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Richard B. Freeman

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The economics of crime

RB Freeman - Handbook of labor economics, 1999 - Elsevier
Crime is a major activity in the US, with implications for poverty and the allocation of public
and private resources. The economics of crime focuses on the effect of incentives on …

Demand for education

RB Freeman - Handbook of labor economics, 1986 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary The human capital “revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s turned the
previously peripheral topic of demand for education into a major area of research for labor …

Labor regulations, unions, and social protection in developing countries: Market distortions or efficient institutions?

RB Freeman - Handbook of development economics, 2010 - Elsevier
This chapter reviews what economists have learned about the impact of labor market
institutions, defined broadly as government regulations and union activity on labor outcomes …

What do unions do

RB Freeman, JL Medoff - Indus. & Lab. Rel. Rev., 1984 - HeinOnline
FOR several reasons, What Do Unions Do? 1 by Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff
is the most significant book on the topic in recent years. The theses are provocative …

Model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) and allocation of donor livers

R Wiesner, E Edwards, R Freeman, A Harper, R Kim… - Gastroenterology, 2003 - Elsevier
Background & Aims: A consensus has been reached that liver donor allocation should be
based primarily on liver disease severity and that waiting time should not be a major …

Job satisfaction as an economic variable

RB Freeman - 1977 - nber.org
The purpose of this paper is to examine these concerns and evaluate the use of job
satisfaction (and other subjective variables) in labor market analysis. The main theme is that …

How much do immigration and trade affect labor market outcomes?

GJ Borjas, RB Freeman, LF Katz, J DiNardo… - Brookings papers on …, 1997 - JSTOR
IMMIGRATION AND TRADE-particularly with less developed countries (LDCs)-have
become more significant to the US economy since the 1960s than they were earlier in the …

Are your wages set in Beijing?

RB Freeman - Journal of Economic perspectives, 1995 - aeaweb.org
The economic troubles of less-skilled workers in the United States. and OECD-Europe
during a period of rising manufacturing imports from third world countries has created a …

[BOOK][B] What workers want

RB Freeman, J Rogers - 2006 - books.google.com
Praise for the first edition:" This very valuable book reports the results of a large-scale and
complex survey aimed at understanding the preferences of employees regarding workplace …

Working for nothing: The supply of volunteer labor

RB Freeman - Journal of labor economics, 1997 - journals.uchicago.edu
Volunteer activity is work performed without monetary recompense. This article shows that
volunteering is a sizeable economic activity in the United States, that volunteers have high …