IZA Prize in Labor Economics

IZA Prize Medal

The Institute for the Study of Labor awards a prize each year for outstanding academic achievement in the field of labor economics.[1] The IZA Prize in Labor Economics has become a highly prestigious science award in international economics, is the only international science prize awarded exclusively to labor economists and is considered the most important award in labor economics worldwide.[2] The prize was established in 2002 and is awarded annually through a nomination process and decided upon by the IZA Prize Committee, which consists of internationally renowned labor economists. As a part of the prize, all IZA Prize Laureates contribute a volume as an overview of their most significant findings to the IZA Prize in Labor Economics Series published by Oxford University Press.[2]

Funding and prize components

The IZA Prize in Labor Economics consists of a prize medal and a cash award of 50,000 euros.[3] This provides the monetary support for the recipients' past and future research and is meant to stimulate further labor market research.

Nomination and selection process

IZA has a worldwide network of over 1,300 labor economists who collaborate as research fellows with the Institute.[4] Each year they nominate candidates for the IZA Prize in Labor Economics from the research and work of their peers and colleagues. The nominations are reviewed by the IZA Prize Committee, which consists of IZA representatives, Research Fellows and prominent international labor economists.

IZA Prize Committee

Since the establishment of the prize, four Nobel laureates in Economics have served as members of the Prize Committee, George Akerlof, Gary Becker, James Heckman, and Joseph Stiglitz.[5] The committee is coordinated by IZA Director Klaus F. Zimmermann, who is also Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn, Honorary Professor of Economics at the Free University of Berlin and the Renmin University of Peking, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics. Current members of the committee besides Akerlof and Zimmermann are: Corrado Giulietti (IZA Director of Research), Richard Portes (Professor of Economics at the London Business School and President of the CEPR), and Rebecca M. Blank (Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison).[6]

IZA Prize in Labor Economics Series

As a part of the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, each Laureate produces a volume for the IZA Prize in Labor Economics Book Series consisting of their most significant findings. The Series covers a broad range of important issues in labor economics. IZA Director Klaus F. Zimmermann and other IZA experts serve as co-editors for each volume. The series is published by Oxford University Press.[7]

IZA Prize Laureates

The past winners of the IZA Prize include a number of influential labor economists who are active in policy advice. For example, Edward Lazear was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush. Alan Krueger was nominated for the same post by President Barack Obama.

Year Laureate(s) Affiliation Book title
2002[8] Jacob Mincer Columbia University The Founding Father of Modern Labor Economics
2003[9] Orley Ashenfelter Princeton University Labor Policy Evaluation and the Design of Natural Experiments (forthcoming)
2004[10] Edward Lazear Stanford University Inside the Firm: Contributions to Personnel Economics
2005[11] Dale Mortensen
Christopher Pissarides		 Northwestern University
London School of Economics		 Job Matching, Wage Dispersion, and Unemployment
2006[12] David Card
Alan B. Krueger		 University of California, Berkeley
Princeton University		 Wages, School Quality, and Employment Demand
2007[13] Richard B. Freeman Harvard University and London School of Economics Making Europe Work (forthcoming)
2008[7] Richard Layard
Stephen Nickell		 London School of Economics
Nuffield College		 Combatting Unemployment
2009[3] Richard Easterlin University of Southern California Happiness, Growth, and the Life Cycle
2010[14] Francine Blau Cornell University Gender and Inequality
2011[15] George J. Borjas
Barry Chiswick		 Harvard University
George Washington University		 Immigration and the Labor Market (forthcoming)
2012[16] Richard Blundell University College London Taxation and Labour Supply (forthcoming)
2013[17] Daniel S. Hamermesh University of Texas at Austin and Royal Holloway Labour Demand (forthcoming)
2014[18] Gary S. Fields Cornell University Employment and Development (forthcoming)
2015[19] Jan Svejnar Columbia University Economics of Transition (forthcoming)

References

  1. ↑ "Royal Holloway - Professor Dan Hamermesh Wins Yet Another Prestigious Award - Economics home". royalholloway.ac.uk.
  2. 1 2 "IZA Prize in Labor Economics". oup.com.
  3. 1 2 "USC Economist Receives Top Labor Economics Award". usc.edu.
  4. ↑ http://institute.eib.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Short-bio-Klaus-F.-Zimmermann.pdf
  5. ↑ "LSE academic awarded IZA Prize in Labor Economics 2005". lse.ac.uk.
  6. ↑ http://www.iza.org/en/webcontent/prize/prize_committee 30.01.2015
  7. 1 2 "IZA Prize in Labor Economics". oup.com.
  8. ↑ "Columbia News ::: Father of Modern Labor Economics Jacob Mincer Honored for Critical Contributions to the Field". columbia.edu.
  9. ↑ "Princeton University - Ashenfelter receives 2003 IZA Prize in Labor Economics". princeton.edu.
  10. ↑ "Edward Lazear". Stanford Graduate School of Business.
  11. ↑ "LSE academic awarded IZA Prize in Labor Economics 2005". lse.ac.uk.
  12. ↑ "Princeton University - Krueger to receive IZA Prize in Labor Economics". princeton.edu.
  13. ↑ "Richard B. Freeman's Home Page". nber.org.
  14. ↑ "Francine Blau receives top labor economics award - Cornell Chronicle". cornell.edu.
  15. ↑ Harvard Kennedy School. "Harvard Kennedy School - George Borjas Named Co-Winner of 2011 IZA Prize in Labor Economics". harvard.edu.
  16. ↑ "Richard Blundell awarded the 2012 IZA Prize in Labor Economics'". ucl.ac.uk.
  17. ↑ "Royal Holloway - Professor Dan Hamermesh Wins Yet Another Prestigious Award - Economics home". royalholloway.ac.uk.
  18. ↑ "Cornell Daily Sun". The Sun.
  19. ↑ / "Svejnar Wins 2015 IZA Prize in Labor Economics" Check |url= value (help). Columbia School of International and Public Affairs.

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