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

Freeman, Richard B. - 2015

In the past two decades China leaped from bit player in global science and engineering (S&E) to become the world's largest source of S&E graduates and the second largest spender on R&D and second largest producer of scientific papers. As a latecomer to modern science and engineering, China...

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Labor Market Institutions Around the World

Freeman, Richard B. - 2010

The paper documents the large cross-country differences in labor institutions that make them a candidate explanatory factor for the divergent economic performance of countries and reviews what economists have learned about the effects of these institutions on economic outcomes. It identifies...

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Is a Great Labor Shortage Coming? Replacement Demand in the Global Economy

Freeman, Richard B. - 2007

This paper assesses the claim the the US faces an impending labor shortage due to the impending retirement of baby boomers and slow growth of the US work force, and that the country should orient labor market and educational policies to alleviate this prospective shortage. I find that this...

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The "Youth Problem" : Age or Generational Crowding?

Bloom, David E.; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

This paper attempts to distinguish between two alternative views of the labor market problems faced by young workers in a number of industrialized countries in the 1970s and early 1980s. The first view is that the low relative earnings and high unemployment rates experienced by these workers...

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Why is There a Youth Labor Market Problem?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

normal in the U.S. economy, but much is also directly related to a dearth of jobs. Demand forces, which have come to be …

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

Chi, Wei - 2012

China's emerging labor market was buffeted by changes in demand and supply and institutional changes in the last two … labor market has responded about as well as one could expect to the changes in the demand and supply factors and …

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

Freeman, Richard B. - 2013

The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to live up to expectations. The level and duration of...

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Population Growth, Labor Supply, and Employment in Developing Countries

Bloom, David E.; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

force participation rates; and gender differences in labor supply behavior. On the demand side, we describe and analyze the … markets, developing economies tended to shift between 1960 and 1980, from low-productivity agriculture to the higher … productivity service and industrial sectors and, albeit with some exceptions, to raise real income per capita. With respect to …

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

Freeman, Richard B.; Needels, Karen - 2022

This paper examines educational earnings differentials in Canada in the 1980s and compares changes in differentials to those in the United States. Our major finding is that the college/high school differential increased much less in Canada than in the United States. We also find that within...

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Crime and the Job Market

Freeman, Richard B. - 2021

This paper presents evidence on the relation among incarceration, crime, and the economic incentives to crime, ranging from unemployment to income inequality. It makes three points: 1) The U.S. has incarcerated an extraordinarily high proportion of men of working age overall, and among blacks....

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