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Population Growth, Labor Supply, and Employment in Developing Countries

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

The economies of the less developed countries are about to face perhaps the greatest challenge in their histories: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment. In terms of absolute magnitude, this challenge has...

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How Do Public Sector Wages and Employment Respond to Economic Conditions

Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

This paper examines the changes over time in public sector wages and employment relative to private sector wages and employment using data from surveys of establishments and individuals. The paper finds that:(1) The pay of public sector workers relative to private sector workers varies greatly...

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How Do Public Sector Wages and Employment Respond to Economic Conditions

Freeman, Richard B. - 2010

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Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty, the Swedish Way

Björklund, Anders; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

Sweden has a remarkable record in reducing inequality and virtually eliminating poverty. This paper shows that: 1) Sweden achieved its egalitarian income distribution and eliminated poverty largely because of its system of earnings and income determination, not because of the homogeneity of the...

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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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From the Webbs to the Web : The Contribution of the Internet to Reviving Union Fortunes

Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

This paper shows that in the 2000s unions in the UK and US made innovative use of the Internet to deliver union services and move toward open source unions better suited for the modern world than traditional union structures. In contrast to analysts who see unions as being on an inexorable path...

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Unions, Pensions, and Union Pension Funds

Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

This paper examines the role of trade unions as determinants of: pension coverage, expenditures by firms for pensions; the provisions of pension plans; and pension fund investments. It also examines the impact of union pensions on the age-earnings profile of union workers. It has four basic...

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Working for Nothing : The Supply of Volunteer Labor

Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

Volunteer activity is work performed without monetary recompense. This paper shows that volunteering is a sizeable economic activity in the U.S.; that volunteers have high skills and opportunity costs of time; that standard labor supply explanations of volunteering account for only a minor part...

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

Freeman, Richard B.; Ichniowski, Casey; Lauer, Harrison - 2022

This study examines the effect of public sector unions on compensation packages. The model of the compensation determination process incorporates distinctive institutional aspects of public sector labor relations, particularly the differences in collective bargaining laws across states. The...

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Skill Compression, Wage Differentials and Employment : Germany vs. The Us

Freeman, Richard B.; Schettkat, Ronald - 2022

Germany's more compressed wage structure is taken by many analysts as the main cause of the German-US difference in job creation. We find that the US has a more dispersed level of skills than Germany but even adjusted for skills, Germany has a more compressed wage distribution than the US. The...

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The Rising Tide Lifts...?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2022

To what extent did the economic boom of the 1990s-early 2000s improve the well-being of persons in the bottom rungs of the income distribution? This paper uses a pooled cross-state time series regression design to estimate the effect of earnings, unemployment, and inequality on poverty in the...

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