Field of research: Labor Economics
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Daniel S. Hamermesh is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin and Royal Holloway, University of London. His research has concentrated on time use, labor demand, discrimination, academic labor markets, and unusual applications of labor economics (to beauty, sleep and suicide). In 2013 he received the biennial Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to Labor Economics of the Society of Labor Economists. In 2019 Oxford University Press published his Spending Time: The Most Valuable Resource.
Perihan Saygin
Perihan is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Economics at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Economics, IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies, Italy, and she conducted her research for her PhD dissertation as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining the UAB, she worked at the University of Mannheim, Germany, the World Bank, Washington, DC, and University of Florida, USA.
Ellam Kulati
Ellam is a Ph.D. researcher at CenEA and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Warsaw. He holds a MA in Economics from the University of Warsaw, and a Bachelor’s in Economics from the University of Nairobi. His research interests include the economics of ageing, household, labour and behavioural economics.
Mihails Hazans
Dr. Mihails Hazans is a Professor of econometrics at the University of Latvia, a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics, a Global Labor Organization (GLO) Fellow, and a Research Associate at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS).
His research focuses on migration, ethnic minorities, human capital, teleworking, informal employment and envelope wages. Professor Hazans has contributed chapters to books published by Springer (3), Ashgate, Edward Elgar and OECD Publishing, as well as published articles in academic journals such as Economica, Empirica, Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations and the Journal of Population Economics.
(Last updated October 2022)
Juan Pablo Rud
Juan Pablo Rud is a Professor of Economics at Royal Holloway, University of London, and a research affiliate at IFS and IZA. His research on development and labor economics has a focus on environment, climate change, agriculture, and natural resources. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2008.
(Last updated October 2022)
Michal Myck
Michał Myck is the director of CenEA and professor at the Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences. He previously worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies in London and at the DIW-Berlin. He received his B.A. and M.Phil. degrees at the University of Oxford, Ph.D. degree at the University of Warsaw (2006) and completed his habilitation at the Free University Berlin (2015). He is affiliated as Privatdozent at the University of Greifswald. His work focuses on labor and health economics and applied micro-econometrics.
(Last updated April 2026)
Guram Lobzhanidze
Guram Lobzhanidze is a Researcher at the ISET Policy Institute’s Energy and Environmental Policy Research Center. He holds an MA degree in Economics from the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET). Mr. Lobzhanidze is responsible for producing monthly reports on the Georgian electricity market, writing blogs on economic topics, and working on research projects. His research interests include labor economics, energy economics, and microeconomic theory.
(Last updated November 2021)
Alma Kudebayeva
Alma Kudebayeva is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics, KIMEP University and CERGE-EI teaching fellow, specializing in issues of poverty, inequality and labor economics.
She did a post-doc position at the German Institute of Economic Research DIW in 2010 and she holds a doctorate in mathematics from al-Farabi Kazakh National University and in development economics from the University of Manchester.
(Last updated March 2020)
Maryia Akulava
Maryia Akulava graduated from the Belarusian State Economic University (BSEU) with a specialist degree in Economic Cybernetics in 2005. She obtained her MA degree in Economics from the Kyiv School of Economics (former EERC) in 2008. Since September 2009, Maryia has been working at BEROC and currently holds a position of researcher. Her research interests include labor economics, gender issues, privatization, and SMEs.
Maryia is head of the Belarusian team of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM).
(Last updated June 2021)
Pavlo Iavorskyi
Pavlo Iavorskyi is a Research Associate and Teaching Fellow at Kyiv School of Economics. He obtained Master’s degree in Economics at University of Houston in 2011.
He was involved as a researcher and project manager in various policy projects in fields of international trade, public finance and public procurement, public health and tobacco control, anti-corruption and SME development, decentralization and local development.
(Last updated February 2021)