This article examines the literary and cinematic antecedents of a cinema icon, The Mummy, produced by Universal Pictures in 1932. It looks at the sources in Victorian and Edwardian literature to...
A National Health Service, By Comparison (2008)
The National Health Service (NHS) has always been compared to other things, to other organisations and systems both at home and abroad. This paper explores those comparisons, beginning with the...
The Work the Document Does: Research, Policy, and Equity in Health (2006)
At the center of the politics of health equity, in many countries and circumstances, stands a signal report of research. This article is concerned with what might be described as the architecture of...
Skill compression, wage differentials, and employment: Germany vs the US (2001)
Freeman, Richard, Schettkat, Ronald
Germany's more compressed wage structure is widely viewed as the main cause of the German‐US difference in employment and unemployment, but part of the compression is due to Germany having a...
What if Congress Doubled R&D Spending on the Physical Sciences?
Richard Freeman, John Van Reenen
Many business, academic, and scientific groups have recommended that the Congress substantiallyincrease R&D spending in the near future. President Bush's American Competitiveness Initiative callsfor...
The European Labour Markets - Are European Labor Markets As Awful as All That?
Arbeitsmarkt, Arbeitsmarktpolitik, EU-Staaten, Labour market, Labour market policy, EU countries
The Labour Market in the New Information Economy
The extension of information and communication technologies to economic activity ischanging the labour market in important ways. This article shows that computerization anduse of the Internet are...
Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance: UK Evidence.
Martin J. Conyon, Richard Freeman
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...
David Blanchflower, Richard Freeman
This paper examines youth labor markets in OECD countries in the 1980s and 1990s, when the youth share of the population fell rapidly in most of these countries. Despite the decline in the youth...
Does It Fit? Drawing Lessons from Differing Labor Practices
We are attentive to labor practices in foreign lands but as the quotations above indicate, we are unsure about the lessons to be drawn from these practices. Will something that works `over there'...
Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty the Swedish Way
Sweden has a remarkable record in reducing inequality and virtually eliminating poverty. This paper shows that: 1) Sweden achieved its egalitarian income distribution and eliminated poverty largely...
What Direction for Labor Market Institutions in Eastern and Central Europe?
In this paper I examine the evolution of labor relations institutions during the initial phase of marketization in Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia and develop a model of changing support for...
Does Inequality in Skills Explain Inequality of Earnings Across Advanced Countries?
The distribution of earnings and the distribution of skills vary widely among advanced countries, with the major English-speaking countries, the US, UK, and Canada, having much greater inequality in...
Going different ways: Unionism in the US and other advanced OECD CountriesF
David Blanchflower, Richard Freeman
In this paper we compare the changing pattern of unionization in OECD countries, review existing evidence, and present new information on cross-country differences in union/non-union differentials in...
Marketization of Production and the US-Europe Employment Gap
Richard Freeman, Ronald Schettkat
Women work much more in the US than in Germany and most other EU economies. We find that theUS¿German employment gap is not strongly related to cross-country differences in the level of pay orsocial...
The Legacy of Communist Labor Relations
David Blanchflower, Richard Freeman
This paper uses the International Social Science Programme (ISSP) surveys for Hungary and a set of Western countries, supplemented with related survey data for East Germany, Poland, and Slovenia, to...
Doing It Right? The US Labour Market Response to the 1980s/1990s
In this paper I examine both the positive and negative aspects of the US labor market response to the economic world of the 1980s/1990s. I review the economic development that created difficulties in...