The Work Goes On: An Oral History of Industrial Relations and Labor Economics with Princeton’s Orley Ashenfelter
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Richard Freeman, who holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University, joins the podcast to talk to Princeton’s Orley Ashenfelter about the early influences of Martin Segal and John Dunlap on his career, who pursues careers in STEM and why, and whether we can expect inequality at the bottom of the wage distribution, which shrunk during the pandemic for the first time in recent history, to continue its decline. Read a transcript of this interview: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2023-02/006-TWGO-Richard%20Freeman%20podcast%20transcript_0.pdf For more details about this episode visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/richard-freeman-2023
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