Mincer Award
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In 2004 Jacob Mincer
Jacob Mincer
Jacob Mincer , was a father of modern labor economics. He was Joseph L. Buttenwiser Professor of Economics and Social Relations at Columbia University for most of his active life.-Biography:...

 received a Career Achievement Award from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...

's Society of Labor Economists (SOLE). The annual award has subsequently become known as the "Mincer Award", and is given annually to an individual that has made a lifetime of important contributions to the field of labor economics.

There will be two (2) awards per year for the first five (5) years of the award. The issue of numbers of awards and their frequency will be visited by the Society of Labor Economists Executive Board between the fourth and fifth years of this award.
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