Professor Richard Freeman

freeman@nber.org

• Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics, Harvard University
• Faculty Director of the Labour and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School
• Director of the Labour Studies Program, National Bureau of Economic Research/Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Projects
• Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets, London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance
• Faculty Co-chair of the Trade Union Program, Peterson Institute of International Economics

Richard is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science and currently serves as a Member of the AAAS Initiative for Science and Technology. He served on the study on Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the US. He also served on five panels of the National Academy of Sciences, including the Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists.

He received the Mincer Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Society of Labour Economics in 2006. In 2007 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labour Economics.

His research interests include the job market for scientists and engineers; the growth and decline of unions; the effects of immigration and trade on inequality; restructuring European welfare states; international labor standards; Chinese labor markets; transitional economies; youth labor market problems; crime; self-organizing non-unions in the labor market; employee involvement programs; income distribution and equity in the marketplace; and the effects of the internet on labor markets, social behavior and the economy.

He has published a number of books and over 300 articles on youth labor market problems, crime, higher education, trade unions, transitional economies, high-skilled labor markets, economic discrimination, labor standards and globalization, and income distribution and equity in the marketplace. His recent publications include What Workers Want (2007 2nd edition), Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization (2004), Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the 21st Century (2005), America Works: The Exceptional Labor Market (2007), and What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo American World (2007). His IZA Prize book is Making Europe Work: IZA Labor Economics Series (2009). Recent co-edited books are Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden (2009); Shared Capitalism: The Economic Issues (2009); International Comparison of the Structure of Wages (2009); and Science and Engineering Careers in the United States (2009).