Organization:IZA Institute of Labor Economics
Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit | |
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| Abbreviation | IZA |
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| Formation | 1998 |
| Type | Economic research institute and think tank |
| Legal status | non-profit limited liability company |
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President | Klaus Zumwinkel |
Director | Simon Jäger |
| Website | www |
The IZA - Institute of Labor Economics (German: Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit), until 2016 referred to as the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), is a private, independent economic research institute and academic network focused on the analysis of global labor markets and headquartered in Bonn, Germany .[1]
History
Founded in 1998, IZA is a non-profit limited-liability organization supported by the Deutsche Post Foundation[2] and other national and international sources.[3]
Restructuring
On March 1, 2016, the Institute for the Study of Labor was restructured by Klaus Zumwinkel, CEO of the Deutsche Post Stiftung and president of IZA. A new institute on behavior and inequality research was founded while IZA will put more emphasis on policy-relevant research. Founding director Klaus F. Zimmermann, who did not accept these developments, left IZA on the 1st of March 2016.[4]
Work
IZA runs the world's largest research network in economic science, comprising over 1,300 international Research Fellows and Affiliates, as well as Policy Fellows from business, politics, society and the media.[5]
(As of December 2014), the RePEc ranks IZA second of the top worldwide economic institutions in the field of labour economics[6] as well as second of the top worldwide think tanks.[7] In Germany it is the number one top economic institution.[8]
In conducting labor market research, IZA cooperates closely with the Economics Department at the University of Bonn and the department's graduate education program at the Bonn Graduate School of Economics.[9]
IZA's main focus is the economic analysis of national and international labor markets within a broad range of research areas. Furthermore, IZA provides policy advice on crucial labor market issues for national and international policy institutions.[3]
Research
IZA's research activities currently concentrate on eleven program areas providing high-standard labor market research on a wide array of topics:
To promote research on labor markets in developing countries, IZA launched in 2006, together with the World Bank, a joint research program on "Employment and Development".[10] In addition, in its special research area "Growth and Labor Markets in Low Income Countries", IZA coordinates for the UK Department for International Development a substantial research program to promote growth and employment in low income countries.[11]
Publications
IZA publishes the series Research in Labor Economics together with Emerald Group Publishing.
In addition, it publishes the IZA journal series, which consists of three open access journals that focus on different aspects of international labor markets. The journals are published on IZA's behalf by Sciendo and do not charge any author fees. They were started in 2012 as 5 journals.[12] The three journals are:
- IZA Journal of Labor Economics
- IZA Journal of Labor Policy
- IZA Journal of Development and Migration (formerly IZA Journal of Migration)
The two defunct journal are
- IZA Journal of Labor & Development
- IZA Journal of European Labor Studies
Since May 2014, IZA publishes, together with Bloomsbury Publishing, IZA World of Labor, an open access resource providing empirically founded research articles on labor economics for a non-academic readership.[13]
Awards
IZA Prize in Labor Economics
Since 2002 IZA awards yearly the IZA Prize in Labor Economics for exceptional academic accomplishments in the field of labor economics.[14] It is endowed with an award of 50,000 euros and is among the most prestigious economics awards worldwide.
Young Labor Economist Award
In 2006, IZA also established the "IZA Young Labor Economist Award" to honor an outstanding published paper in labor economics written by researchers under 40 years of age at the time of publication. The prize money of 5,000 Euros is shared between the authors.[15] Winners include:
- 2006: Enrico Moretti::Moretti, Enrico (2004). "Estimating the Social Return to Higher Education: Evidence from Longitudinal and Repeated Cross-Sectional Data". Journal of Econometrics 121 (1–2): 175–212. doi:10.1016/j.jeconom.2003.10.015. http://www.nber.org/papers/w9108.pdf.[16]
- 2007: Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay, Imran Rasul::Bandiera, O.; Barankay, I.; Rasul, I. (2005). "Social Preferences and the Response to Incentives: Evidence from Personnel Data". Quarterly Journal of Economics 120 (3): 917–962. doi:10.1093/qje/120.3.917. https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1161&context=bepp_papers.[17]
- 2008: Fabian Lange::Lange, Fabian (2007). "The Speed of Employer Learning". Journal of Labor Economics 25 (1): 1–35. doi:10.1086/508730.[18]
- 2009: Alexandre Mas::Mas, Alexandre (2008). "Labour Unrest and the Quality of Production: Evidence from the Construction Equipment Resale Market". Review of Economic Studies 75 (1): 229–258. doi:10.1111/j.1467-937X.2007.00461.x.[19]
- 2010: Raj Chetty::Chetty, Raj (2008). "Moral Hazard versus Liquidity and Optimal Unemployment Insurance". Journal of Political Economy 116 (2): 173–234. doi:10.1086/588585. https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/9751256/Chetty_MoralHazard.pdf?sequence=1.[20]
- 2011: Johannes Abeler, Steffen Altmann, Sebastian Kube, Mathias Wibral::Abeler, Johannes; Altmann, Steffen; Kube, Sebastian; Wibral, Matthias (2010). "Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns: When Equality is Unfair". Journal of the European Economic Association 8 (6): 1299–1324. doi:10.1111/j.1542-4774.2010.tb00556.x. http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cedex/documents/papers/2009-11.pdf.[21]
- 2012: Scott Carrell and Mark Hoekstra::Carrell, Scott E.; Hoekstra, Mark L. (2010). "Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids". American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (1): 211–228. doi:10.1257/app.2.1.211.[22]
- 2013: Martha Bailey, Brad Hershbein and Amalia Miller::Bailey, Martha J; Hershbein, Brad; Miller, Amalia R (2012). "The Opt-In Revolution? Contraception, Fertility Timing and the Gender Gap in Wages". American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4 (3): 225–254. doi:10.1257/app.4.3.225. PMID 23785566.[23]
- 2014: Brian K. Kovak::Kovak, Brian K (2013). "Regional Effects of Trade Reform: What is the Correct Measure of Liberalization?". American Economic Review 103 (5): 1960–1976. doi:10.1257/aer.103.5.1960. http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/data/aug2013/20110545_app.pdf.[24]
References
- ↑ "IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor". socialcapitalgateway.org. http://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/content/website/iza-institute-study-labor.
- ↑ "History". Deutsche Post Foundation. http://deutsche-post-stiftung.org/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "German Think Tanks - Research and Science in Germany - Research Centres from A to Z". Goethe-Institut. http://www.goethe.de/wis/fut/prj/for/for/en1196638.htm.
- ↑ "Strategic Restructuring of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)". Institute for the Study of Labor. 15 December 2015. http://www.iza.org/files/IZAPress20151215_EN.pdf.
- ↑ Dietmar Henning (26 January 2015). "German corporations call for new forms of workplace extension". World Socialist Website. http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/01/26/germ-j26.html.
- ↑ "Field Rankings at IDEAS: Labour Economics". repec.org. IDEAS. December 2014. https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.lab.html.
- ↑ "Rankings at IDEAS: Think Tanks". repec.org. IDEAS. December 2014. https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.ttanks.html.
- ↑ "Within Country and State Rankings at IDEAS: Germany". repec.org. IDEAS. December 2014. https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.germany.html.
- ↑ "Klaus F. Zimmermann". uni-bonn.de. http://www.bgse.uni-bonn.de/people/faculty-profiles/professors/klaus-f.-zimmermann.
- ↑ "Labor Markets - Partnerships". World Bank. http://go.worldbank.org/IBDNTF5EZ0.
- ↑ "DFID - Research for Development > IZA/DFID Growth and labour markets in low income countries (LICs) programme". Department for International Development. http://r4d.dfid.gov.uk/Project/60890/Default.aspx.
- ↑ Olaf Siegert (27 November 2012). "EconStor Blog » Blog Archive » IZA launches 5 new Open Access Journals". econstor.eu. ZBW. http://blog.econstor.eu/2012/11/iza-launches-5-new-open-access-journals/.
- ↑ "IZA World of Labor". The Jobs Knowledge Platform. https://www.jobsknowledge.org/Pages/WOL.aspx.
- ↑ "Professor Dan Hamermesh Wins Yet Another Prestigious Award - Economics home". royalholloway.ac.uk. Royal Holloway University of London. 19 July 2013. https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/economics/news/newsarticles/professordanhamermeshwinsyetanotherprestigiousaward.aspx.
- ↑ "News & Announcements:Congrats to Prof. Amalia Miller on her IZA Young Labor Economist Award". virginia.edu. University of Virginia. http://economics.virginia.edu/news.
- ↑ "The NBER Reporter Winter 20062007: Bureau News". http://www.nber.org/reporter/winter07/news.html.
- ↑ "LSE STICERD News and Visitors". http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/news/awards_grants.asp.
- ↑ "Fabian lange - Publications". yale.edu. http://www.econ.yale.edu/~fl88/publications.html.
- ↑ "Alexandre Mas receives 2009 IZA Young Labor Economist Award". Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. 2013-09-10. http://wws.princeton.edu/node/10043.
- ↑ "Harvard Faculty Raj Chetty CV". http://obs.rc.fas.harvard.edu/chetty/cv.pdf/.
- ↑ "The IZA Young Labor Economist Award 2011". ox.ac.uk. http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/General-News/the-iza-young-labor-economist-award-2011.
- ↑ "IZA Young Labor Economist Award". ucdavis.edu. http://economics.ucdavis.edu/iza-young-labor-economist-award.
- ↑ "Brad Hershbein shares 2013 IZA Young Labor Economist Award". upjohn.org. http://www.upjohn.org/node/937.
- ↑ "Heinz College News - Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College". cmu.edu. http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/news/news-detail/index.aspx?nid=1758.
Further reading
- Klaus F. Zimmermann. Migration, jobs and integration in Europe. Migration Policy Practice, Volume IV, Number 4, October–November 2014, pp. 4–16.
External links
- IZA Prize Series at OUP
- GLM LIC DFID Project
- Research in Labor Economics homepage
- IZA Journal Series homepage
- IZA World of Labor homepage
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