Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics

This handbook provides an integrated picture of knowledge about the economic and social behaviors and interactions of human beings on markets, in households, in companies and in societies. With a core basis in labor economics, human resources, demography and econometrics, it contains a large and complete summary and evaluation of the scientific state of the art. It relates to relevant fields in law, behavioral science, psychology, health, biology, sociology and political science, among others, where basic human processes are considered. Long survey chapters on core knowledge are combined with shorter frontier research chapters and those with a clear policy perspective.


Section Editors


Prof. M. Niaz Asadullah
University of Malaya

Faculty Of Economics And Administration
Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia
University of Oxford
Centre on Skills, Knowledge & Organisational Performance
Oxford
UK
University of Reading

Dept of Economics
Reading
UK
University of Manchester

School of Education, Environment and Development (SEED),
Manchester
UK
IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Bonn
Germany
Section: Development and Labor


Dr. Nick Drydakis
Anglia Ruskin University

School of Economics and International Business, Centre for Pluralist Economics, Faculty of Business and Law
Cambridge
UK
University of Cambridge, Pembroke College

Cambridge
UK
University of Cambridge

Centre for Science and Policy
Cambridge
UK
Institute for the Study of Labor

Bonn
Germany
Global Labor Organization

EssenGermany
Section: Gender



Prof. Gil Epstein
Bar-Ilan University

Ramat Gan
Israel
Section: Political Economy (of Human Resources)


Prof. Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Syracuse University

Center for Policy Research; Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and Global Labor Organization (GLO)
Syracuse, NY
USA
Section: Methods and Data


Prof. Colm Harmon
University of Edinburgh
Old College
Edinburgh EH8 9YL
UK
Section: Education: Schooling: Human Capital



Uwe Jirjahn
University of Trier

Trier
Germany
Section: Worker representation, labor-management relations; labor standards



Prof. Dave E. MarcotteAmerican University

Department of Public Administration and Policy Department of Public Administration and Policy, School of Public Affairs
Washington, DC
USA
Section: Risky behaviors


Mathilde Maurel
Director of Research
CNRS-CES & FERDI
Paris
France

Section: Environment



Dr Milena NikolovaUniversity of Groningen

Faculty of Economics and Business
Groningen
The Netherlands
http://www.milena-nikolova.com
Section: Welfare, Well-Being, Happiness


Dr. Olga Popova
Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS)
Landshuter Str.4
93047 Regensburg
Germany

Section: Religion



Prof. Enrico Rettore
University of Padova

Department of Economics and management
Padova
Italy
Section: Program Evaluation


Sergio Scicchitano
National Institute for Public Policies Analysis (INAPP)
Department of Labour Market and Social Policies
00198, Rome
Italy
Section: Covid-19


Dr. Eva M. Sierminska

Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

Esch-sur-Alzette, Belval
Luxembourg
Section: Inequality and Poverty


Prof. Kompal Sinha
Macquarie UniversityDepartment of Economics
Balaclava Rd
Sydney 2109, NSW
Australia
Section: Health



Prof. Marie Claire Villeval
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Lyon

GATE UMR 5824
Ecully, Lyon
France
CORTEX Laboratory of Excellence
Lyon
France
Section: Behavioral Economics


Prof. Victoria Vernon
SUNY Empire State College
Department of Accounting, Economics & Finance
325 Hudson Street
New York
NY 10013
USA
Section: Household Economics


Prof. Dr. Marco Vivarelli
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Department of Economic Policy
Milan
Italy
Section: Technological Changes and the Labor Market


Prof. Klaus F. Zimmermann
Princeton University

Department of Economics
Princeton
USA
Maastricht University
Center for Population, Development and Labour Economics at UNU – MERIT
Maastricht
The Netherlands
University of Bonn
Bonn
Germany
Section: Migration

Klaus F. Zimmermann is Visiting Professor at the Economics Department of Princeton University; Co – Director of the Center for Population, Development and Labour Economics at UNU – MERIT, Maastricht; Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics; Honorary Professor at the Free University of Berlin and at the Renmin University of China, Beijing; Full Professor of Economics at Bonn University (on leave); Member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, and of the Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences, and Chair of its Section for Economics, Business and Management Sciences; Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research; and Fellow of the European Economic Association.

Among his previous positions have been: Visiting Professor and John F. Kennedy Memorial Policy Fellow at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University; Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor; President of the German Institute for Economic Research; Professorships at University of Pennsylvania, Munich University, Kyoto University and Dartmouth College, among others. He has received the Distinguished John G. Diefenbaker Award 1998 of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Outstanding Contribution Award 2013 of the European Investment Bank.

His research covers applied economics, in particular the areas of labor, migration and development. He has written or edited over 55 books, 160 papers in peer reviewed journals and 150 articles in collected volumes. He is committed to the diffusion of research to policy and society and evidence-based policymaking. He writes regularly in leading international media and advises governments and institutions.