Richard Barry Freeman

What Do Unions Do

This comprehensive economic assessment of unions by two Harvard economists challenges the prevailing view of trade unions as monopolies whose main fun...

What Workers Want

Based on data from the Worker Representation and Participation Survey (WRPS) conducted in 1994, provides an account of employee's attitudes about part...

Labour Markets in Action

Essays in Empirical Economics

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The Overeducated American

Analyzes the 1970s downturn in the labor market for college-educated manpower, considers consequences for educational institutions, and explores polic...

Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization?

In this study, the authors move beyond the debate on the relative merits and risks of a social clause in trade agreements and focus on practical appro...

Labor Economics

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When Earnings Diverge

Causes, Consequences, and Cures for the New Inequality in the U.S.

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The Market for College-trained Manpower

A Study in the Economics of Career Choice

USA. Econometrics study of the effect of adjustments in labour demand and labour supply in respect of university graduate professional workers on wage...

Business Labor Relations Goals and Practices Across OECD Countries

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The Decline in the Economic Rewards to College Education

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On the Divergence in Unionism Among Developed Countries

In this paper I explore the evolution of unionism in the 1970n and 1980s, when the post-oil shock world economy created a "crisis of unionism" through...

Labor Market Analysis of Engineers and Technical Workers

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Analysis of the Dynamics of the Job Creation Process in the United States and an Evaluation of Medium and Long Term Prospects: Public policy, entrepreneurship and the U.S. job creation experience

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Marketization of Production and the US-Europe Employment Gap

Women work much more in the US than in Germany and most other EU economies. We find that the US-German employment gap is not strongly related to cross...

Analysis of the Dynamics of the Job Creation Process in the United States and an Evaluation of Medium and Long Term Prospects: Factor prices, employment, and inequality in a decentralized labour market

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Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty, the Swedish Way

Abstract: Sweden has a remarkable record in reducing inequality and virtually eliminating poverty. This paper shows that: 1) Sweden achieved its egali...

Unionism Comes to the Public Sector

This paper argues that public sector labor relations is best understood in a framework that focuses on unions' ability to shift demand curves rather t...

The Economics of Trade Unions

A Study of a Research Field and Its Findings

The Economics of Trade Unions offers the first comprehensive review, analysis and evaluation of the empirical literature on the microeconomic effects ...

Analysis of the Dynamics of the Job Creation Process in the United States and an Evaluation of Medium and Long Term Prospects: The role of demographic factors in U.S. job creation-performance since 1970

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The Declining Economic Value of Higher Education and the American Social System

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Does Inequality in Skills Explain Inequality of Earnings Across Advanced Countries?

The distribution of earnings and the distribution of skills vary widely among advanced countries, with the major English-speaking countries, the US, U...

The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Local Economic Activity

An Examination of Retail Sales, 1929-1939

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Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance

UK Evidence

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Two Aspects of Black Labor Market Progress, 1870-1960

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Structured BASIC

A Guide to Good Programmming [i.e. Programming] Style for the British Broadcasting Corporation Micro

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