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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences.

Freeman, Richard B.; Schettkat, Ronald - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 219 (1999) 1+2, pp. 49-66

more than unemployment rates by skill levels and overall; German and US relative pay by level of skill was similar in 1970 …

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

Freeman, Richard B.; Bell, Linda A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Bigger than You Thought : China's Contribution to Scientific Publications and its Impact on the Global Economy

Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - 2019

China's advance to the forefront of scientific research is one of the 21st century's most surprising developments, with implications for a world where knowledge is arguably "the one ring that rules them all." This paper provides new estimates of China's contribution to global science that far...

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The Role of Wage and Skill Differences in US-German Employment Differences

Freeman, Richard B.; Schettkat, Ronald - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less regulated labour and product markets in the US. Based on the Comparative German American Structural Database and the International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of...

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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.; … - 2020

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 earnings found in micro level statistics in advanced...

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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.; … - 2020

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Labor market institutions around the world

Freeman, Richard B. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper documents the large cross-country differences in labor institutions that make them a candidate explanatory … these institutions on economic outcomes. It identifies three ways in which institutions affect economic performance: by … evidence shows that labor institutions reduce the dispersion of earnings and income inequality, which alters incentives, but …

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

Freeman, Richard B.; Rodgers, William M. - Harvard University <Cambridge, Mass.> / Department of …; … - 2005

[...]This paper examines the operation of the U.S. labor marketin the 2001 recovery. Because the United States is in the middleof the recovery, ours is a real-time analysis; thus, someconclusions could change if the recovery stalls or employmentgrows suddenly. For instance, since August 2003,...

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Evaluating the European view that the US has no unemployment problem

Freeman, Richard B. - 1988

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Are your wages set in Beijing?

Freeman, Richard B. - In: The journal of economic perspectives : EP ; a journal … 9 (1995) 3, pp. 15-32

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