Morris kleiner

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Professor and AFL-CIO Chair, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Director of Graduate Studies, Graduate Certificate in Policy Issues on Work and Pay
Editor, British Journal of Industrial Relations

Areas of expertise: public policies on work and pay; role of labor unions in democratic societies; human resource policies and organizational performance

Morris M. Kleiner is the AFL-CIO chair of labor policy and a professor at the Humphrey Institute. He also is a faculty member in the University's Industrial Relations Center. His research interests include the impact of institutions in the labor market, the effect of labor-management policies on organizations, and the role of unions in democratic societies. He has published extensively in the top academic journals in labor economics and industrial relations, and is the author, co-author, or coeditor of six books. Kleiner is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has been a Professor at the University of Kansas, an associate in employment policy with the Brookings Institution, a visiting scholar in the Harvard University economics department, and a research fellow at the London School of Economics. He is currently a Visiting Scholar in the economic research department at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, and an advisor to the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. He received a doctorate in economics from the University of Illinois.

His most recent publication is Licensing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition? (Upjohn Institute, 2006).

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