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IZA Research Fellow Douglas J. Krupka Passed Away |
IZA is deeply saddened by the unexpected
passing of Douglas J. Krupka after a brief
and fierce battle with cancer. Born 1974
in Cleveland, Ohio, Doug received a BA
from the University of Virginia, and a
Masters and PhD from the University of
Chicago. He worked as an Assistant Professor
at Georgia State University before
coming to IZA as a Senior Research Associate
and Deputy Program Director for
the “Future of Labor” research program
in 2007. He had just joined the Institute
for Research on Labor, Employment, and
the Economy and the Ford School at the
University of Michigan in the fall of 2009.
Doug was not only an outstanding scholar
with numerous publications, presentations,
and awards, but also a prolific
reader, avid adventurer and traveler, and
had a special love
for animals and the
environment. He is
survived by his wife,
Erin, who is also an
IZA Alumna and Research
Fellow, and
two children.
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IZA Research Fellow Deborah A. Cobb-Clark Heads Melbourne Institute |
IZA Research Fellow Deborah A. Cobb-
Clark, a world expert on the effects of
public policies on labor market outcomes,
was recently appointed Director
of the Melbourne Institute of Applied
Economic and Social Research and Ronald
F. Henderson Professor at the University
of Melbourne. She took up her new
position in April 2010.
Affiliated with IZA for almost a decade
now, Professor Cobb-Clark has been
a frequent visitor to IZA over the past
years. She is the former Head of the Economics
Program at the Research School
of Social Sciences, and inaugural Director
of the Social Policy Evaluation, Analysis
and Research (SPEAR) Centre at the
Australian National University. Much of
her research has focused on immigration
policy and its impact on the labor market
outcomes of migrants. She has also
examined how the receipt of income support
affects young people’s decisions to
engage in risky behavior
and the role
of gender in promotions,
occupational
choice, and wages.
She is currently leading
the innovative
Youth in Focus project,
a longitudinal
survey funded by the
Australian Research Council and the
Commonwealth Government.
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IZA Research Fellow Andrew J. Oswald Joins Editorial Board of Science |
IZA Research Fellow Andrew J. Oswald (University
of Warwick) has joined the board of
editors of Science, the principal journal of the
American Association for the Advancement
of Science. Along with Ernst Fehr (University of
Zurich), who is also an IZA Fellow, he is one
of the few economists to have been invited to
join Science’s board in the journal’s 130-year
history.
Oswald is known for his research at the borders
between economics, psychology and
epidemiology, while Fehr has made important
contributions to behavioral and experimental
economics, as well as to the emerging
field of neuroeconomics.
Science and Nature are viewed as the two
leading scientific journals in the world; they
have print circulations
of approximately
100,000 and Impact
Factors of approximately
30. Science’s
estimated readership is
one million people per
week.
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IZA Director Klaus F. Zimmermann Re-elected Head of the ARGE Institutes |
Klaus F. Zimmermann, Director of IZA and President
of the German Institute for Economic
Research (DIW Berlin), was re-elected for
another three years as Director of the Executive
Board of the Association of German Economic
Research Institutes (ARGE) in April
2010. “The ARGE institutes will continue to
promote economic and social policies based
on sound scientific research,” said Zimmermann
after the unanimous vote. “As head of
the ARGE, I am determined to keep making
the voices of economic reason heard among
policymakers.”
Established in 1950, ARGE comprises 29
German economic research institutes including
IZA and DIW Berlin.
The association’s main
objective is to provide
a forum for information
exchange on current
issues in economic research
and policy.
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CentER Society Prize 2010 for IZA Research Associate Anne C. Gielen |
IZA Research Associate Anne C. Gielen was
awarded the CentER Society Prize 2010
for her dissertation on “Age-Specific Labor
Market Dynamics” (2008). This year’s prize
honored the CentER dissertation research receiving
the most media attention (based on
CentER Dissertations published and cited in
the media between 2004-2009). Gielen’s paper
was selected from five nominations.
The prize-winning publication is a collection
of four studies which investigate how labor
market flexibility can contribute to achieving
a better allocation of labor in the economy.
The focus lies on several aspects of flexibility:
labor mobility, flexible wage schemes,
and flexibility in working hours. The effects
are studied using panel data and matched
worker-firm data, which allow to uncover
labor supply and labor
demand relations that
determine individual labor
market behavior.
CentER is an internationally
acclaimed research
center at Tilburg
University.
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