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Does Inequality in Skills Explain Inequality in Earnings Across Advanced Countries?

Devroye, Dan - 2001

The distribution of earnings and the distribution of skills vary widely among advanced countries, with the major English-speaking countries, the US, UK, and Canada, having much greater inequality in both earnings and skills than continental European Union countries. This raises the possibility...

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Wages Around the World : Pay Across Occupations and Countries

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

power parity. Cross-country differences in pay for comparable work increased, despite increased world trade. 3. The … principal forces that affect the occupational wage structure around the world are the level of gross domestic product per capita …

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Occupational Skill Premia around the World

Kunst, David - 2020

changes in the world of work …

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

Bryson, Alex - 2010

Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidize the price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a new survey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerable variation in joining among...

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Labor Market Institutions Around the World

Freeman, Richard B. - 2007

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

Freeman, Richard B. - 2007

This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work...

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

Freeman, Richard B. - 2006

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

Freeman, Richard B. - 2006

This paper argues that detailed studies of particular economies, such as Bob Gregory's work on Australia, are relevant to all of economics. The paper builds on the concept of a model species from biology to develop the notion of a model economy -- one whose experiences illuminate fundamental...

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The 2004 Global Labor Survey : Workplace Institutions and Practices Around the World

Chor, Davin - 2005

respectively to the Fraser Institute and World Economic Forum reports, the GLS and the labor market components of the economic … countries around the world, covering issues such as freedom of association, the regulation of work contracts, employee benefits …) and competitiveness (World Economic Forum) …

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

Freeman, Richard B. - 2005

(1) The U.S. share of the world's science and engineering graduates is declining rapidly as European and Asian …

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