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Dr Douglas Kruse

Visiting Fellow

Distinguished Professor of Employee Ownership

MA Nebraska-Lincoln, BA, PhD Harvard

Douglas Kruse is the J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor of Employee Ownership in the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (Cambridge, MA), and a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute for the Study of Labor (Bonn, Germany).

Dr. Kruse served as Senior Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers in 2013-2014. 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 most recent co-authored books are How Did Employee Ownership Firms Weather the Past Two Recessions? (W.E. Upjohn Institute Press), The Citizen’s Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century (Yale University Press), People with Disabilities: Sidelined or Mainstreamed? (Cambridge University Press), and Shared Capitalism at Work (University of Chicago Press). His book Profit Sharing: Does It Make A Difference? won Princeton University’s Richard A. Lester prize as the year’s Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations.

Dr. Kruse has also published widely in peer-reviewed journals, and was an Editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations. He has testified four times before Congress on his economic research, been PI or co-PI on over $17 million in grants, and served on the President’s Committee on Employment of People with Disabilities, New Jersey’s State Rehabilitation Council, and New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy’s transition team.