Richard B. Freeman

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Freeman in September 2014

Richard Barry Freeman (born June 29, 1943 in Newburgh , New York ) is an American economist who particularly excelled in the field of labor economics .

Career, research and teaching

Freeman studied until 1964 at Dartmouth College , which he left with the academic degree of a Bachelor of Arts in the direction of Harvard University . There he graduated in 1969 as a Ph.D. with the work "The Labor Market for College Manpower", which was overseen by the later Minister of Labor John Thomas Dunlop .

Freeman worked as an assistant professor at Yale University , the University of Chicago and Harvard University, where he was also an associate professor . He also taught and researched at Caltech . He later took over the Herbert Ascherman Chair of Economics at Harvard University. He visited the London School of Economics and McMaster University, among others .

Freeman served on various boards and committees of the National Academy of Sciences , and was program director for labor studies at the National Bureau of Economic Research . In 1998/99 he was President of the Society of Labor Economists for one year . He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . He is a Fellow of the American Economic Association , between 2006 and 2013 he was a Research Fellow at the Bonn Research Institute on the Future of Work . He also acted as a consultant for various institutions and bodies, including the World Bank , the US Department of Labor, the Spanish , Venezuelan and Sri Lankan governments.

Freeman's work and research focus is in the field of labor economics on the labor market , on the one hand in particular with regard to scientists and engineers and on the other hand with regard to China, the economic theory of trade unions , the development and modernization of European welfare states , income distribution on the labor market and the influence of migration and trade on inequality.

Freeman has received several awards and honors for his work. Among other things, he received the Jacob Mincer Prize in 2006 and the IZA Prize in Labor Economics in 2007 .

Works

The following list shows some of the books published by Freeman, and he has also written numerous magazine articles and working papers.

  • The Market for College Trained Manpower (Thesis, 1971)
  • Labor Economics (1972, second edition 1979)
  • Labor Market Analysis of Engineers and Technical Workers, with Glen Cain and Lee Hansen (1973)
  • The Black Elite: The New Market for Highly Educated Black Americans (1976)
  • The Over-Educated American (1976)
  • What Do Unions Do? with James Medoff (1984)
  • Labor Markets in Action: Essays in Empirical Economics (1989)
  • The New Inequality: Creating Solutions for Poor America (1999)
  • What Workers Want with Joel Rogers (1999, second expanded edition 2006)
  • What Do Unions Do to the European Welfare States? with Agar Brugiavini , Bernhard Ebbinghaus , Pietro Garibaldi , Bertil Holmlund , Martin Schludi and Thierry Verdier (2001)
  • Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization? with Kimberly Ann Elliot (200343 * America Works: The Exceptional Labor Market (2007))
  • The Korean Labor Market after the 1997 Economic Crisis (2012)
  • The Citizen's Share: Putting Ownership Back into Democracy with Joseph R. Blasi and Douglas L. Kruse (2013)
  • Handbook of Research on Employee Voice (2014, second edition 2017)
  • The Economics of Trade Unions: A Study of a Research Field and Its Findings with Hristos Doucouliagos and Patrice Laroche (2017)

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personal data
SURNAME Freeman, Richard B.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Freeman, Richard Barry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Newburgh, New York