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: Marco Caliendo     1. Evaluation of Labor Market Programs   Program Director: Gerard van den Berg, University of Mannheim Deputy Program Director: Anne Gielen, 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, George Washington University and 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: Markus Frölich, University of Mannheim; David Robalino, World Bank Deputy Program Directors: Alpaslan Akay, IZA; Stefano Scarpetta, OECD The IZA research program areas were restructured in January 2004.