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Article: U.S. Economist Jacob Mincer To Receive IZA Prize In Labor Economics; 50,000 Euro Award Goes to Pioneer in Labor Market Research.
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- July 15, 2002
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Jacob Mincer (Professor Emeritus of Economics at Columbia University, New York), one of the most influential labor economists of modern time, has been selected as the first recipient of the "IZA Prize in Labor Economics." IZA Director Klaus F. Zimmermann announced the award today in a conference at Columbia University celebrating Mincer's 80th birthday.
The roughly $50,000 prize - one of the largest international science awards - was established by the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, with support from the Deutsche Post Foundation.
The Prize ...