On academic leave fall 2008
- Professor and AFL-CIO Chair
- Editor, British Journal of Industrial Relations
Office: 260 Humphrey Center
Phone: 612-625-2089
E-mail: kleiner@umn.edu
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 professor at the Humphrey Institute. He also is a faculty member in the University's Industrial Relations Center. His research interests include the influence 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, a visiting researcher in the Industrial Relations Section at Princeton University, and a research fellow at the London School of Economics. He is currently also serving as a Visiting Scholar in the economic research department at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank. He received a doctorate in economics from the University of Illinois.
Courses taught for the Humphrey Institute
For syllabi for the current semester, view the University of Minnesota's Course Guide. For syllabi for public affairs classes for Fall 2007 or earlier, view the Humphrey Institute's course syllabi web page. Syllabi are available in alternative formats. Please send requests to
the instructor.
Spring 2009
PA 8991-16 - Independent Study
Fall 2008
PA 8991-17 - Independent Study
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