George Boyer

George Boyer is Martin P. Catherwood Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, specializing in labor history and economic development. His research examines historical labor markets, social welfare policies, and migration patterns in Britain and China.

Research focuses on historical poverty alleviation mechanisms, unemployment relief systems, and regional inequality. Recent work investigates old age pauperism in Victorian England and migration patterns in post-reform China.

Publications demonstrate longitudinal analysis of social welfare systems, combining economic history methods with labor economics to examine poverty relief policies from the Poor Laws to modern social insurance systems.