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Seeking a Premier Economy : The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000

Card, David - 2007

In the 1980s and 1990s successive United Kingdom governments enacted a series of reforms to establish a more market-oriented economy, closer to the American model and further away from its Western European competitors. Today, the United Kingdom is one of the least regulated economies in the...

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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 impact of deunionization on the growth and dispersion of productivity and pay

Dosi, Giovanni; Freeman, Richard B.; Pereira, Marcelo C.; … - In: Industrial and corporate change 30 (2021) 2, pp. 377-408

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Seeking a Premier Economy : The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980-2000

Blundell, Richard (contributor); Blundell, Richard (ed.); … - 2007

impacted productivity, employment, and inequality. The questions asked are provocative: How did the United Kingdom manage to …

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The Weak Jobs Recovery : Whatever Happened to 'the Great American Jobs Machine'?

Freeman, Richard B.; Rodgers, William M. - 2005

A paper presented at the December 2004 conference "Labor Market Developments in the United States and Canada since 2000," cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Canadian Consulate General in New York, the Centre for the Study of Living Standards, and the New York Association...

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Why Not Africa?

Freeman, Richard B.; Lindauer, David L. - 2021

Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments in education as a prerequisite for more rapid growth is misplaced; that greater openness is far from sufficient to insure economic progress; that income inequality and urban bias...

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The Impact of Deunionization on the Growth and Dispersion of Productivity and Pay

Dosi, Giovanni; Freeman, Richard B.; Roventini, Andrea; … - 2021

This paper presents an Agent-Based Model (ABM) that seeks to explain the concordance of sluggish growth of productivity … and of real wages found in macro-economic statistics, and the increased dispersion of firm productivity and worker … and low productivity firms seeking to cut wages. The model highlights the antipodal competitive dynamics between a “winner …

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

Freeman, Richard Barry (contributor); … - 1982

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Working under different rules

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.) - 1994

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The fall in private pension coverage in the US

Bloom, David E.; Freeman, Richard B. - 1992

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