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title: "IZA - Institute of Labor Economics: research profile"
description: "Research profile of IZA - Institute of Labor Economics: 1,633 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and health economics and policy; h-index 333."
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share_text: "Research profile of IZA - Institute of Labor Economics: 1,633 papers in 400 tracked journals since 2017, mostly economics and health economics and policy; h-index 333. (as of 2026-11-02)"
data_url: https://scholar4ai.com/data/rankings.json
updated: 2026-11-02T12:20:52+09:00
window: 2026-10-04 to 2026-11-02
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# IZA - Institute of Labor Economics

- 0 papers in the last 7 days
- country: Germany
- web domain: iza.org

Back to the ranking: https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions.md

## 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](https://scholar4ai.com/rankings/institutions-by-year/economics.md)

## Papers per year

*Papers per publication year and category*

| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| [Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/economics.md) | 156 | 142 | 134 | 154 | 173 | 161 | 168 | 170 | 130 | 54 |
| [Health Economics and Policy](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/health-economics-and-policy.md) | 9 | 8 | 12 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 9 | 19 | 9 | 3 |
| [Management](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/management.md) | 2 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| [Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/finance.md) | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| [Higher Education and Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/higher-education-and-research.md) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| [Operations Research](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/operations-research.md) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| [Statistics](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/statistics.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| [Information Systems](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/information-systems.md) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| [Accounting](https://scholar4ai.com/categories/accounting.md) | 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

*Journals with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Journal | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Labour Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/labour-economics.md) | 59 |
| 2 | [Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-economic-behavior-organization.md) | 49 |
| 3 | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 40 |
| 4 | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 35 |
| 5 | [Journal of Development Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-development-economics.md) | 28 |
| 6 | [Economics of Education Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-of-education-review.md) | 27 |
| 7 | [Journal of Population Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-population-economics.md) | 22 |
| 8 | [Economics Letters](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/economics-letters.md) | 20 |
| 9 | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 19 |
| 10 | [Review of Economics of the Household](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/review-of-economics-of-the-household.md) | 16 |

*Institutions with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Institution | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [Centre for Economic Policy Research](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/centre-for-economic-policy-research.md) | 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](https://scholar4ai.com/institutions/monash-university.md) | 18 |
| 8 | University of Bonn | 18 |
| 9 | Centre for European Economic Research | 17 |

*Countries with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | 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 |

*Keywords with the most papers, since 2023*

| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | [COVID-19 pandemic](https://scholar4ai.com/keywords/covid-19-pandemic.md) | 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

*Most-cited papers since 2017*

| # | Citations | Per month | Title | Journal | Published | Authors |
|---:|---:|---:|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 920 | 12.8 | [Trust and compliance to public health policies in times of COVID-19](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104316) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-10-29 | Olivier Bargain, Ulugbek Aminjonov |
| 2 | 637 | 9.0 | [COVID-19, lockdowns and well-being: Evidence from Google Trends](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2020.104346) | [Journal of Public Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-public-economics.md) | 2020-11-30 | Abel Brodeur, Andrew Eric Clark, Sarah Flèche et al. |
| 3 | 583 | 5.4 | [Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation: Evidence from a half million chinese manufacturing plants](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2017.11.001) | [Journal of Environmental Economics and Management](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-environmental-economics-and-management.md) | 2017-11-08 | Peng Zhang, Olivier Deschênes, Kyle C. Meng et al. |
| 4 | 506 | 8.1 | [Individual-level loss aversion in riskless and risky choices](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11238-021-09839-8) | [Theory and Decision](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/theory-and-decision.md) | 2021-08-23 | Simon Gächter, Eric J. Johnson, Andreas Peter Herrmann |
| 5 | 499 | 6.7 | [Forecasting and planning during a pandemic: COVID-19 growth rates, supply chain disruptions, and governmental decisions](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.08.001) | [European Journal of Operational Research](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-operational-research.md) | 2020-08-07 | Konstantinos I. Nikolopoulos, Sushil Punia, Andreas Schäfers et al. |
| 6 | 488 | 7.9 | [Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-021-00544-y) | [Small Business Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/small-business-economics.md) | 2021-09-12 | Maksim Belitski, Christina Guenther, Alexander S. Kritikos et al. |
| 7 | 382 | 4.5 | [Temperature and mental health: Evidence from the spectrum of mental health outcomes](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102240) | [Journal of Health Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-health-economics.md) | 2019-10-04 | Jamie T. Mullins, Corey White |
| 8 | 376 | 3.8 | [Predicting the direction of stock market prices using tree-based classifiers](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.najef.2018.06.013) | [The North American Journal of Economics and Finance](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/the-north-american-journal-of-economics-and-finance.md) | 2018-07-07 | Suryoday Basak, Saibal Kar, Snehanshu Saha et al. |
| 9 | 362 | 3.2 | [Conducting interactive experiments online](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-017-9527-2) | [Experimental Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/experimental-economics.md) | 2017-05-09 | Antonio A. Arechar, Simon Gächter, Lucas Molleman |
| 10 | 329 | 4.2 | [Female political representation and substantive effects on policies: A literature review](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2020.101896) | [European Journal of Political Economy](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-journal-of-political-economy.md) | 2020-05-04 | Zohal Hessami, Mariana Lopes da Fonseca |

## In OpenAlex

*IZA - Institute of Labor Economics 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](https://www.iza.org/) |
| ROR | [ror.org/029s44460](https://ror.org/029s44460) |
| OpenAlex | [openalex.org/I197518295](https://openalex.org/I197518295) |

*Works and citations per year in OpenAlex, and its papers in the tracked journals*

| 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% |

*Main research topics (OpenAlex, all works)*

| # | 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 |

From OpenAlex's own record of the institution (CC0), read again monthly. Works and citations count everything OpenAlex indexes, not only the tracked journals; topics are OpenAlex's classification of those works.

*Papers, newest first.*

| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-23 | [Job insecurity and health: evidence from older European workers](https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-026-02992-5) | [Empirical Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/empirical-economics.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2026.105497) | [European Economic Review](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/european-economic-review.md) | 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](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2026.103925) | [Journal of Urban Economics](https://scholar4ai.com/journals/journal-of-urban-economics.md) | Adam Lavecchia, Philip Oreopoulos, Noah Spencer | IZA - Institute of Labor Economics; McMaster University; University of Toronto |

## Cite this page

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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