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FREEMAN, P. AND ASPRAY, W. 1999. The Supply of Informatic Technology Workers in the United States. Computing Research Association, Washington, DC.
This report, on behalf of six computing-related professional societies, describes the state of the IT workforce in the United States. Topics include the political context, the definition of IT and IT-enabled workers, demands and constraints on the supply system, traditional and nontraditional suppliers of IT workers, quality of data, special issues about shortages of doctorates, women and under-represented minorities, and whether there is a workforce shortage.
FREEMAN, R. AND RODGERS, W. III.
To appear. The Weak Jobs Recovery: Whatever Happened to the Great American Jobs Machine? FRBNY Economic Policy Review. (Available at http://www.ny.frb.org/research/epr/forthcoming/freeman.pdf).
The authors consider the reasons for the weak jobs recovery as the United States comes out of its most recent recession, including the role of offshoring. They argue that the current recovery is the worst in recent US history for job creation. The slow growth of job creation is spread across many sectors not just those affected by the dot-com crash. Employment growth was down for populations sensitive to swings in the business cycle but not particularly sensitive to the dot-com phenomena. There are no particular geographical dimensions to the jobless recovery. A combination of sluggish wage growth and stagnant employment meant a moderate increase in poverty through 2003. They identify factors that affected the weak job recovery including the rise in the trade deficit, drop in foreign direct investment in the United States, rise in health care coverage for American workers, and tax cuts directed at the wealthy. The authors believe that something fundamental has changed that has caused this "jobless recovery". The United States main welfare state protection for workers is full employment which requires a tight labor market as in the late 1990's for the entire population to experience the benefit.
FRIEDMAN, T. L. 2005. It's a Flat World, After All. The New York Times (April 3).
This article on the implications of globalization for the United States and, in particular, the threats in technologically driven products and services from China and India, has received a great deal of attention. It serves better to explain the issues and threats of globalization than many of the more academic publications. The article is an adaptation from Friedman's recently published book, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.
FRIEDMAN, T. L. 2005. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, NY.
Description from the author's Web site. Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals, and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt.
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