Word: nber
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Their findings fly in the face of most of the current arguments against unions and against the attitudes of industry management. In the course of their research, which took nearly eight years, Freeman and Medoff, both of whom are affiliated with the Cambridge-based National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), ported over countless government records on industry and personal histories of union members. Finally, they came up with the overwhelming verdict that unions are worth rescuing...
...book has moved the discussion about unions beyond where it's been for years, beyond anecdotes and on to facts," says Bernard E. Ichniowski '77, deputy director of NBER's labor studies program. "No longer will it be possible to use off-the-cuff anecdotes in the face of scientific facts," he adds...
That the book, which was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation to NBER and published by Basic Books, took eight years to produce colleagues call a testimony to the duo's thoroughness as researchers. "The book was four years overdue but we wanted to be careful and cautious," says Freeman, adding. "Research isn't a bunch of quickies...
Lawrence B. Lindsey, an associate of Auerbach's at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and an instructor for the summer version of Economics 10, called the capital gains reductions "particularly dramatic in regard to universities" and estimated that as much as 40 per cent of Harvard's income from private contributions could evaporate...
Coddington cited studies conducted by Thurow and Martin S. Feldstein, professor of Economics at Harvard and director of the NBER, that predict that the government could eventually eliminate those taxes on profits and thereby end any incentive for corporations to contribute to universities...