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Klaus F. Zimmermann | Nigel Newton

IZA and Bloomsbury Publishing Plc are delighted to announce the development of IZA World of Labor. This innovative online portal will provide a comprehensive, reliable and up-to-date information resource aimed at labor economists, decision makers, and other professionals in labor economics around the world.

Building on IZA's international expertise, this resource will be developed for IZA by Bloomsbury and will involve hundreds of scholars worldwide. It will develop into a unique repository of data, best practice and thought leadership presented in a clear and accessible way. The online platform will be available free of charge and there will be an accompanying range of books in both in print and electronic formats. IZA World of Labor will adhere to the highest scholarly standards of peer-review process.

IZA Director Klaus F. Zimmermann: "I am delighted that this unique project will make evidence based scholarly information available to a global audience, which is central to IZA's mission. The complex interdependencies of an increasingly globalized world require a new form of analysis and explanation which this portal will provide."

Bloomsbury's Chief Executive Nigel Newton: "We are very proud to partner with this outstanding research institute in Germany. We are looking forward to joining our experience in digital reference publishing with IZA's in-depth expertise in labor economics in order to provide decision makers around the world with a wealth of freely accessible and reliable labor market information."

On January 24, 2012, Francis Vella, Professor, Chair of the Economics Department & Villani Chair in Economics, and Gerald Mara, Dean of the Graduate School & Associate Provost, Research, of Georgetown University, signed a collaboration contract with IZA Director Klaus F. Zimmermann on the premises of Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Vella is also a long-term Research Fellow of IZA and Co-Director of the newly founded Georgetown Center for Economic Research (GCER) together with Professor Roger Lagunoff, who was also present at the ceremony.

The memorandum of understanding documents the intense collaborations between both institutions over the last years in a series of activities and outlines how they have decided to continue and extend this collaboration into a number of new areas. An important purpose is to strengthen the exchange of faculty and graduate students and to foster participation in workshops and conferences. The partners will engage in research and teaching issues and collaborate on themes of policy relevance using the GCER.

Altmann | Zimmermann | Wibral

At the traditional IZA reception during the Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA), which took place in Chicago this year, IZA Director Klaus F. Zimmermann presented the 2011 IZA Young Labor Economist Award to the authors of the article "Gift Exchange and Workers' Fairness Concerns: When Equality Is Unfair" (Journal of the European Economic Association, 2010). Representing the team of authors, which also included Johannes Abeler and Sebastian Kube, Steffen Altmann and Matthias Wibral attended the award ceremony in Chicago.

Polachek | Whitfield | Tatsiramos

During the same event, IZA Fellows Solomon Polachek (Binghamton University) and Konstantinos Tatsiramos (University of Leicester) received the Leading Book Series Editors in the Emerald Literati Network 2011 Awards for Excellence in recognition of the outstanding work they have put into the Research in Labor Economics series. The prize was presented by Emma Whitfield, Commissioning Editor at Emerald.

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- IZA Young Labor Economist Award
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