Richard Freeman, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, explored the globalisation of higher education and its impact on the mobility of students.
Richard Freeman is also Director of the Labour Studies Programme at the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves as Faculty Director of the Labour and Worklife Programme at the Harvard Law School. His research interests include the growth and decline of trade unions; self-organising non-unions in the labour market; restructuring European welfare states; international labour standards; transitional economies; Chinese labour markets; crime; employee involvement programmes; income distribution and equity in the marketplace; the effects of immigration and trade on inequality; and the job market for scientists and engineers.