IZA - Institute of Labor Economics
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Key findings#
- IZA - Institute of Labor Economics was involved in 3 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02), ranking #525 of 3,191 institutions.
- Most of them appeared in Empirical Economics (1), European Economic Review (1) and Journal of Urban Economics (1).
- Countries: Germany (3), Netherlands (1) and Denmark (1).
- From 2023 to 2025, IZA - Institute of Labor Economics ranks #2 in economics.
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), authors at IZA - Institute of Labor Economics took part in 1,633 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (1,442), health economics and policy (113) and management (34).
- 144 of them were published in 2025, against 170 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were Centre for Economic Policy Research (59), National Bureau of Economic Research (27) and Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung (25).
- The journals publishing most of them were Labour Economics (59), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (49) and European Economic Review (40).
- The most-cited of them is “Trust and compliance to public health policies in times of COVID-19” (Journal of Public Economics, 2020), with 920 citations.
- Across everything OpenAlex indexes, IZA - Institute of Labor Economics has 32,164 works with 1,047,051 citations (h-index 333).
- The tracked journals hold 1,570 of its 11,556 works in OpenAlex from 2017 to 2025 (13.6%).
- Its main research topics in OpenAlex are Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (10,085), Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (3,909) and Migration and Labor Dynamics (3,028).
In the rankings#
Top institutions, 2023–2025: #2 in economics
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 156 | 142 | 134 | 154 | 173 | 161 | 168 | 170 | 130 | 54 |
| Health Economics and Policy | 9 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 19 | 9 | 3 |
| Management | 2 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Finance | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| All categories | 170 | 163 | 149 | 182 | 195 | 185 | 180 | 202 | 144 | 63 |
Where the papers come from and its co-authors#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Labour Economics | 59 |
| 2 | Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 49 |
| 3 | European Economic Review | 40 |
| 4 | Journal of Public Economics | 35 |
| 5 | Journal of Development Economics | 28 |
| 6 | Economics of Education Review | 27 |
| 7 | Journal of Population Economics | 22 |
| 8 | Economics Letters | 20 |
| 9 | Journal of Health Economics | 19 |
| 10 | Review of Economics of the Household | 16 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre for Economic Policy Research | 59 |
| 2 | National Bureau of Economic Research | 27 |
| 3 | Institut für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung | 25 |
| 4 | Maastricht University | 23 |
| 5 | London School of Economics and Political Science | 21 |
| 6 | German Institute for Economic Research | 20 |
| 7 | Monash University | 18 |
| 8 | University of Bonn | 18 |
| 9 | Centre for European Economic Research | 17 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany | 589 |
| 2 | United States | 185 |
| 3 | United Kingdom | 182 |
| 4 | Italy | 88 |
| 5 | Netherlands | 63 |
| 6 | Australia | 47 |
| 7 | Spain | 43 |
| 8 | France | 41 |
| 9 | Belgium | 33 |
| 10 | Canada | 29 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | COVID-19 pandemic | 45 |
| 2 | gender differences | 43 |
| 3 | academic performance | 26 |
| 4 | educational attainment | 20 |
| 5 | labor market outcomes | 18 |
| 6 | mental health | 18 |
| 7 | Germany | 16 |
| 8 | unemployment | 15 |
| 9 | labor supply | 14 |
| 10 | labor productivity | 12 |
Most-cited papers#
In OpenAlex#
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Nonprofit |
| Location | Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany |
| Also known as | IZA, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit GmbH (IZA), Institute for the Study of Labor |
| Works in OpenAlex | 32,164 |
| Citations | 1,047,051 |
| h-index | 333 |
| i10-index | 16,520 |
| 2-year mean citedness | 2.69 |
| Website | www.iza.org |
| ROR | ror.org/029s44460 |
| OpenAlex | openalex.org/I197518295 |
| # | Topic | Field | Works |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Labor market dynamics and wage inequality | Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 10,085 |
| 2 | Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics | Social Sciences | 3,909 |
| 3 | Migration and Labor Dynamics | Social Sciences | 3,028 |
| 4 | Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies | Social Sciences | 2,525 |
| 5 | Income, Poverty, and Inequality | Social Sciences | 2,094 |
| Year | Works in OpenAlex | Citations received | In the tracked journals | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (so far) | 490 | 32,187 | 63 | 12.9% |
| 2025 | 1,126 | 49,037 | 144 | 12.8% |
| 2024 | 1,243 | 54,666 | 202 | 16.3% |
| 2023 | 1,220 | 58,457 | 180 | 14.8% |
| 2022 | 1,347 | 57,918 | 185 | 13.7% |
| 2021 | 1,276 | 57,010 | 195 | 15.3% |
| 2020 | 1,476 | 50,342 | 182 | 12.3% |
| 2019 | 1,147 | 43,903 | 149 | 13.0% |
| 2018 | 1,366 | 40,281 | 163 | 11.9% |
| 2017 | 1,355 | 37,943 | 170 | 12.5% |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | Job insecurity and health: evidence from older European workers | Empirical Economics | Eduard Suari‐Andreu, Tim Schwartz, Max van Lent et al. | Leiden University; Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement; SEO Amsterdam Economics; … |
| 2026-10-16 | Incomplete insurance and open-economy spillovers of labor market reforms | European Economic Review | Brigitte Hochmuth, Christian Merkl, Heiko Stüber | University of Copenhagen; Centre for Economic Policy Research; Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg; … |
| 2026-10-06 | The impact of comprehensive student support on crime: Evidence from the pathways to education program | Journal of Urban Economics | Adam Lavecchia, Philip Oreopoulos, Noah Spencer | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics; McMaster University; University of Toronto |
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Scholar4AI. (2026). IZA - Institute of Labor Economics. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/iza-institute-of-labor-economics
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