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Harvard University
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Richard B. Freeman
Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Richard Freeman is one of the world’s leading labor economists. The Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Faculty co-Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, Dr. Freeman. Freeman is also Senior Research Fellow on Labour Markets at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. Freeman directs the Science and Engineering Workforce Project (SEWP) at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a network focused on the economics of science, technical, engineering, and IT labor which has received major long-term support from the Sloan Foundation. One of the most prolific social scientists of the postwar period, Freeman has published over 400 articles on a wide range of subjects including global labor standards; comparative labor markets, transitional economies; Chinese labor markets; income distribution and equity in the marketplace, the effects of immigration and trade on inequality; crime; the growth and decline of unions; the impact of the internet on labor movements and market democracy; restructuring European welfare states; employee involvement and related “shared capitalism” programs; and the job market for scientists and engineers. Freeman received the Mincer Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Society of Labor Economics in 2006. In 2007 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics. In 2011 he was appointed Frances Perkins Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
• Program Director, Labor Studies, National Bureau of Economic Research
• Co-Director, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
• Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University
• Assistant Professor of Economics, Univ. of Chicago
• Fairchild Distinguished Research Professor, California Institute of Technology
• Member of many National Academy of Sciences panels on economic issues and science work force issues.
B.A., Dartmouth College, 1964
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1969
Shared Capitalism at Work: Employee Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options (with Douglas Kruse & Joseph Blasi. Univ of Chicago Press for NBER, 2010)
Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden (with Birgitta Swedenborg & Robert Topel. Univ of Chicago Press for NBER, 2010)
Science and Engineering Careers in the United States (with Daniel Goroff. Univ of Chicago Press for NBER, 2009)
International Differences in the Business Practices & Productivity of Firms (with Kathryn Shaw. Univ of Chicago Press for NBER, 2009)
America Works: The Exceptional U.S. Labor Market (Russell Sage Foundation, 2007)
What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace (with Peter Boxall and Peter Haynes. Cornell Univ, NY: ILR Press, 2007)
What Workers Want (with Joel Rogers. Cornell Univ, NY: ILR Press, 2006 updated edition)
What Do Unions Do? (with James Medoff. NY: Basic Books, 1984)
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