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Hal Salzman

Hal Salzman
Professor and Senior Faculty Fellow, John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz; M..A. and Ph.D., Brandeis University

 

Contact Information

30 Livingston Avenue, Room 207

Phone (732) 932-4100, x6207

Fax (732) 932-3454

E-mail hsalzman@rutgers.edu

 

Research Interests

  • Workforce development and labor markets
  • Effects of technological change
  • Science and engineering workforce policy
  • Low-wage workers, internal labor markets, and corporate restructuring

 

Courses

  • Global Restructuring
  • Science and Technology Policy

 

Publications and Activities

 

S&E Workforce, Technology, Globalization

 

 

Labor,  Workforce& Organizations

 

Profile

Hal Salzman is Professor of Public Policy at the Edward J. Bloustein School and Senior Faculty Fellow at the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. His research focuses on labor markets, workplace restructuring, skill requirements, and globalization of innovation, engineering and technology design. Recently he has been writing on the science and technology policy implications of his research.

 

Currently Principal Investigator of a National Science Foundation-funded project on globalization, innovation, and human capital, Salzman is continuing his research on “collaborative advantage” in globalization, engineering, technology entrepreneurship (research funded by the National Science Foundation and Kauffman Foundation, with Leonard Lynn of Case Western Reserve University and conducted with colleagues in the U.S., Germany, Japan, China, India, and Latin America). Dr. Salzman is also examining the science and engineering education and labor supply in research supported by the Sloan Foundation. He has conducted a number of studies of the IT industry, on both software design and work practices and on labor force issues in the IT industry. Currently he is completing, with colleagues, a project on corporate restructuring and the impact on low-wage jobs and skills. A new project, also NSF funded, is examining employment and sustainability of mixed wage/subsistence economies. His publications include Software By Design: Shaping Technology and the Workplace (Oxford University Press) and articles on issues of technology, skills, and the workplace, including “Collaborative Advantage” (in Issues in Science and Technology), and forthcoming, Technology Entrepreneurs in the Emerging Economies: The new shape of global innovation.

 

Complete Curriculum Vitae (C.V.)