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Publication One Ring to Rule Them All? Globalization of Knowledge and Knowledge Creation(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2013) Freeman, RichardThis paper directs attention at the globalization of knowledge and knowledge creation as the fundamental global driver of economic outcomes in today's information economy. It documents the globalization of knowledge and spread of scientific research from advanced to developing countries and argues that these developments undermine trade models in which advanced countries invariably have comparative advantage in high tech goods and services; determine the immigration of skilled workers; boosts labor standards; and influences incomes and inequality within and across countries. To the extent that knowledge is the key component in productivity and growth, its spread and creation is the one ring of globalization that rules the more widely studied patterns of trade, capital flows and immigration, per my title.Publication What Can Labor Organizations Do for US Workers When They Can't Do What Unions Used to Do?(Russell Sage Press, 2014) Freeman, RichardThe traditional union model of organizing workers through representation elections and bargaining with management for higher wages and benefits is in trend decline in the US. Private sector union density has plummeted while public sector collective bargaining faces continual attacks on its legitimacy. In such a setting the only sensible answer to the title question is that unions will not accomplish much unless they find ways to impact economic outcomes outside of collective bargaining. With unions unable to do for workers what they once did, some labor activists, social entrepreneurs, and unions have pioneered strategies and tactics that engage workers and improve labor well-being without collective contracts. Modern information and communication technology offers ways to scale up some of these innovations and help restore a balance between labor and capital in the American economic system.Publication Public Sector Unionism without Collective Bargaining(American Economic Association, 2013) Freeman, Richard; Han, Eunice S.Seven states in the US outlaw public sector collective bargaining, but employees in these states still join unions. Public sector workers join unions in other states even when unions are unable to obtain collective agreements. Using the Current Population Survey Merged Outgoing Rotation Group 2001-2010, we estimate union membership wage premium for public sector employees across states with different public sector bargaining laws. We find that unionism is associated with higher earnings even in states that outlaw public sector bargaining. Using the School and Staffing Survey for teachers, we find that a substantial and increasing proportion of school districts reach meet-and-confer agreements with teachers unions and that those agreements are associated with better retirement plans for teachers. The percentage of workers who join unions in a school district is associated with higher earnings and lower contract working days for union members in states that outlaw collective bargaining as well as in states that mandate bargaining, which suggests that density contributes to the success of unions in the absence of collective bargaining.Publication Employee Perceptions of Working Conditions and the Desire for Worker Representation in Britain and the US(Springer Science + Business Media, 2013) Bryson, Alex; Freeman, RichardThis paper explores the link between employee perceptions of working conditions and the desire for worker representation in Britain and the US. We find that the distribution of employee perceptions of poor working conditions is similar in Britain and the US; similar factors affect the number of perceived poor working conditions; and the perception of poor working conditions is strongly associated with the desire for union representation. The nature of workplaces, as opposed to employees’ characteristics, is the predominant factor determining employee perceptions of poor working conditions.Publication What Can Labor Organizations Do for US Workers When Unions Can't Do What Unions Used to Do?(Russell Sage Foundation, 2013) Freeman, RichardThe traditional union model of organizing workers through representation elections and bargaining with management for higher wages and benefits is in trend decline in the US. Private sector union density has plummeted while public sector collective bargaining faces continual attacks on its legitimacy. In such a setting the only sensible answer to the title question is that unions will not accomplish much unless they find ways to impact economic outcomes outside of collective bargaining. With unions unable to do for workers what they once did, some labor activists, social entrepreneurs, and unions have pioneered strategies and tactics that engage workers and improve labor well-being without collective contracts. Modern information and communication technology offers ways to scale up some of these innovations and help restore a balance between labor and capital in the American economic system.Publication Paying for Performance: Incentive Pay Schemes and Employees’ Financial Participation(Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012) Freeman, Richard; Bryson, Alex; Lucifora, Claudio; Pellizari, Michele; Perotin, VirginieWe present new comparable data on the incidence of performance pay schemes in Europe and the USA. We find that the percentage of employees exposed to incentive pay schemes ranges from around 10-15 percent in some European countries to over 40 percent in Scandinavian countries and the US. Individual pay and profit/gain sharing schemes are widely diffused, whereas share ownership schemes are much less common, particularly in Europe. We document a number of empirical regularities. Incentive pay is less common in countries with a higher share of small firms. Higher product and labour market regulation are associated with lower use of incentive pay. Capital market development is a necessary requirement for a wider diffusion of incentive pay, particularly sharing and ownership schemes. When we control for a large set of individual characteristics and company attributes, we find that the probability that a worker is covered by an incentive scheme is higher in large firms and in high-skilled occupations, while it is much lower for females.Publication Practitioner of the Dismal Science? Who, Me? Couldn’t Be!!(University of Cambridge Press, 2014) Freeman, RichardPublication Why and Wherefore of Increased Scientific Collaboration(2015) Freeman, Richard; Ganguli, Ina; Murciano-Goroff, RavivThis paper examines international and domestic collaborations using data from an original survey of corresponding authors and Web of Science data of articles that had at least one US coauthor in the fields of Particle and Field Physics, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology. The data allow us to investigate the connections among coauthors and the views of corresponding authors about the collaboration. We have four main findings. First, we find that US collaborations have increased across US cities as well as across international borders, with the nature of collaborations across cities resembling that across countries. Second, face-to-face meetings are important in collaborations: most collaborators first met working in the same institution and communicate often through meetings with coauthors from distant locations. Third, the main reason for most collaborations is to combine the specialized knowledge and skills of coauthors, but there are substantial differences in the mode of collaborations between small lab-based science and big science, where international collaborations are more prevalent. Fourth, for biotech, we find that citations to international papers are higher compared to papers with domestic collaborators only, but not for the other two fields. Moreover, in all three fields, papers with the same number of coauthors had lower citations if they were international collaborations. Overall, our findings suggest that all collaborations are best viewed from a framework of collaborations across space broadly, rather than in terms of international as opposed to domestic collaborative activity.Publication Collaboration: Strength in diversity(Nature Publishing Group, 2014) Freeman, Richard; Huang, WeiPublication What Can Latin America Learn from China's Labour Market Reforms?(University of Oxford Press, 2014) Freeman, RichardAnalysts typically see labour institutions in advanced countries as defining the ways in which developing economies can organize their labour markets. International agencies often pose the choice as one between a US-style decentralized market-driven system, or a European Union (EU)-style system in which industrial or regional unions bargain collectively with employer federations to produce agreements that governments may extend to all firms and workers in the sector. This chapter argues that developing country labour markets differ so much from those in advanced countries that developing countries can benefit more from the experience the labour markets in other developing countries rather than from the labour markets of advanced economies. The range and performance of labour institutions among advanced and developing countries is examined. Then China’s labour institutions and labour market reforms are compared to Latin American institutions and reforms.