People
Research Fellows
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
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)
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
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