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: Research Director: N.N.     1. Evaluation of Labor Market Programs   Program Director: Gerard van den Berg, Free University Amsterdam Deputy Program Director: Marco Caliendo, IZA     2. Behavioral and Personnel Economics Program Director: Armin Falk, University of Bonn Deputy Program Director: Steffen Altmann, IZA     3. Migration Program Director: Barry Chiswick, University of Illinois at Chicago Deputy Program Directors: Martin Kahanec, IZA, Amelie Constant, DIW DC, Georgetown University and IZA     4. Labor Markets and Institutions Program Director: Pierre Cahuc, University of Paris 1 Deputy Program Director: Konstantinos Tatsiramos, IZA     5. Labor Markets in Emerging and Transition Economies Program Director: Hartmut Lehmann, University of Bologna Deputy Program Director: Zhong Zhao, IZA     6. The Future of Labor Program Director: Dan Hamermesh, University of Texas at Austin Deputy Program Director: Ana Cardoso, IZA 7. Employment and Development Program Directors: Markus Frölich, University of Mannheim; Robert Holzmann, World Bank Deputy Program Directors: Randall K. Q. Akee, IZA; Stefano Scarpetta, OECD The IZA research program areas were restructured in January 2004.