Richard B. Freeman’s scientific contributions

... 15 These governance institutions increase both the relative power of labor in bargains with the firm; and increase the channels for communication and the stake of labor in the firm. In the language of Freeman and Medoff (1984), then, co-determination increases the effectiveness detracts from the governance relationship that is the focus of this paper. ...

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International Trade and Income Distribution: The Effect of Corporate Governance Regimes

... The canonical exit, voice, and loyalty model by Albert Hirschman (1970) predicted that employees who are more loyal will opt to stay and voice discontent when they experience it. Freeman and Medoff (1984) applied Hirschman's model and found that unionism reduces turnover and permanent separations and raises job tenure by providing voice options as alternatives to exit. ...

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Why Don’t They Complain? The Social Determinants of Chinese Migrant Workers’ Grievance Behaviors

... Secondly, the stringency of labour regulation may affect the strategies adopted by unions, leading to an increase in their bargaining power when negotiating wages and prices. According to the monopoly union theory (Freeman and Medoff 1984), unions can leverage their power to restrict the adoption of new technologies, exploit their relatively strong position to extract rent, and consequently diminish the incentive for innovation. Thirdly, both labour regulation and unionisation can adversely influence employee engagement and effort. ...

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Technology, labour regulation, and nonparametric panel data modelling

... Now, we can see that addicts emerge as characterized in negative terms vis-à-vis this model as a whole: they are not only young, but in particular marginal in respect of occupational integration, the key-in particular for young men-to legitimately adjust to this model of 'affluence, consumption & achievement'. This point is backed also by sample surveys, conducted in Italy as well as in other Western countries (Blumberg et al ., 1974;Freeman and Medoff, 1982;Italy, Ministero di Grazia e Giustizia, 1983;Italy, Ministero dell'Interno, 1984;United Nations Social Defence Research Institute, 1984;Kandel and Yamaguchi, 1987;Pearson, 1987a;Switzerland, Office Fédéral de la Santé Publique, 1990; US, Substance Abuse etc., 1996 as to heroin users). They show, for instance, that even among detainees, who present on average a negative occupational record, the rate of addicts with a lasting work experience is less than half that of their fellow inmates (Italy, Ministero di Grazia e Giustizia, 1983). ...

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Structural Features, Diffusion of Addiction and Addicts' Social Traits: The Case of Italy

... Relying on the European Labour Force Survey data, Tielens & Vermandere (2007) found that only 5% of all Belgian students between 15 and 24 years old had worked during a reference week. However, being based on reports from the parents, this is likely to be an underestimation (Freeman & Medoff, 1982). Moreover, many students may not work every week or may concentrate their participation in a particular period. ...

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Compensating wage differentials in formal and informal jobs

... Collectivization is one of the significant points of divergence between Chinese and western HR practices. In the west, employee collectives serve as an outlet of their voice and enable balancing of HR practices (Freeman & Medoff, 1979). They serve as the principal mechanism for handling grievance and collective bargaining (Verma, 2005). ...

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Convergence divergence thesis through sectoral lens: A study of India and China