Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit | |
Abbreviation | IZA |
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Formation | 1998 |
Type | Economic research institute and think tank |
Legal status | non-profit limited liability company |
Location |
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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]
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]
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 1 March 2016. [4]
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 [update] , 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]
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]
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:
The two defunct journal are
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]
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.
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:
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Oriana Bandiera, FBA is an Italian development economist and academic, who is currently the Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on development, labour, and organisational economics. Outside of her academic appointment, she is co-editor of Econometrica, and an affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development. A fellow of the Econometric Society and the British Academy, she received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award in 2019, an award granted annually to the best European economist(s) under the age of 45.
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