Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. He is currently serving as Faculty Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School. He directs the National Bureau of Economic Research / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Projects, and is Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance.

Professor Freeman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science and is currently serving as a Member of the AAAS Initiative for Science and Technology. Freeman served on the study on Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the U.S. United States. 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 Labor Economics in 2006. In 2007 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics.

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 forthcoming IZA Prize book is Making Europe Work: IZA Labor Economics Series (2009). Forthcoming 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)

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DATASETS: the following data sets can be downloaded free:

1995 Worker Representation and Participation Survey

Occupational Wages around the World (OWW) Database

NBER Public Sector Collective Bargaining Law Data Set

Boston Youth Labor (Market) Survey, 1980, 1989

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