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Creating and Connecting US and China Science : Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers

Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of … China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research … experience and returned to do their research in China ("returnee"). Analyzing 2018 Scopus data on research papers, we estimate …

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Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration

Freeman, Richard B. - 2014

This paper examines international and domestic collaborations using data from an original survey of corresponding authors and Web of Science data of articles that had at least one US coauthor in the fields of Particle and Field Physics, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Biotechnology and...

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Simulating Endogenous Global Automation

Benzell, Seth G.; Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; LaGarda, Guillermo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper develops a 17-region, 3-skill group, overlapping generations, computable general equilibrium model to evaluate the global consequences of automation. Automation, modeled as capital- and high-skill biased technological change, is endogenous with regions adopting new technologies when...

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

Freeman, Richard B. - 2015

universities and research but was improving both through the mid-2010s. This paper presents evidence that China's leap benefited … from the deep educational and research links it developed with the US. The findings suggest that global mobility of people …

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Robots Are Us : Some Economics of Human Replacement

Benzell, Seth G. - 2015

Will smart machines replace humans like the internal combustion engine replaced horses? If so, can putting people out of work, or at least out of good work, also put the economy out of business? Our model says yes. Under the right conditions, more supply produces, over time, less demand as the...

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Working under different rules

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.) - 1994

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The Black youth employment crisis

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Holzer, Harry J. (contributor) - 1986

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Pensions in the American economy

Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; Smith, Daniel Eric; Smith, Daniel E. - 1983

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The youth labor market problem : its nature, causes, and consequences

Freeman, Richard Barry (contributor); … - 1982

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The US Economic Model at Y2K : Lodestar for Advanced Capitalism?

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

The 1990s economic performance of the US suggests that the country may have the right mix of institutions and policies to be the peak capitalist economy in the new information economy. This paper develops criterion for judging peak status and examines whether the US fulfills these criterion. The...

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