work: An Occupational Tipping Model," Journal of Economic Issues, Volume XXVII, #4, December 1993.

  • "The Evolution of Occupational Segregation by Race and Gender, 1940-1988," Monthly Labor Review, Volume 115, #4, April 1992.

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