Richard B. Freeman

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1.

America's Loss is the World's Gain: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part 4

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2013
Vivek Wadhwa, AnnaLee Saxenian, Richard B. Freeman and G. Gereffi
Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, Pratt School of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley - School of Information, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Duke University - Department of Sociology - Director, Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness
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Immigration, entrepreneurship, India, China, workforce, labor migration, policy

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Education and Tech Entrepreneurship

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 30 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2013
Vivek Wadhwa, Richard B. Freeman and Ben A. Rissing
Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, Pratt School of Engineering, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Cornell University - School of Industrial and Labor Relations
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U.S. born, entrepreneur, key founder, high-tech, start-up, education, Ivy League

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Intellectual Property, the Immigration Backlog, and a Reverse Brain-Drain: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part III

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2014
Vivek Wadhwa, Guillermina Jasso, Ben A. Rissing, G. Gereffi and Richard B. Freeman
Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, Pratt School of Engineering, New York University (NYU) - Department of Sociology, Cornell University - School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Duke University - Department of Sociology - Director, Center on Globalization, Governance & Competitiveness and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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entrepreneur, immigrant, competitiveness, intellectual property

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Losing the World's Best and Brightest: America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Part V

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2014
Vivek Wadhwa, AnnaLee Saxenian, Richard B. Freeman and Alex Salkever
Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization, Pratt School of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley - School of Information, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Duke University - Pratt School of Engineering
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immigration, education, reverse migration, management, science, engineering, U.S. competitiveness

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Does Globalization of the Scientific/Engineering Workforce Threaten U.S. Economic Leadership?

NBER Working Paper No. w11457
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 02 Aug 2005
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Wages Around the World: Pay Across Occupations and Countries

NBER Working Paper No. w8058
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Dec 2000 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2010
Richard B. Freeman and Remco Oostendorp
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Vrije Universiteit
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Labor Market Institutions Around the World

NBER Working Paper No. w13242
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 09 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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The Anatomy of Employee Involvement and its Effects on Firms and Workers

NBER Working Paper No. w8050
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Dec 2000
Richard B. Freeman, Morris M. Kleiner and Cheri Ostroff
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs and Columbia University Teachers' College
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Motivating Employee-Owners in Esop Firms: Human Resource Policies and Company Performance

NBER Working Paper No. w10177
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Jan 2004 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2009
Douglas L. Kruse, Richard B. Freeman, Joseph Blasi, Robert Buchele, Adria Scharf, Loren Rodgers and Chris Mackin
Rutgers University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations - New Brunswick, Smith College - Department of Economics, University of Washington, Ownership Associates, Inc. and Ownership Associates, Inc.
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Can a Workplace Have an Attitude Problem? Workplace Effects on Employee Attitudes and Organizational Performance

Labour Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Mar 2011
Ann P. Bartel, Richard B. Freeman, Casey Ichniowski and Morris M. Kleiner
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Columbia Business School - Management and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
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Employee attitudes, workplace effects, performance

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The Two Faces of Unionism

NBER Working Paper No. w0364
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 Jan 2002
Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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On the Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Trade

NBER Working Paper No. w3761
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 19 Jun 2004
George J. Borjas, Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Creating a Bigger Pie? the Effects of Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Stock Options on Workplace Performance

NBER Working Paper No. w14230
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Aug 2008
Joseph Blasi, Richard B. Freeman, Chris Mackin and Douglas L. Kruse
Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations - New Brunswick, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Ownership Associates, Inc. and Rutgers University
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Why Not Africa?

NBER Working Paper No. w6942
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Feb 1999 Last Revised: 07 May 2000
Richard B. Freeman and David L. Lindauer
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Wellesley College - Department of Economics
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Job Satisfaction as an Economic Variable

NBER Working Paper No. w0225
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 08 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Trade Wars: The Exaggerated Impact of Trade in Economic Debate

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Trade Wars: The Exaggerated Impact of Trade in Economic Debate

NBER Working Paper No. w10000
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Sep 2003
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Trade Wars: The Exaggerated Impact of Trade in Economic Debate

The World Economy, Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 1-23, January 2004
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Mar 2004
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Employee Stock Purchase Plans: Gift or Incentive? Evidence from a Multinational Corporation

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8537
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 25 Oct 2014
Alex Bryson and Richard B. Freeman
UCL and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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share ownership, job search, quits, sickness absence, effort, gift exchange, incentives

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The Weak Jobs Recovery: Whatever Happened to 'the Great American Jobs Machine'?

Economic Policy Review, Vol. 11, No. 1, August 2005
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 23 Aug 2005
Richard B. Freeman and William M. Rodgers
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and College of William and Mary
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business cycle, recovery, fiscal policy, inequality, unemployment, employment, wages, the international economy

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Crime and the Employment of Disadvantaged Youths

NBER Working Paper No. w3875
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Is a Great Labor Shortage Coming? Replacement Demand in the Global Economy

NBER Working Paper No. w12541
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2007
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Can a Work Organization Have an Attitude Problem? the Impact of Workplaces on Employee Attitudes and Economic Outcomes

NBER Working Paper No. w9987
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 28 Sep 2003
Ann P. Bartel, Richard B. Freeman, Casey Ichniowski and Morris M. Kleiner
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Columbia Business School - Management and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
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Changes in Earnings Differentials in the 1980s: Concordance, Convergence, Causes, and Consequence

Levy Economics Institute Working Paper No. 61
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Dec 1999
McKinley L. Blackburn, David E. Bloom and Richard B. Freeman
University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business, Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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What Do Unions Do?: The 2004 M-Brane Stringtwister Edition

NBER Working Paper No. w11410
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Jul 2005 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Single Peaked vs. Diversified Capitalism: The Relation between Economic Institutions and Outcomes

NBER Working Paper No. w7556
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 05 May 2000 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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People Flows in Globalization

NBER Working Paper No. w12315
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Prize Structure and Information in Tournaments: Experimental Evidence

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 05 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 26 Nov 2011
Richard B. Freeman and Alexander M. Gelber
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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The Us Economic Model at Y2k: Lodestar for Advanced Capitalism?

NBER Working Paper No. w7757
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 19 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?

NBER Working Paper No. w8801
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 21 Feb 2002 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2010
David Card and Richard B. Freeman
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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The Labour Market in the New Information Economy

NBER Working Paper No. w9254
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Oct 2002
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Labour Market Institutions Without Blinders: The Debate Over Flexibility and Labour Market Performance

NBER Working Paper No. W11286
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Jun 2005
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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White Hats or Don Quixotes? Human Rights Vigilantes in the Global Economy

NBER Working Paper No. w8102
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 26 Jan 2001 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2010
Kimberly Ann Elliott and Richard B. Freeman
Center for Global Development and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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The Rising Tide Lifts...?

NBER Working Paper No. w8155
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 08 Mar 2001 Last Revised: 16 Sep 2001
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Will Unionism Prosper in Cyber-Space? The Promise of the Internet for Employee Organization

NBER Working Paper No. w8483
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 28 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2015
Wayne J. Diamond and Richard B. Freeman
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Trade Unions and Productivity: Some New Evidence on an Old Issue

NBER Working Paper No. w1249
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 16 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 08 Apr 2010
Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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The Incentive for Working Hard: Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. And Germany

NBER Working Paper No. w8051
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 16 Dec 2000 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2010
Linda A. Bell and Richard B. Freeman
Haverford College - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Crime and the Job Market

NBER Working Paper No. w4910
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 Jul 2000
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Area Economic Conditions and the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men in the 1990s Expansion

NBER Working Paper No. w7073
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Jul 1999 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2010
Richard B. Freeman and William M. Rodgers
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and College of William and Mary
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What Do Unions Do ... To Voting?

NBER Working Paper No. w9992
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 28 Sep 2003 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2003
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance: UK Evidence

NBER Working Paper No. w8448
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 26 Aug 2001 Last Revised: 23 Oct 2010
Martin J. Conyon and Richard B. Freeman
Lancaster University - Management School and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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A Fixed Effect Logit Model of the Impact of Unionism on Quits

NBER Working Paper No. w0280
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2001
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Why Do so Many Young American Men Commit Crimes and What Might We Do About it?

NBER Working Paper No. w5451
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Sep 1996 Last Revised: 09 May 2000
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Do Workers Gain by Sharing? Employee Outcomes Under Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Broad-Based Stock Options

NBER Working Paper No. w14233
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 18 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2010
Douglas L. Kruse, Richard B. Freeman and Joseph Blasi
Rutgers University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations - New Brunswick
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The Last American Shoe Manufacturers: Changing the Method of Pay to Survive Foreign Competition

NBER Working Paper No. w6750
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 28 Oct 1998 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2005
Richard B. Freeman and Morris M. Kleiner
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
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Minimum Wages in Puerto Rico: Textbook Case of a Wage Floor?

NBER Working Paper No. w3759
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Jun 2004
Alida Castillo Freeman and Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Does Inequality in Skills Explain Inequality in Earnings Across Advanced Countries?

NBER Working Paper No. w8140
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 22 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2001
Dan Devroye and Richard B. Freeman
affiliation not provided to SSRN and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Working for Nothing: The Supply of Volunteer Labor

NBER Working Paper No. w5435
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2013
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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An Economic Analysis of Works Councils

NBER Working Paper No. w4918
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 May 2000
Richard B. Freeman and Edward P. Lazear
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion Across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S

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It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion Across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S

NBER Working Paper No. w20447
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 08 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2014
Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, James C. Davis and Richard B. Freeman
Institute for Social Research, Norway, UCL, US Census Bureau and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion Across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S.

US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies Paper No. CES-WP- 14-33
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Nov 2014
Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, James C. Davis and Richard B. Freeman
Institute for Social Research, Norway, UCL, US Census Bureau and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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earnings; earnings inequality; productivity.

It's Where You Work: Increases in Earnings Dispersion Across Establishments and Individuals in the U.S

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8437
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Sep 2014
Erling Barth, Alex Bryson, James C. Davis and Richard B. Freeman
Institute for Social Research, Norway, UCL, US Census Bureau and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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earnings, earnings inequality, productivity

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Labor Regulations, Unions, and Social Protection in Developing Countries: Market Distortions or Efficient Institutions?

NBER Working Paper No. w14789
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 17 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2009
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Permanent Homelessness in America?

NBER Working Paper No. w2013
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 25 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman and Brian J. Hall
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and NOM Unit Head, Harvard Business School
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What, Me Vote?

NBER Working Paper No. w9896
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 17 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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What Does Global Expansion of Higher Education Mean for the Us?

NBER Working Paper No. w14962
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 19 May 2009
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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The 2004 Global Labor Survey: Workplace Institutions and Practices Around the World

NBER Working Paper No. w11598
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 26 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2010
Davin Chor and Richard B. Freeman
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Searching for the Effect of Immigration on the Labor Market

NBER Working Paper No. w5454
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 Jul 2000
George J. Borjas, Richard B. Freeman and Lawrence F. Katz
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Population Growth, Labor Supply, and Employment in Developing Countries

NBER Working Paper No. w1837
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 25 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2010
David E. Bloom and Richard B. Freeman
Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Crime and the Labor Market

NBER Working Paper No. w1031
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Apr 2004
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Does Linking Worker Pay to Firm Performance Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?

NBER Working Paper No. w17745
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2015
Douglas L. Kruse, Joseph Blasi and Richard B. Freeman
Rutgers University, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations - New Brunswick and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Where Do New Us-Trained Science-Engineering Phds Come from?

NBER Working Paper No. w10554
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Jun 2004
Richard B. Freeman, Emily Jin and Chia-Yu Shen
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), NBER-SEWP and NBER-SEWP
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Skill Compression, Wage Differentials and Employment: Germany vs. The Us

NBER Working Paper No. w7610
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 May 2000 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2001
Richard B. Freeman and Ronald Schettkat
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Wuppertal - Department of Economics
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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in Us-German Employment Differences

NBER Working Paper No. w7474
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 05 May 2000 Last Revised: 10 Apr 2001
Richard B. Freeman and Ronald Schettkat
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Wuppertal - Department of Economics
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Collaborating with People Like Me: Ethnic Co-Authorship within the Us

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Collaborating with People Like Me: Ethnic Co-Authorship within the Us

NBER Working Paper No. w19905
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 16 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2014
Richard B. Freeman and Wei Huang
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Collaborating with People Like Me: Ethnic Co-Authorship within the Us

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8432
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Sep 2014
Richard B. Freeman and Wei Huang
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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homophily, impact factor, citations

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The Declining Economic Position of Less-Skilled American Males

NBER Working Paper No. W3186
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 21 Nov 2007
McKinley L. Blackburn, David E. Bloom and Richard B. Freeman
University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business, Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Getting Together and Breaking Apart: The Decline of Centralised Collective Bargaining

NBER Working Paper No. w4464
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 19 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2014
Richard B. Freeman and Robert S. Gibbons
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School and Department of Economics
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Learning from Other Economies: The Unique Institutional and Policy Experiments Down Under

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Learning from Other Economies: The Unique Institutional and Policy Experiments Down Under

NBER Working Paper No. w12116
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 15 May 2006 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Learning from Other Economies: The Unique Institutional and Policy Experiments Down Under

Economic Record, Vol. 82, No. 257, pp. 195-206, June 2006
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 25 May 2006
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Optimal Inequality/Optimal Incentives: Evidence from a Tournament

NBER Working Paper No. w12588
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2009
Richard B. Freeman and Alexander Gelber
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Searching for the EU Social Dialogue Model

NBER Working Paper No. w12306
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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The Impact of Collective Bargaining: Illusion or Reality?

NBER Working Paper No. w0735
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 18 Aug 2004 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Marketization of Production and the Us-Europe Employment Gap

NBER Working Paper No. w8797
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Feb 2002 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2010
Richard B. Freeman and Ronald Schettkat
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Wuppertal - Department of Economics
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The Impact of Industrial Relations Legislation on British Union Density

NBER Working Paper No. w3167
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 07 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman and Jeffrey Pelletier
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Who Escapes? The Relation of Church-Going & Other Background Factors to the Socio-Economic Performance of Blk. Male Yths. From Inner-City Pvrty Tracts

NBER Working Paper No. w1656
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 Jan 2001 Last Revised: 13 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Low Wage Services: Interpreting the Us - German Difference

NBER Working Paper No. w7611
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 May 2000 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2010
Richard B. Freeman and Ronald Schettkat
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Wuppertal - Department of Economics
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Did the Thatcher Reforms Change British Labour Performance?

NBER Working Paper No. w4384
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 Apr 2000 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2010
David G. Blanchflower and Richard B. Freeman
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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73.

Variation in Educational Outcomes and Policies Across Countries and of Schools within Countries

NBER Working Paper No. w16293
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 24 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman, Stephen J. Machin and Martina Viarengo
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University College London - Department of Economics and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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74.

Contraction and Expansion: the Divergence of Private Sector and Public Sector Unionism in Tht U.S

NBER Working Paper No. w2399
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 24 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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75.

Why is There a Youth Labor Market Problem?

NBER Working Paper No. w0365
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 03 Jan 2002 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Spurts in Union Growth: Defining Moments and Social Processes

NBER Working Paper No. w6012
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 10 Jul 2000
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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77.

What Went Wrong? The Erosion of Relative Earnings and Employment Among Young Black Men in the 1980s

NBER Working Paper No. w3778
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 29 Mar 2001
John Bound and Richard B. Freeman
University of Michigan and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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78.

Relational Investing: The Worker's Perspective

NBER Working Paper No. w5436
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2008
Edward P. Lazear and Richard B. Freeman
Stanford Graduate School of Business and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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From the Webbs to the Web: The Contribution of the Internet to Reviving Union Fortunes

NBER Working Paper No. w11298
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Jun 2005 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2009
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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80.

How Elastic is the Demand for Labor?

NBER Working Paper No. w0309
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 26 May 2004
Kim B. Clark and Richard B. Freeman
Harvard Business School and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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81.

Unionism and the Dispersion of Wages

NBER Working Paper No. w0248
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 15 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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82.

Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty, the Swedish Way

NBER Working Paper No. w4945
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 16 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 28 Jul 2010
Anders Bjorklund and Richard B. Freeman
Stockholm University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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83.

One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation

NBER Working Paper No. w19301
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 10 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 08 Oct 2014
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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84.

The Same Yet Different: Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries

NBER Working Paper No. w13233
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 09 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman, Douglas L. Kruse and Joseph Blasi
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Rutgers University and Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations - New Brunswick
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85.

Worker Needs and Voice in the Us and the UK

NBER Working Paper No. w12310
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman and Alex Bryson
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and UCL
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86.

Bonuses and Employment in Japan

NBER Working Paper No. w1878
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman and Martin Weitzman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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87.

Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs

NBER Working Paper No. w12878
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 31 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2010
Wei Chi, Richard B. Freeman and Morris M. Kleiner
Kansas State University - Department of Economics, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
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88.

The Effect of Public Sector Labor Laws on Collective Bargaining, Wages, and Employment

NBER Working Paper No. w2284
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 07 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2008
Richard B. Freeman and Robert G. Valletta
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
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89.

The Effect of Trade Unionism on Fringe Benefits

NBER Working Paper No. w0292
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2002
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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90.

Adjusting to Really Big Changes: The Labor Market in China, 1989-2009

NBER Working Paper No. w17721
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 06 Jan 2012
Wei Chi, Richard B. Freeman and Li Hongbin
Tsinghua University, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Tsinghua University
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91.

How Much Has De-Unionisation Contributed to the Rise in Male Earnings Inequality?

NBER Working Paper No. w3826
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 15 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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92.

The Effect of Demographic Factors on Age-Earnings Profiles

NBER Working Paper No. w0316
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 07 Jul 2004
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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93.

Longitudinal Analyses of the Effects of Trade Unions

NBER Working Paper No. w1207
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Jun 2004
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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94.

Will Unionism Prosper in Cyberspace? The Promise of the Internet for Employee Organization

British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 40, pp. 569-596, 2002
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 04 Jan 2003
Wayne J. Diamond and Richard B. Freeman
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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95.

Economic Development and the Timing and Components of Population Growth

NBER Working Paper No. w2448
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 02 Jan 2001 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2010
David E. Bloom and Richard B. Freeman
Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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96.

The Impact of Collective Bargaining: Can the New Facts Be Explained by Monopoly Unionism?

NBER Working Paper No. w0837
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 07 Jan 2008
Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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97.

Why Don't More Puerto Rican Men Work? The Rich Uncle (Sam) Hypothesis

NBER Working Paper No. w11751
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 23 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2010
María E. Enchautegui and Richard B. Freeman
University of Puerto Rico - Departamento de Economía and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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98.

Supporting "the Best and Brightest" in Science and Engineering: Nsf Graduate Research Fellowships

NBER Working Paper No. w11623
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 20 Nov 2005 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2010
Richard B. Freeman, Tanwin Chang and Hanley Chiang
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
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99.

Unionism Comes to the Public Sector

NBER Working Paper No. w1452
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 05 Jul 2004
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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100.

Union Maids: Unions and the Female Workforce

NBER Working Paper No. w1652
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 05 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman and Jonathan S. Leonard
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of California, Berkeley - Finance Group
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101.

Elasticities of Demand for Educated Labor and Elasticities of Supply of Educated Labor

NBER Working Paper No. w1042
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Apr 2004
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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102.

The Exit-Voice Tradeoff in the Labor Market: Unionism, Job Tenure, Quits

NBER Working Paper No. w0242
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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103.

Changes in Earnings Differentials in the 1980s: Concordance, Convergence, Causes, and Consequences

NBER Working Paper No. w3901
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 30 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2010
McKinley L. Blackburn, David E. Bloom and Richard B. Freeman
University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business, Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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104.

The Legacy of Communist Labor Relations

NBER Working Paper No. w4740
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Jun 2000 Last Revised: 02 Aug 2000
David G. Blanchflower and Richard B. Freeman
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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105.

Unionism, Price-Cost Margins, and the Return to Capital

NBER Working Paper No. w1164
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 May 2000 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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106.

Going Different Ways: Unionism in the U.S. And Other Advanced O.E.C.D. Countries

NBER Working Paper No. w3342
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 15 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2010
David G. Blanchflower and Richard B. Freeman
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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107.

How Do Public Sector Wages and Employment Respond to Economic Conditions

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How Do Public Sector Wages and Employment Respond to Economic Conditions

NBER Working Paper No. w1653
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 26 May 2004 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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How Do Public Sector Wages and Employment Respond to Economic Conditions

NBER Working Paper No. w1653
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 11 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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108.

Do Unions Make Enterprises Insolvent?

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Do Unions Make Enterprises Insolvent?

NBER Working Paper No. w4797
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Oct 2001 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman and Morris M. Kleiner
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
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Do Unions Make Enterprises Insolvent?

Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 1999
Posted: 10 May 1999
Richard B. Freeman and Morris M. Kleiner
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs

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109.

Share Capitalism and Worker Wellbeing

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8724
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 30 Dec 2014
Alex Bryson, Andrew Clark, Richard B. Freeman and Colin P. Green
UCL, Paris School of Economics (PSE), National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Lancaster University - Department of Economics
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compensation methods, wages, job satisfaction, working conditions

110.

Fighting for Other Folks' Wages: The Logic and Illogic of Living Wage Campaigns

Industrial Relations, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 14-31, January 2005
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Dec 2004
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Implications of the Changing U.S. Labor Market for Higher Education

NBER Working Paper No. w0697
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 18 Aug 2004
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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112.

The Changing Economic Value of Higher Education in Developed Economies: A Report to the O.E.C.D

NBER Working Paper No. w0820
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 06 Jul 2004
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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113.

On the Divergence in Unionism Among Developed Countries

NBER Working Paper No. w2817
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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114.

Dunning Delinquent Dads: the Effects of Child Support Enforcement on Child Support Receipt by Never Married Women

NBER Working Paper No. w6664
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Nov 1998 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2010
Richard B. Freeman and Jane Waldfogel
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Columbia University - School of Social Work
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115.

How Does Declining Unionism Affect the American Middle Class and Intergenerational Mobility?

NBER Working Paper No. w21638
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 19 Oct 2015
Richard B. Freeman, Eunice Han, David Madland and Brendan Duke
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of Utah - College of Social & Behavioral Sciences - Department of Economics, Center for American Progress and Center for American Progress
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Evaluating the Connection between Social Protection and Economic Flexib Ility

NBER Working Paper No. w4338
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Aug 2007
Rebecca M. Blank and Richard B. Freeman
U.S. Department of Commerce and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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117.

Employer Behavior in the Face of Union Organizing Drives

NBER Working Paper No. w2805
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 22 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2010
Richard B. Freeman and Morris M. Kleiner
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
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118.

Helping Workers Online and Offline: Innovations in Union and Worker Organization Using the Internet

NBER Working Paper No. w13850
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 21 Mar 2008
Richard B. Freeman and M. Marit Rehavi
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of British Columbia
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119.

Evaluating the European View that the Us Has No Unemployment Problem

NBER Working Paper No. w2562
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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120.

Unions, Pensions, and Union Pension Funds

NBER Working Paper No. w1226
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 05 Jul 2004
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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121.

Low-Cost Student Labor: The Use and Effects of the Subminimum Wage Provisions for Full-Time Students

NBER Working Paper No. w0765
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 19 Aug 2004 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman, Wayne B. Gray and Casey Ichniowski
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Clark University - Department of Economics and Columbia Business School - Management
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122.

The Evolution of the American Labor Market 1948-1980

NBER Working Paper No. w0446
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 09 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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123.

Collective Bargaining Laws and Threat Effects of Unionism in the Determination of Police Compenstation

NBER Working Paper No. w1578
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 06 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2014
Richard B. Freeman, Casey Ichniowski and Harrison Lauer
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Columbia Business School - Management and Independent
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124.

Failing the Test? The Flexible U.S. Job Market in the Great Recession

NBER Working Paper No. w19587
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Nov 2013
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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125.

The Internationalization of the U.S. Labor Market

NBER Working Paper No. w3321
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2010
John M. Abowd and Richard B. Freeman
U.S. Census Bureau and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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126.

Skill Differentials in Canada in an Era of Rising Labor Market Inequality

NBER Working Paper No. w3827
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Jul 2007
Richard B. Freeman and Karen Needels
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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127.

Labor Market Institutions, Constraints, and Performance

NBER Working Paper No. w2560
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 06 Apr 2007
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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128.

The Effect of the Union Wage Differential on Management Opposition and Union Organizing Success

NBER Working Paper No. w1748
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 07 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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129.

Public Policy and Employment Discrimination in the U.S

NBER Working Paper No. w0928
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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130.

Black Economic Progress after 1964: Who Has Gained and Why?

NBER Working Paper No. w0282
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 15 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2002
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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An Empirical Analysis of the Fixed Coefficient 'Manpower Requirements' Model, 1960-1970

NBER Working Paper No. w0315
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Feb 2001
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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132.

The Percent Organized Wage (Pow) Relationship for Union and for Nonunionworkers

NBER Working Paper No. w0305
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 16 Jul 2004
Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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Does a Flexible Industry Wage Structure Increase Employment?: the U.S. Experience

NBER Working Paper No. w1604
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Apr 2004
Linda A. Bell and Richard B. Freeman
Haverford College - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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134.

Career Patterns of College Graduates in a Declining Job Market

NBER Working Paper No. w0750
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Apr 2004 Last Revised: 22 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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135.

Union Wage Practices and Wage Dispersion within Establishments

NBER Working Paper No. w0752
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Jun 2001 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Employment and Earnings of Disadvantaged Young Men in a Labor Shortage Economy

NBER Working Paper No. w3444
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 Dec 2000 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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137.

China's “Great Leap Forward” in Science and Engineering

NBER Working Paper No. w21081
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2015
Richard B. Freeman and Wei Huang
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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The Impact of New Unionization on Wages and Working Conditions: a Longitudinal Study of Establishments Under Nlrb Elections

NBER Working Paper No. w2563
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman and Morris M. Kleiner
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
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139.

What! Another Minimum Wage Study?

NBER Working Paper No. w0878
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 08 Mar 2007
Mary Eccles and Richard B. Freeman
affiliation not provided to SSRN and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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140.

The "Youth Problem": Age or Generational Crowding?

NBER Working Paper No. w1829
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 05 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2010
David E. Bloom and Richard B. Freeman
Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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141.

The Twin Track Model of Employee Voice: An Anglo-American Perspective on Union Decline and the Rise of Alternative Forms of Voice

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11223
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 27 Dec 2017
Alex Bryson, Richard B. Freeman, Rafael Gomez and Paul Willman
UCL, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of Toronto - Centre For Industrial Relations and University of Oxford - Said Business School
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worker voice, unionisation, collective bargaining, experience good, cost-disease, transaction costs

142.

Troubled Workers in the Labor Market

NBER Working Paper No. w0816
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 08 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 26 Sep 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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143.

The Fall in Private Pension Coverage in the U.S

NBER Working Paper No. w3973
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 07 Aug 2007
David E. Bloom and Richard B. Freeman
Harvard University - T.H. Chan School of Public Health and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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144.

Crumbling Pillar? Declining Union Density in Japan

NBER Working Paper No. w2963
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Dec 2006 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman and Marcus E. Rebick
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Oxford - Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
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145.

What Directions for Labor Market Institutions in Eastern and Central Europe?

NBER Working Paper No. w4209
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 14 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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146.

New Estimates of the Industrial Locus of Unionism in the United States

NBER Working Paper No. w0273
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Jun 2004
Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Harvard University - Department of Economics
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147.

Weathering the Great Recession: Variation in Employment Responses by Establishments and Countries

NBER Working Paper No. w22432
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 25 Jul 2016
Erling Barth, James C. Davis, Richard B. Freeman and Sari Pekkala Kerr
Institute for Social Research, Norway, US Census Bureau, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Wellesley College
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148.

Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration

NBER Working Paper No. w19819
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 18 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2014
Richard B. Freeman, Ina Ganguli and Raviv Murciano-Goroff
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of Massachusetts at Amherst - College of Social and Behavioral Sciences - Department of Economics and Stanford University - Department of Economics
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The Effect of Unionism on Worker Attachment to Firms

NBER Working Paper No. w0400
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 22 Feb 2001 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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150.

The Effects of Scientists and Engineers on Productivity and Earnings at the Establishment Where They Work

NBER Working Paper No. w23484
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 13 Jun 2017
Erling Barth, James C. Davis, Richard B. Freeman and Andrew Wang
Institute for Social Research, Norway, US Census Bureau, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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151.

Why Do Americans and Germans Work Different Hours?

NBER Working Paper No. w4808
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 30 Aug 2010
Linda A. Bell and Richard B. Freeman
Haverford College - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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152.

To Join or Not to Join? Factors Influencing Employee Share Plan Membership in a Multinational Corporation

NBER Working Paper No. w16292
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 24 Aug 2010
Alex Bryson and Richard B. Freeman
UCL and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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153.

The Last American Shoe Manufacturers: Decreasing Productivity and Increasing Profits in the Shift from Piece Rates to Continuous Flow Production

Industrial Relations, Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 307-330, April 2005
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Mar 2005
Richard B. Freeman and Morris M. Kleiner
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
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154.

Worker Responses to Shirking Under Shared Capitalism

NBER Working Paper No. w14227
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 18 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2010
Richard B. Freeman, Douglas L. Kruse and Joseph Blasi
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Rutgers University and Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations - New Brunswick
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155.

How Does Shared Capitalism Affect Economic Performance in the UK?

NBER Working Paper No. w14235
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 18 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2008
Alex Bryson and Richard B. Freeman
UCL and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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156.

Should We Organize? Effects of Faculty Unionism on Academic Compensation

NBER Working Paper No. w0301
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 Jul 2004
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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157.

Bigger than You Thought: China's Contribution to Scientific Publications

NBER Working Paper No. w24829
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 16 Jul 2018
Qingnan Xie and Richard B. Freeman
Nanjing University of Science and Technology and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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158.

Marketization of Household Production and the Eu-Us Gap in Work

Economic Policy, Vol. 20, No. 41, pp. 6-50, January 2005
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 Feb 2005
Richard B. Freeman and Ronald Schettkat
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Wuppertal - Department of Economics
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159.

How Does China's New Labor Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?

NBER Working Paper No. w19254
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Jul 2013
Richard B. Freeman and Xiaoying Li
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU)
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160.

Have Black Labor Market Gains Post-1964 Been Permanent or Transitory?

NBER Working Paper No. w0751
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Aug 2004 Last Revised: 23 Jul 2010
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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161.

Complementarity of Shared Compensation and Decision-Making Systems: Evidence from the American Labor Market

NBER Working Paper No. w14272
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 27 Aug 2008
Arindrajit Dube and Richard B. Freeman
University of California, Berkeley - Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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162.

Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in China

NBER Working Paper No. w24157
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 03 Jan 2018
Richard B. Freeman, Wenquan Liang, Ran Song and Christopher Timmins
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Harvard University and Duke University - Department of Economics
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163.

Jobfinding and Wages When Longrun Unemployment is Really Long: the Case of Spain

NBER Working Paper No. w3409
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 28 Apr 2011
Alfonso Alba-Ramirez and Richard B. Freeman
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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164.

Immigration, International Collaboration, and Innovation: Science and Technology Policy in the Global Economy

NBER Working Paper No. w20521
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 30 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 16 Oct 2014
Richard B. Freeman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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165.

Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives

NBER Working Paper No. w14014
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 May 2008 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2010
Anders Bjorklund and Richard B. Freeman
Stockholm University and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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166.

Augmenting the Human Capital Earnings Equation with Measures of Where People Work

NBER Working Paper No. w22512
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Aug 2016
Erling Barth, James C. Davis and Richard B. Freeman
Institute for Social Research, Norway, US Census Bureau and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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167.

Wal-Mart Innovation and Productivity: A Viewpoint

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'conomique, Vol. 44, Issue 2, pp. 486-508, 2011
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 May 2011
Richard B. Freeman, Alice Orcutt Nakamura, Leonard I. Nakamura, Marc Prudhomme and Amanda Pyman
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), University of Alberta - School of Business, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Monash Business School
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168.

Do Broad‐Based Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing and Stock Options Help the Best Firms Do Even Better?

British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 54, Issue 1, pp. 55-82, 2016
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 Feb 2016
Joseph Blasi, Richard B. Freeman and Douglas L. Kruse
Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations - New Brunswick, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Rutgers University
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169.

Adoption and Termination of Employee Involvement Programs

LABOUR, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 45-62, 2011
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 01 Mar 2011
Wei Chi, Richard B. Freeman and Morris M. Kleiner
Tsinghua University - School of Economics and Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
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170.

How Does China's New Labour Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?

British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 53, Issue 4, pp. 711-735, 2015
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 18 Nov 2015
Xiaoying Li and Richard B. Freeman
Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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171.

School and Family Effects on Educational Outcomes Across Countries

Economic Policy, Vol. 29, Issue 79, pp. 395-446, 2014
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 26 Jul 2014
Richard B. Freeman and Martina Viarengo
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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172.

Comparative Perspectives and Policy Learning in the World of Health Care

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, 2005
Posted: 10 Oct 2005
Theodore R. Marmor, Richard B. Freeman and Kieke Okma
Yale School of Management, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Independent

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173.

Growing into Work

CES Working Paper 108
Posted: 29 Apr 1998
David G. Blanchflower and Richard B. Freeman
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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174.

The Attitudinal Legacy of Communist Labor Relations

INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR RELATIONS REVIEW, April 1997
Posted: 06 Dec 1996
David G. Blanchflower and Richard B. Freeman
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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