Books by Richard B. Freeman

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 governance and their attitudes toward the three key institutions in...

Examines the phenomenon of widespread differences in managerial practices across firms, establishments within firms, and countries. This work combines qualitative and quantitative insider analysis of business practices such as the incentive pay and quality control, revealing the elements that determine which practices are adopted and why.

Once heralded as a model welfare state, Sweden is now in transition since its economic plunge in the early 1990s. This volume examines Sweden's economic problems from a US perspective, exploring such diverse topics as income equalization, welfare and tax policy, wage determination and unemployment.

Focusing on labour-market institutions, and the supply-and-demand forces that affect wages, these papers compare patterns of earnings inequality and pay differentials in a range of different countries. Varying labour-market systems, and education/training programmes are examined.

Provides an assessment of how effectively labor market institutions are responding to the decline of private sector unions. This book also provides case studies of labor market institutions and various directions for existing institutions. It presents the story of workers and institutions searching for ways to represent labor.