Klaus F. Zimmermann
Director

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Born in 1952. Since 1998 Full Professor of Economics at Bonn University and Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA Bonn). President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin, since 2000), Honorary Professor of Economics at the Free University of Berlin (since 2001), and Honorary Professor at the Renmin University of Peking (since December 2006). He is also Chairman of the Society of the German Economic Research Institutes (ARGE) (since 2005), advisor to the President of the EU Commission (2001-2003 and since 2005), economic advisor to the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia (since 2008), and member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Migration. Among his various fellowships are positions as Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London (since 1990), Associate Research Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels (since 2001), Research Associate of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) at the University of California-San Diego (since 2001), and Fellow of the European Economic Association (since 2004).

Klaus F. Zimmermann studied economics and statistics at the University of Mannheim, where he received his degree as Diplom Volkswirt, his doctor degree and his habilitation. From 1989-1998 he was Full Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Munich, and Director of the SELAPO Center for Human Resources in Munich; from 1993-1995 he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics, University of Munich.

CORE Research Fellow 1986 (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain la Neuve, Belgium). Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), 1986. Visiting Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, 1987. Heisenberg Fellow, 1988 1989. Picard Lecture 1994, Dartmouth College, USA. Visiting Professor: University of Dortmund and University of Munich, 1989; Humboldt University Berlin, 1991; Kyoto University, Japan, 1995; Dartmouth College, USA, 1997; University of Munich, 1998. Distinguished John G. Diefenbaker Award 1998 of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Founder and Secretary of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), 1986 1992. President 1994 of the European Society for Population Economics. Programme Director for "Human Resources" (1991-1998) and "Labour Economics" (1998-2001) of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London. For many years member of the Council of the European Economic Association, the European Society for Population Economics and of the German Economic Association. Many years ago Chairman of the Council of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin).

Since 1988 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics, previously (1995-1998) Managing Editor of Economic Policy. He is or has been Associate Editor of the following journals: Recherches Economiques de Louvain (since 1991), Journal of Applied Econometrics (1992-2003), Labour Economics (1992-2000), European Economic Review (1993-1998), International Journal of Manpower (since 1998), Economic Bulletin (2000-2007), DIW-Wochenbericht (since 2000) and DIW-Vierteljahrshefte (since 2002), Wirtschaftsdienst - Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik (since 2007), and Applied Economics Quarterly (since 2008).

Special research interests: Labor economics, population economics, migration, industrial organization, econometrics.

Publications: Author or editor of 33 books and over 180 papers in refereed journals and collected volumes, among others: American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Public Choice, Sociological Methods and Research, Review of Economics and Statistics, Applied Economics, Kyklos, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Economics Letters, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Surveys, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Open Economies Review, Politica Internationale, Quality & Quantity, Recherches Economiques de Louvain.

IZA Discussion Papers:

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Author(s)

Title

4230	Martin Kahanec Anzelika Zaiceva Klaus F. Zimmermann

Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2009, 3-45)

4201	Nikos Askitas Klaus F. Zimmermann

Google Econometrics and Unemployment Forecasting
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2009, 55 (2), 107-120. Courtesy of Duncker&Humblot Berlin, the DP contains a download link to the published version)

4055	Karl Brenke Mutlu Yuksel Klaus F. Zimmermann

EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2009, 111-129)

3999	Klaus F. Zimmermann

Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets

3913	Martin Kahanec Klaus F. Zimmermann

Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?
(published by the European Commission as Economic Paper 363, March 2009)

3898	Ana Rute Cardoso Paulo Guimaraes Klaus F. Zimmermann

Comparing the Early Research Performance of PhD Graduates in Labor Economics in Europe and the USA

3890	Martin Kahanec Klaus F. Zimmermann

Migration and Globalization: Challenges and Perspectives for the Research Infrastructure

3650	Amelie F. Constant Martin Kahanec Klaus F. Zimmermann

Attitudes towards Immigrants, Other Integration Barriers, and Their Veracity
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 5-14)

3595	Anzelika Zaiceva Klaus F. Zimmermann

Scale, Diversity, and Determinants of Labour Migration in Europe
(revised version published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2008, 24 (3), 428-452)

3560	Martin Kahanec Klaus F. Zimmermann

Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

3450	Martin Kahanec Klaus F. Zimmermann

International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
(substantially revised version published in: Oxford Handbook on Economic Inequality, 2009)

3271	Rolf Ketzler Klaus F. Zimmermann

Publications: German Economic Research Institutes on Track
(published in: Scientometrics, 2009, 80 (1), 233-254)

3260	Amelie F. Constant Liliya Gataullina Klaus F. Zimmermann

Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 70-82)

3070	Anzelika Zaiceva Klaus F. Zimmermann

Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?

3063	Amelie F. Constant Klaus F. Zimmermann

Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (2-3), 424-433)

3056	Klaus F. Zimmermann

Migrant Ethnic Identity: Concept and Policy Implications
(published in: Ekonomia, 2007, 10 (1), 1-17)

3050	Amelie F. Constant Rowan Roberts Klaus F. Zimmermann

Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership
(forthcoming in: Urban Studies, Volume 46 (9), 1879-1898, August 2009)

2999	Amelie F. Constant Klaus F. Zimmermann

Circular Migration: Counts of Exits and Years Away from the Host Country

2605	Werner Eichhorst Klaus F. Zimmermann

Dann waren's nur noch vier… Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktiven Arbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch? Eine Bilanz nach der Evaluation der Hartz-Reformen
(this paper is also available in an English version; published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2007, 53 (3), 243-272)

2537	Holger Bonin Amelie F. Constant Konstantinos Tatsiramos Klaus F. Zimmermann

Ethnic Persistence, Assimilation and Risk Proclivity

2535	Laura Zimmermann Klaus F. Zimmermann Amelie F. Constant

Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants
(published in: International Migration Review, 2007, 41 (3), 769-781)

2530	Amelie F. Constant Martin Kahanec Klaus F. Zimmermann

The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide

2420	Amelie F. Constant Liliya Gataullina Klaus F. Zimmermann

Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work

2350	Amelie F. Constant Liliya Gataullina Klaus F. Zimmermann Laura Zimmermann

Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

2330	Amelie F. Constant Martin Kahanec Klaus F. Zimmermann

The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide

2300	Laura Zimmermann Liliya Gataullina Amelie F. Constant Klaus F. Zimmermann

Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants
(published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 98 (3), 235-239)

2299	Arne Uhlendorff Klaus F. Zimmermann

Unemployment Dynamics among Migrants and Natives

2055	Hilmar Schneider Werner Eichhorst Klaus F. Zimmermann

Konzentration statt Verzettelung: Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Scheideweg
(published in: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 2006, 7 (3), 379-397)

2040	Amelie F. Constant Liliya Gataullina Klaus F. Zimmermann

Ethnosizing Immigrants
(substantially revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2009, 69(3), 274-287 [view leaflet])

1999	Holger Bonin Amelie F. Constant Konstantinos Tatsiramos Klaus F. Zimmermann

Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes
(forthcoming in: Applied Economics Letters, 2009)

1910	Amelie F. Constant Klaus F. Zimmermann

Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants

1715	Amelie F. Constant Klaus F. Zimmermann

Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy: A European Perspective
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2005, 194, 94-105)

1440	Amelie F. Constant Klaus F. Zimmermann

The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany: Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?
(published in: Small Business Economics, 2006, 26 (3), 279-300)

1410	Klaus F. Zimmermann

European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials
(published in: De Economist, 2005, 153 (4), 425-450)

1386	Amelie F. Constant Klaus F. Zimmermann

Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives

1001	Klaus F. Zimmermann

Advising Policymakers Through the Media
(published in: Journal of Economic Education, 2004, 35 (4), 395-405)

975	Amelie F. Constant Klaus F. Zimmermann

Occupational Choice Across Generations
(published in: Applied Economics Quarterly, 2003, 49 (4), 299-317)

960	Amelie F. Constant Klaus F. Zimmermann

Circular Movements and Time Away from the Host Country

958	Tilman Brück John P. Haisken-DeNew Klaus F. Zimmermann

Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work
(published in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38 (8), 899-911)

940	Amelie F. Constant Yochanan Shachmurove Klaus F. Zimmermann

What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does It Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany
(published in: International Migration, 2007, 45 (4), 69-98)

885	Amelie F. Constant Klaus F. Zimmermann

The Dynamics of Repeat Migration: A Markov Chain Analysis

187	Thomas Bauer Magnus Lofstrom Klaus F. Zimmermann

Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries
(published in: Swedish Economic Policy Review, Vol. 7 (2000), 11-53; see IZA Reprints 87/01)

185	Holger Bonin Klaus F. Zimmermann

The Post-Unification German Labor Market
(published in: R. T. Riphahn/ D. J. Snower / K. F. Zimmermann (Eds.), Employment Policy in Transition: The Lessons of German Integration for the Labor Market, Springer Verlag, 2001, 8-30; see IZA Reprints 66/00)

170	Thomas Bauer Klaus F. Zimmermann

Immigration Policy in Integrated National Economies
(published in: C. Lankowski (ed.): Responses to Globalization in Germany and the United States, AICGS Research Report No. 10, Washington, D. C., 1999, 15-30)

58	Thomas Bauer Klaus F. Zimmermann

Occupational Mobility of Ethnic Migrants

57	Ira N. Gang Klaus F. Zimmermann

Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 35 (2000), 550-569;
see IZA Reprints 54/00)

50	Klaus F. Zimmermann

Ethnic German Migration since 1989 - Results and Perspectives/ Aussiedler seit 1989 - Bilanz und Perspektiven
(published in: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 1 (2000), 225-237;
see IZA Reprints 50/00)

48	Thomas Bauer Klaus F. Zimmermann

Overtime Work and Overtime Compensation in Germany
(published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 46 (1999), 419-436;
see IZA Reprints 19/99)

24	Klaus F. Zimmermann Michael C. Burda Jürgen von Hagen Kai A. Konrad Friedrich Schneider Gert G. Wagner

Petersberger Erklaerung: Anstoesse fuer eine zukunftsgerichtete Arbeitsmarktpolitik
(published in: Wirtschaftsdienst, 1998, 78, 652-653; see IZA Reprints 2/99)

23	Thomas Bauer Klaus F. Zimmermann

Learning Efficiency of Economics Students

22	Andreas Million Ralph Rotte Klaus F. Zimmermann

The Economics of Hospital Trips and Health Care Reform

20	Thomas Bauer Pedro T. Pereira Michael Vogler Klaus F. Zimmermann

Portuguese Migrants in the German Labor Market: Performance and Self-Selection
(published in: International Migration Review, Vol. 36(2), 2002, 467-491; see IZA Reprints 180/03)

16	Thomas Bauer Andreas Million Ralph Rotte Klaus F. Zimmermann

Immigration Labor and Workplace Safety

14	Richard Hauser Gert G. Wagner Klaus F. Zimmermann

Memorandum: Erfolgsbedingungen empirischer Wirtschaftsforschung und empirisch gestuetzter wirtschafts- und sozialpolitischer Beratung
(published in: Allgemeines Statistisches Archiv, 82 (1998), 369-379;
see IZA Reprints 14/99)

8	Ralph Rotte Klaus F. Zimmermann

Das Entsendegesetz: Suendenfall oder Loesung des Arbeitslosigkeitsproblems?
(published in: Staatswissenschaften und Staatspraxis, 1998, 9 (2), 191-208;
see IZA Reprints 4/99)

7	Klaus F. Zimmermann

Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt: Eine oekonomische Perspektive
(published in: Boesler, Klaus-Achim/ Heinritz, Günter/ Wiessner, Reinhard (Hrsg.), Europa zwischen Integration und Regionalismus, Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 1998, 56-66;
see IZA Reprints 8/99)

6	Regina T. Riphahn Klaus F. Zimmermann

The Mortality Crisis in East Germany
(published in: G. A. Cornia / R. Paniccià (eds.), The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies, Oxford, 2000, 227-252;
see IZA Reprints 60/00)

4	Klaus F. Zimmermann

German Job Mobility and Wages
(published in: Ohashi, Isao/ Tachibanaki, Toshiaki (eds.), International Labour Markets, Incentives and Employment, Macmillan Press LTD, Houndsmills, 1998, 300-332;
see IZA Reprints 1/99)

2	Rudolf Winter-Ebmer Klaus F. Zimmermann

East-West Trade and Migration: The Austro-German Case
(published in: R. Faini / J. de Melo / K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Migration. The Controversies and the Evidence, Cambridge, 1999, 296-327;
see IZA Reprints 18/99)

1	Rainer Winkelmann Klaus F. Zimmermann

Is Job Stability Declining in Germany? Evidences from Count Data Models
(published in: Applied Economics, 30 (1998), 1413-1420;
see IZA Reprints 5/99)

IZA Policy Papers:

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10	Dorothea Schäfer Klaus F. Zimmermann

Bad Bank(s) and Recapitalization of the Banking Sector

1	Klaus F. Zimmermann Michael C. Burda Kai A. Konrad Friedrich Schneider Hilmar Schneider Jürgen von Hagen Gert G. Wagner

The Petersberg Declaration

IZA Standpunkte:

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14	Ulf Rinne Klaus F. Zimmermann

Fünf Jahre EU-Ostererweiterung: Schlechte Noten für deutsche Abschottungspolitik

13	Nikos Askitas Klaus F. Zimmermann

Prognosen aus dem Internet: Weitere Erholung am Arbeitsmarkt erwartet

10	Klaus F. Zimmermann Bodo Hombach Friedrich Merz Paul Schnabel Wolfgang Streeck

NRW 2025: Vom Hort der alten Industrien zum Magnet der Moderne?

8	Klaus F. Zimmermann

Der Berater als Störenfried: Anmerkungen zur wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Politikberatung

7	Klaus F. Zimmermann

Mobilitätspolitik in Europa

4	Klaus F. Zimmermann

Prognosekrise: Warum weniger manchmal mehr ist

2	Klaus F. Zimmermann Hilmar Schneider Werner Eichhorst Holger Hinte Andreas Peichl

Vollbeschäftigung ist keine Utopie: Arbeitsmarktpolitisches Programm des IZA

1	Klaus F. Zimmermann Michael C. Burda Kai A. Konrad Friedrich Schneider Hilmar Schneider Jürgen von Hagen Gert G. Wagner

Petersberger Erklärung

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