John T. Addison was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is Research Professor in Economics at the University of South Carolina (U.S.A.) and concurrently Professor of Economics at the University of Durham (U.K.). Addison is also a research fellow of the Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University, the Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, CESifo in Munich, and the Rimini Center for Economic Analysis. He has been a member of the Kuratotium at Institute for Labor Law and Industrial Relations (IAAEG) at the University of Trier since 2006. Addison has published widely in the major economics journals, including the Economic Journal, Review of Economics & Statistics, American Economic Review, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Econometrics. He is the author/editor of a number of labor economics texts, including The Market for Labor: An Analytical Treatment (with W. Stanley Siebert), The Economic Analysis of Unions: New Approaches and Evidence (with Barry T. Hirsch), Job Displacement: Consequences and Implications for Policy, The International Handbook of Trade Unions (with Claus Schnabel), Recent Developments in Labor Economics, and The Economics of Codetermination: Lessons from the German Experience. His current research interests include structured management practices across countries and firms, the impact of collective bargaining and employee representation, high dimensional fixed effects models of wage variation, and gender issues in pay and promotion.