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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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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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Planning for the "Expected Unexpected" : Work and Retirement in the U.S. After the COVID-19 Pandemic Shock

Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This chapter analyzes the implications of the unexpected 2020-2021 COVID-19 pandemic for work and retirement in the U.S. The pandemic induced the greatest loss of jobs in the shortest period of time in U.S. history. A slow economic recovery would surely have endangered work longer/retire later...

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Changes in the Age Distribution of Income in the United States, 1968-1984

Boskin, Michael J. - 1985

Among the interesting changes in the U.S. economy in recent years have been the substantial changes in the age distribution of income and its components. These changes are interesting in and of themselves, but also are an important background against which to interpret aggregate economic...

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Pubic Debt and U.S. Saving : A New Test of the Neutrality Hypothesis

Boskin, Michael J. - 1985

policy crowds out saving. Rather than attempting to reject specific saving models, empirical research on debt policy and …

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Does a Flexible Industry Wage Structure Increase Employment? : The U.S. Experience

Bell, Linda A. - 1985

This paper examines the flexibility of wages across industries inthe U.S. and seeks to determine the potential impact which changes in the industrial wage structure may have for employment. With regard to the flexibility of wages across industries, we find that the U.S., alone among the major...

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