Douglas Kruse is a Professor in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA.  He received an M.A. in Economics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.  His research has focused on the employment and earnings effects of disability, and the causes, consequences, and implications of employee ownership and profit sharing.  His publications include Profit Sharing: Does It Make A Difference?, which won Princeton's Richard A. Lester prize as the year's Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, and The New Owners: The Mass Emergence of Employee Ownership in Public Companies and What It Means for American Business, which was co-authored with Rutgers colleague Joseph Blasi and later translated and published in Russian.  In addition, his published articles have appeared in scholarly journals such as Economic Journal, Industrial Relations, and Industrial and Labor Relations Review.  He has testified four times before Congress on his economic research, and authored or co-authored three U.S. Department of Labor studies.  He is working with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to design new questions to measure disability on the monthly employment survey.   He was appointed by the Governor to New Jersey’s State Rehabilitation Council, and served on the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities.  He is also on the Board of Reviewers of Industrial Relations, and the Board of the Profit Sharing Research Foundation in Chicago, IL.  

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