Jan Švejnar Wins 2015 IZA Prize in Labor Economics
14.04.2015Company: CERGE-EI
The 2015 IZA Prize in Labor Economics goes to Jan Švejnar, the James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy and Director of the Center on Global Economic Governance at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, New York and a chairman of the Executive and Supervisory Committee of CERGE-EI in Prague. Czech economist was recognized for his work on economic issues in labor, development and the transition from socialist to market economies.
Professor Švejnar will receive the prize, awarded by the Bonn-based Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and widely regarded as the most prestigious science award in the world in the field of labor economics, for his major contributions to labor, development and comparative economics in general and the economics of transition from centrally planned to market economies in particular.
The award ceremony will be held during the annual IZA/World Bank Conference on Employment and Development in Bonn, Germany, June 4-6, 2015.
