People
CELSI Management
Marta Kahancová, PhD.
- Founder and Managing Director
- PhD University of Amsterdam (2007)
- Research areas
- Caring Societies, New Forms of Work, Inequalities and Vulnerabilities, Welfare and Labour Policy, Social Dialogue and Collective Bargaining
Martin Kahanec, PhD.
- Founder and Scientific Director
- PhD Tilburg University (2006)
- Research areas
- (Labour) Data and Measurement, Labour Mobility, Inequalities and Vulnerabilities, Welfare and Labour Policy
- Publications
The Guardian reports on Martin Kahanec's paper: No 'welfare migration' in the EU
Kahanec's new journal article on how migration may reduce inequality
Kahanec's new journal article on working hours of immigrants in Germany
An article co-authored by Martin Kahanec on pitfalls of immigrant inclusion into welfare published in the International Journal of Manpower
Analýza: Berú Slováci prácu Nemcom?
Press Release: Children, education pays off!
Forthcoming article in Transfer on youth unemployment by Kahanec and Fabo
CELSI's research results quoted in the daily Hospodarske noviny
Martin Kahanec quoted by German Wirtschafts Woche
Press Release: Welfare benefits no magnet for migrants, research confirms
Press Release: Inequalities have significantly deepened in Slovakia
Martin Kahanec live on BBC World News: Migrants do not respond to welfare generosity
An article co-authored by Martin Kahanec debunking the welfare magnet hypothesis published in the International Journal of Manpower
Political Economy of Immigration in Germany: Attitudes and Citizenship Aspiration
Migration, Ethnicity and Identity in Host Labor Markets (Journal Special Issue)
Martin Kahanec's new research report on Roma inclusion
Martin Kahanec to cooperate on research report on integration of minorities
Príčinou nárastu nerovností na Slovensku bol najmä nárast príjmov u vybraných skupín obyvateľstva, zatiaľ čo iným skupinám príjmy rástli pomalšie. Najviac rástli príjmy vysokoškolsky vzdelaným ľuďom a
SME daily, op-ed: Does Slovakia want integration of the Roma people?
SITA: Austria and Germany should not fear immigration
The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide
Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain
Migration to U.K. rising, data show
Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison
A new study on lessons from European mobility authored by Martin Kahanec now published by the World Bank
CELSI Researchers co-author a research report on social protection rights
Press Release: Gender Pay Gap in Journalism all over the World (Slovak language)
EC: The 'Study on Active Inclusion of Migrants' with Martin Kahanec as a lead author out now
Article on the welfare magnet myth by Martin Kahanec covered by Handelsblatt, Focus among others
Forthcoming article on unemployment benefits and immigration by Martin Kahanec
Martin Kahanec for Businessweek, Bloomberg: Public works do not help to transit into regular employment
Martin Kahanec's book about ethnic diversity in European labor markets out now
Forthcoming article on ethnic job-search strategies by Martin Kahanec
Martin Kahanec's academic article to appear as a lead article in Economics of Transition
EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration
Influx of immigrants is 'without precedent'
IZA World of Labor article by Martin Kahanec: Roma integration in European labor markets
Martin Kahanec for BBC: Hungarian national labor plan is a 'lemon'
Kahanec and Kureková contribute to The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Wiley-Blackwell
High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe
Martin Kahanec's article "Labour market impacts of post-enlargement migration on hosts and stayers in EU labour markets" published in Transfer Special Issue
Kahanec and Fertig project potential flows to the EU from Ukraine, Croatia and other eastern neighbors
Kahanec's article on Labor Market Impacts of Post-Enlargement Migration on Hosts and Stayers in EU Labor Market forthcoming in Transfer
Martin Kahanec took part in Slovak Television debate: Europe needs immigrants
SME daily, op-ed: Come back our golden boys - and girls!
Slovak Spectator: Austrian and German labour markets are opened to Slovaks
SME daily, op-ed: The labor market can be saved by immigrants and the Roma
SME daily, op-ed: Čo má spoločné Kuzminová s narkobarónmi?
Denník SME, komentár: Bez vedy a vzdelania to na Slovensku nepôjde
Slovak spectator: Ageing of population is a serious problem
Hospodárske noviny daily: Decreasing real wages mark labor market flexibility
Slovak Spectator: Slovak youth unemployment
MF Dnes, interview: We will measure also students' salaries soon...
SME daily: People are willing to do it, especially in the Czech Republic
Tlačová správa: Ženy a mladí ľudia bez vzdelania sú na trhu práce takmer bez šance
New publication by Kahanec and Fabo: "Can a voluntary web survey be useful beyond explorative research? "
An article co-authored by M. Kahanec, M. Guzi and L. Mýtna Kureková "How Immigration Grease Is Affected by Economic, Institutional, and Policy Contexts: Evidence from EU Labor Markets"
An article co-authored by Kahanec and Guzi "How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust during the Great Recession" published in the International Journal of Manpower
Martin Kahanec published a new book chapters "A Sustainable Immigration Policy for the EU" and “EU Mobility”
CELSI's study for the European Parliament's Policy Department for Economic and Scientific Policy has been published
Press release: CELSI Director Martin Kahanec elected as a full member of the Academia Europea as the first Slovak in the social and related sciences
Kahanec and Zimmerman publish new book "Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession"
CELSI's updated study for European Parliament's committee on Employment and Social Affairs has been published
ELA report on undeclared work in the personal and household services sector released
International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Martin Kahanec and Marta Kahancová recently published an essay "Economic Research in the Visegrad Countries: An Insiders’ World on Europe’s Periphery"
CELSI researchers Martin Guzi and Martin Kahanec, along with Lucia Mýtna Kureková just published a new article in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
CELSI co-founder and director Martin Kahanec co-authored a research article on the impact of transitional arrangements on migrants' self-employment
CELSI team published a co-authored study on how institutions shape immigrant-native labor market gaps in Europe in Migration Studies
CELSI co-founder and director Martin Kahanec published a chapter on education in CEPR book on Rebuilding Ukraine: Principles and Policies
CELSI team published an article on industrial relations in the V4 during the COVID-19 pandemic
CELSI team co-authored a chapter in the book "Digital Labour Markets in Central and Eastern European Countries: COVID-19 and the Future of Work"
Pravda daily: The European Union fights against poverty
Hospodárske noviny: Richter dá Bratislavčanom menej
SME daily: How will opening of markets by Germany and Austria affect Slovak migration?
SME daily, interview: Austria and Germany have punished themselves
Press release: Statement of the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) on the imminent threat to academic freedoms and the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest
Press release: Young migrants from new EU member states: Why they want to leave, and do they want to come back?
Denník SME, komentár: Slovenské univerzity a veda: málo muziky za málo peňazí
CELSI Team
Jakub Barszcz
- Researcher
- Research areas
- Just Transition Green Transition Digital Transition
Pavol Bors
- Researcher
- Research areas
- Caring Societies, Labour Mobility, Welfare and Labour Policy, Green and Digital Transitions
Simona Brunnerová
- Researcher
- Research areas
- Care, Inequalities and Vulnerabilities, Social Dialogue and Collective Bargaining
Ines Chrťan
- Junior Researcher
- Research areas
- Labour Mobility, Transnational Migration, Labour Migration, Gender Aspects of Migration, Gender Dynamic
Olena Fedyuk
- Senior Researcher
- Research areas
- Labour Mobility, Transnational Migration, Legitimacy of the Borders, Indigenous Peoples, Claim-making and Place-making within and beyond Nation-states
Kristína Gotthardová
- Junior Researcher
- Research areas
- Social Dialogue and Collective Bargaining, Gender Equality, Gender-based Violence
Martin Guzi, PhD.
- Senior Researcher
- CERGE-EI and Comenius University
- Research areas
- (Labour) Data and Measurement, Labour Mobility
Lenka Hanulová
- Junior Researcher
- Research areas
- Caring Societies, Inequalities and Vulnerabilities, Social Dialogue and Collective Bargaining
Barbora Holubová, PhD.
- Senior Researcher
- Research areas
- Caring Societies, Inequalities and Vulnerabilities, Green and Digital Transitions
Monika Martišková, PhD.
- Senior Researcher
- Research areas
- Caring Societies, Labour Mobility, Green and Digital Transitions
Tibor T Meszmann, PhD.
- Senior Researcher
- Research areas
- New Forms of Work, Labour Mobility
Serhii Shokha
- Research Assistant
- Research areas
- Social Dialogue and Collective Bargaining, Green and Digital Transformation, Labour Mobility
Adam Šumichrast, PhD.
- Researcher
- PhD Masaryk university (2024)
- Research areas
- Trade unionism and labor movements; Industrial relations; Collective bargaining and social dialogue; Industrial unrest
Research Fellows
Daniela Andrén
- Research Fellow
- Örebro University, Örebro
- Research areas
- Labor markets and institutions Social insurance Policy evaluation Health Economics
In Memoriam: Sabina Avdagic
- Research Fellow
- University of Sussex, Brighton
- Research areas
- Comparative political economy, Comparative labour relations and welfare states, Institutional analysis, Research design and methodology
Anna Baranowska-Rataj
- Research Fellow
- Research areas
- Youth Labor Market Integration, Female Labour Supply, Fertility Consequences
Rolf Bergs
- Research Fellow
- Policy Research & Consultancy (PRAC) Partnership Co.
- Research areas
- EU Cohesion Policy and Market Integration, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Small-scale Spatial Data and Satellite Image Analysis
Magdalena Bernaciak
- Research Fellow
- Department of Politics and European Studies at the American University in Bulgaria (AUBG)
- Research areas
- Political economy of EU eastern enlargement, Industrial relations in Central-Eastern Europe, Transnational relations among trade unions
Katharina Bluhm
- Research Fellow
- Freien Universität Berlin, Berlin
- Research areas
- Varieties of Capitalism and Labour Relations in Central and Eastern Europe, Economic Elites in International Comparison, Corporate Social Responsibility and Cohesion, SME in East-West Comparison
Dorothee Bohle
- Research Fellow
- European University Institute
- Research areas
- Labour markets and institutions
J. David Brown
- Research Fellow
- Research areas
- Firm- and worker-level Effects of Public policies, Privatization, Productivity, Immigration
Sebastian Buhai
- Research Fellow
- Aarhus University, Aarhus
- Research areas
- Labor Economics, Microeconometrics, Real Options, Personnel Economics, Economics of Education, Social Networks, Empirical Industrial Organization
Ayse Caglar
- Research Fellow
- University Wien, Wien
- Research areas
- Globalization and Transnationalization processes, Migration, Urban Restructuring and Migrants, Cultural Industries, Transnational Legal Spaces, Citizenship, Roma in Europe, European Cultural Policies, Immigrant Cultural Production and Cultural Industries
Juan Carlos Cuestas
- Research Fellow
- Research areas
- European Integration, Unemployment Dynamics and Structural change, Debt
juan.carlos.cuestas@eestipank.ee
Jan Czarzasty
- Research Fellow
- Warsaw School of Economics (SGH), Warsaw
- Research areas
- Industrial relations, Social dialogue, Organisational culture
Raul Eamets
- Research Fellow
- University of Tartu, Tartu
- Research areas
- Labour market flows , flexibility, policies Education and labour markets Employment and unemployment in Estonia During transition Hidden labour market (incl. hidden unemployment)
John Earle
- Research Fellow
- Central European University, Budapest
- Research areas
- Firm-level and worker-level effects of public policies Political economy Firm performance Privatization and corporate governance
Brian Fabo
- Research Fellow
- National Bank of Slovakia and Slovak Academy of Sciences
- Research areas
- labor market, monetary policy, big data
Jan Fidrmuc
- Research Fellow
- Brunel University, London
- Research areas
- Political economy Migration Labor-market institutions (especially minimum wage rules) Marriage market
Carola Frege
- Research Fellow
- London School of Economics, London
- Research areas
- Comparative employment relations Trade unions Industrial democracy Migration and racism
Teresa García-Muñoz
- Research Fellow
- University of Granada
- Research areas
- Happiness, Subjective Wellbeing, Subjective Health, Migration, Economics of Religion
Béla Greskovits
- Research Fellow
- Central European University, Budapest
- Research areas
- Political and social impact of leading transnational industries in Eastern Europe Politics of enlargement of the Eurozone Democratization South American and Eastern European political and economic development, economic ideologies, politics of policy making
Igor Guardiancich
- Research Fellow
- University of Southern Denmark
- Research areas
- European social policy, pensions, Central and Eastern European welfare states, varieties of capitalism, political economy of transition
igor.guardiancich@eui.eu • igor.guardiancich@gmail.com • igu@sam.sdu.dk
Marek Góra
- Research Fellow
- Warsaw School of Economics, Warszawa
- Research areas
- Pension economics, pension reforms Labour economics Macroeconomics Economic and social policy
Mihails Hazans
- Research Fellow
- University of Latvia, Riga
- Research areas
- Migration, commuting Economics of education Ethnic minorities Labour supply Determinants of earnings Active labour market policies Informal employment
Ágnes Hárs
- Research Fellow
- KOPINT-TARKI Economic Research Institute Ltd, Budapest
- Research areas
- Labour Economics Economics of Migration Regional Economics Economics of Shortage
Jana Javornik
- Research Fellow
- Research areas
- welfare state, comparative social and public policy (focus on work-family policy), female labour supply and parental employment, work-family reconciliation, employers’ initiatives, gender inequalities, people's lived experiences; sustainability, equalities and social justice as cross-cutting themes
Štěpán Jurajda
- Research Fellow
- CERGE-EI, Prague
- Research areas
- International wage comparisons Gender differences on the labour market and in education Order effects
Arunas Juska
- Research Fellow
- East Carolina University in Greenville, USA
- Research areas
- Baltic states Post-socialist politics and labor policies Crime and policing Rural development Community organizing
Peter Katuščák
- Research Fellow
- CERGE-EI, Prague
- Research areas
- Experimental economics Effect of taxes on labor supply and labor contracts
Martin Krzywdzinski
- Research Fellow
- Berlin Social Research Center (WZB), Berlin
- Research areas
- Labor relations International division of labor Multinational companies Emerging economies
Jaan Masso
- Research Fellow
- University of Tartu, Tartu
- Research areas
- Earnings inequality Labour demand Labour market institutions
Guglielmo Meardi
- Research Fellow
- University of Warwick, Coventry
- Research areas
- Migration Multinational companies Comparative industrial relations
Michael Moritz
- Research Fellow
- IAB – Institute for Employment Research
- Research areas
- Economic integration, Regional labour markets, Border region studies
Adam Mrozowicki
- Research Fellow
- University of Wrocław, Wrocław
- Research areas
- Comparative industrial relations in the Central and Eastern Europe Trade union revitalisation and Trade union organising
Karol Muszyński
- Research Fellow
- Research areas
- Labour law, non-standard employment, industrial relations, socio-legal studies
Martin Myant
- Research Fellow
- University of the West of Scotland
- Research areas
- Economic transformation in East-Central Europe Employment relations Trade unions
Lucia Mýtna Kureková, PhD.
- Research Fellow
- Slovak Governance Institute, Bratislava
- Research areas
- Labor Migration and Labor Markets Employment and ethnicity
Shoshana Neuman
- Research Fellow
- Department of Economics at Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
- Research areas
- Migration; Labor Markets: segregation, discrimination, job quality, gender/ethnic/migrant-native differences; Health Economics; Older Populations in Europe; Low-Employability Populations - Policies for integration into the labor market
Elena Nikolova
- Research Fellow
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Research areas
- Political economy, migration, entrepreneurship, politics and economics of transition
Milena Nikolova
- Research Fellow
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- Research areas
- subjective well-being, labor economics, transition economies, entrepreneurship
David Ost
- Research Fellow
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York
- Research areas
- Labor Studies Class analysis Political economy Democratization
Filip Pertold
- Research Fellow
- Aarhus University, Aarhus
- Research areas
- Personnel, Labour and Health Economics Sickness Absenteeism Social Interactions and Health Outcomes Policy Evaluation Labor Supply of Older Workers
Mariola Pytlikova
- Research Fellow
- Aarhus University, Aarhus
- Research areas
- Labour Economics International Migration Workforce Diversity Wage Structures and Labour Market Dynamics Gender Wage Gap Earnings Inequality Industrial Organizations
Monica Roman
- Research Fellow
- Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest
- Research areas
- Economics of international migration Labor and demographic economics Regional studies and transition economies Public policy evaluation
Dumitru Sandu
- Research Fellow
- University of Bucharest, Bucharest
- Research areas
- Migration Community and Regional Development State of mind sociology (life satisfaction, optimism, trust) European integration and identification
Elizardo Scarpati Costa
- Research Fellow
- Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), Brazil
- Research areas
- Sociology of work, Labor markets, collective bargaining; Social classes; Labor law; work in Latin American countries
Zuzana Siebertová
- Research Fellow
- Council for Budget Responsibility
- Research areas
- Labour markets, Tax and transfer system reforms, Microeconometrics, Microsimulations
Miroslav Stanojević
- Research Fellow
- University of Ljubljana
- Research areas
- Industrial relations (broad definition)
Miroslav.Stanojevic@fdv.uni-lj.si
Max Friedrich Steinhardt
- Research Fellow
- Hamburg Institute of International Economics, Hamburg
- Research areas
- Economics of migration Labour economics Applied microeconometrics Regional economics Political economy
Aurora Trif
- Research Fellow
- Dublin City University Business School, Dublin
- Research areas
- Political economy of public sector employment Comparative industrial relations Comparative welfare state research
Sofia Karina Trommlerová, PhD.
- Research Fellow
- Research areas
- Welfare and Labour Policy, Family Economics, Gender, Health, Economic Demography, Development Economics
sofia.trommlerova@graduateinstitute.ch
Ganna (Hanna) Vakhitova
- Research Fellow
- Kyiv School of Economics, Ukraine
- Research areas
- Labour migration and it's skills dimension Remittances and spending by left behind Migration, remittances and development Education and skills Private employment agencies and their role in migration Migration and occupation mobility Social policy and poverty reduction Impact evaluation
Pieter Vanhuysse
- Research Fellow
- European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna
- Research areas
- Theory and politics of welfare states Political sociology and political economy of public policies Central and Eastern European policy pathways Comparative human capital politics and social investment policies Comparative welfare regime models and varieties of democratic capitalism in Western and Eastern Europe The political and policy aspects of generational conflict and population aging
Mihai Varga
- Research Fellow
- European University Institute, Florence
- Research areas
- Patterns of working-class mobilization and organization in post-communist countries
Alessandra Venturini
- Research Fellow
- University of Turin, Turin
- Research areas
- Effects of migration Foreigners’ assimilation in the destination country Remittances and high skilled migration in sending countries Circular and irregular migration
Jelle Visser
- Research Fellow
- AIAS, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
- Research areas
- Social pacts in Europe Trade unions European integration and its interaction with national employment policies and labour relations Migration of labour and services Regulation of non-standard employment The EU posted workers regime
Milan Vodopivec
- Research Fellow
- University of Primorska, Faculty of Management, Koper, Slovenia; Research Fellow, IZA
- Research areas
- Labor markets and institutions Labor market dynamics Unemployment insurance
Charles Woolfson
- Research Fellow
- Linköping University, Linköping
- Research areas
- Labour migration Industrial relations Working environment New EU member states
Anželika Zaiceva
- Research Fellow
- University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena
- Research areas
- Labour economics Migration Economics of transition
Jan Švejnar
- Research Fellow
- Columbia University, New York
- Research areas
- Economic development and transition Labor economics Behavior of the firm
Research Affiliates
Lucia Kováčová
- Researcher
- Research areas
- (Labour) Data and Measurement, New Forms of Work, Labour Mobility, Inequalities and Vulnerabilities, Welfare and Labour Policy, Social Dialogue and Collective Bargaining
Ivana Palinkas
- Research Affiliate
- Tilburg University, Tilburg
- Research areas
- European labour law and industrial relations Europeanisation of industrial relations in Central and Eastern Europe Decentralisation of collective bargaining
i.palinkas@tilburguniversity.edu
Imre Gergely Szabó
- Research Affiliate
- Central European University, Budapest
- Research areas
- Political economy of public sector employment Comparative industrial relations Comparative welfare state research
szabo_imre-gergely@ceu-budapest.edu
CELSI Alumni
Matej Bašták
- Research Assistant and IT Support
- Research areas
- Wage comparison (Salary Calculators) Website management Data management
Anna Fidrmuc
- Research Assistant
- Research areas
- (Labour) Data and Measurement, Social Dialogue and Collective Bargaining
Jana Franeková
- Data Analyst
- Research areas
- Data management Website management
Katarína Gandžalová
- Data Analyst
- Research areas
- Data Analysis Data Management
Mária Holecyová
- SEO manager for WageIndicator
- Research areas
- Search Engine Optimization Website Management
Magdaléna Janečková
- Data Analyst
- Research areas
- Data Analysis Data Management
Rick Jimenez
- Data Analyst
- Research areas
- Data Analysis Dataset Management International Trade and effects on Labour markets
Ivan Kahanec
- Traditional and New Media Advisor
- Research areas
- Public And Media Relations Social Media Manager
Karlo Kostanjevec
- Intern
- Research areas
- Economic policies Labour market policies Development policies
Katarína Lukáčová
- Researcher
- Research areas
- Green and Digital Transitions, Social Dialogue and Collective Bargaining, Welfare and Labour Policy, Labour Mobility
Tomáš Mamrilla
- Researcher and Data Manager
- Research areas
- Comparative wage developments Data management and analysis
Mario Munta
- Intern
- Research areas
- Welfare states Labour market policies Employment policies
Mária Sedláková
- Researcher
- Research areas
- Industrial relations, employment policies, social dialogue, collective bargaining
Bálint Ván
- Intern
- Research areas
- Distribution Methods of Scholarships Economic History of Real Estate Markets in Budapest Social Mobility and Advanced Colleges in Hungary
Nick Wallace
- Research Assistant
- Central European University, Budapest Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals, Barcelona
- Research areas
- Underemployment and the skills gap Internships and professional training Labour market policy analysis
Zuzana Šmehýlová
- Data Analyst
- Research areas
- Wage developments Data management and analysis