We are pleased to announce the 2019IZA Young Labor Economist Award. This biennial prize is awarded to outstanding labor economists whose Ph.D. was received fewer than 15 years ago. The 2019 Award goes toLeah Platt Boustan(Princeton University) for her historical research on immigration, and to菲利普·科瑞撤(University of Edinburgh and European University Institute) for his work on search, sorting and matching in labor markets.
“The Award thus typifies the tremendous breadth of what is classifiable as labor economics,” saidDaniel Hamermesh, who chairs the IZA Prize Committee. This year’s committee choosing the Awardees further consisted of Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Richard Blundell (UCL), George Borjas (Harvard), Pierre Cahuc (Sciences Po), Chinhui Juhn (Houston) and Shelly Lundberg (UC-Santa Barbara).
The Award contains a small monetary prize, which will be conferred during the IZA Reception at the ASSA Meetings on January 3, 2020, in San Diego, California.