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.
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 Institut
e 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.
