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Worker Needs and Voice in the US and the UK

Bryson, Alex - 2006

Workers have responded differently to declining union density in the US and UK. US workers have unfilled demand for unions whereas many UK workers free-ride at unionized workplaces. To explain this difference, we create a scalar measure of worker needs for representation and relate desire for...

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The Incentive for Working Hard : Explaining Hours Worked Differences in the U.S. and Germany

Bell, Linda A. - 2000

This paper seeks to explain the greater hours worked by Americans compared to Germans in terms of forward-looking labor supply responses to differences in earnings inequality between the countries. We argue that workers choose current hours of work to gain promotions and advance in the...

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

Freeman, Richard B. - 1991

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 … gaps narrowed, and age pay gaps increased in Canada as in the United States. The greater growth of the college graduate …

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

Freeman, Richard B. - 2005

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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What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?

Card, David - 2002

characterized earlier decades, and partially closed the gap in income per capita with France and Germany. These gains were mainly … decline of the UK relative to its historic competitors, Germany and France … evaluate the effects of these reforms we compare trends in macroeconomic outcomes in the UK relative to the US, Germany, and …

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Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance : UK Evidence

Conyon, Martin J. - 2001

This paper examines the use and consequences of shared compensation plans (profit sharing, profit related pay, SAYE schemes and company stock option plans) in a sample of UK workplaces and firms in the 1990s. The use of these plans has increased over time, in part in response to government...

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Did the Thatcher Reforms Change British Labour Performance?

Blanchflower, David G. - 1993

In this paper we evaluate the success of policies that were implemented in the 1980s that were designed to improve the workings of the UK labour market. Our primary conclusion is that the Thatcherite reforms succeeded in their goals of weakening union power; may have marginally increased...

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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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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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