IZA Research

Research at IZA is organized in a number of different research areas that together span a wide array of labor market research. These research areas function as umbrellas for individual projects with a common thread. Such projects are often initiated by IZA Research Fellows or IZA's in-house researchers, but they also include commissioned studies for national or regional governments. By means of international cooperation and organizing workshops targeted to these projects, existing expertise throughout the international research community is brought together. The synergy resulting from these interactions has proven very successful..

Program Areas: Acting Research Director: Andrew J. Oswald     1. Evaluation of Labor Market Programs   Program Directors: Marco Caliendo, University of Potsdam; Gerard van den Berg, University of Mannheim Deputy Program Director: Patrick Arni, IZA     2. Behavioral and Personnel Economics Program Director: Armin Falk, University of Bonn Deputy Program Director: Steffen Altmann, IZA     3. Migration Program Director: Amelie Constant, DIW DC and George Washington University Deputy Program Directors: Martin Kahanec, Central European University; Corrado Giulietti, IZA     4. Labor Markets and Institutions Program Director: Pierre Cahuc, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris Deputy Program Director: Konstantinos Tatsiramos, IZA     5. Labor Markets in Emerging and Transition Economies Program Director: Hartmut Lehmann, University of Bologna Deputy Program Director: Alexander Muravyev, IZA     6. The Future of Labor Program Director: David Blanchflower, Dartmouth College Deputy Program Director: Andreas Peichl, IZA 7. Employment and Development Program Directors: David Robalino, World Bank; Stefano Scarpetta, OECD Deputy Program Directors: Alpaslan Akay, IZA; Theodora Xenogiani, OECD 8. Environment and Employment Program Director: N.N. Deputy Program Director: N.N. Special Research Area: Growth and Labor Markets in Low Income Countries (GLM | LIC) Program Director: David Lam, University of Michigan Deputy Program Directors: Janneke Pieters, IZA