Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard University Trade Union Program. He is also director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, and visiting professor at the London School of Economics
He
has published over 300 articles dealing with a wide range of research
interests including 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; Chinese labor markets;
transitional economies; youth labor market problems; crime; self-organizing
non-unions in the labor market; employee involvement programs; and income
distribution and equity in the marketplace. He is currently directing
the NBER / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Project (with Daniel
Goroff), and an LSE research program on the effects of the internet
on labor markets, social behavior and the economy.
Richard Freeman