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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Labour Economics (Education, Gender, International migration);
Microeconometric Applications;
Comparative Economic Systems and Transition economies
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Frontiers in the Economics of Gender (co-edited with F.Bettio), Routledge Siena Studies in Political Economy, Routledge, 2008.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus” (co-authored with F. Pastore) in R.Kanbur and J.Svejnar (eds) Labour Markets and Economic Development, Routledge, 2009.
“The Transition from a Planned to a Market Economy: How Are Women Faring?” (co-authored with M. Malysheva) in F.Bettio and A.Verashchagina (eds) Frontiers in the Economics of Gender, Routledge Siena Studies in Political Economy, Routledge, 2008.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
In English
"The Inheritance of Educational Inequality: International Comparisons and Fifty-Year Trends", (co-authored with T. Hertz, T. Jayasundera, P. Piraino, S. Selcuk and N. Smith), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2007, 7(2) (Advances), Article 10.
[Winner of the BE Press 2007 Arrow Prize for Junior Economists]
“The Distribution of Wages in Belarus” (co-authored with F. Pastore), Comparative Economic Studies, 2006, 48(2): 351–376.
“Private Returns to Human Capital over Transition. A Case Study of Belarus” (co-authored with F. Pastore), Economics of Education Review, 2006, 25(1): 91-107.
“The Gender Wage Gap in Belarus” (co-authored with F. Pastore), Transition Studies Review, 2005, 12(3): 497-511.
“Slow and Steady Wins the Race? An Appraisal of Ten Years of Economic Transition” (co-authored with F. Pastore), Economia Politica, 2004, 21(3): 437-458.
“The Patterns of Economic Transition in the Commonwealth of Independent States” (co-authored with F. Pastore), EMERGO Journal of Transforming Economies and Societies, 2003, 10(1): 30-50.
In Russian
“The role of Human Capital in the Formation of Wages in Belarus” (co-authored with F. Pastore and A.M. Temichev), Belarus Economic Journal, 2005, № 3(32): 101-110. [Верещагина А., Пасторе Ф., Темичев А.М. Роль человеческого капитала в формировании доходов населения Республики Беларусь // Белорусский экономический журнал. – 2005. – № 3(32): 101-110]
WORKING PAPERS
“Education and socioeconomic mobility in post-communist countries”, BEROC WP no. 004
“When does Transition Increase the Gender Wage Gap? An Application to Belarus” (with F. Pastore), under submission.
[Available as IZA DP no. 2796 and BEROC WP no. 009]
REPORTS
“Fiscal system and female employment in Europe”, EC’s Expert Group on Gender and Employment, forthcoming in 2010
“Fiscal system and female employment in Italy” (co-authored with F.Bettio), External report commissioned by and presented to the EU
Directorate-General Employment and Social Affairs, Unit G1 'Equality between women and men', 2009
“Gender segregation in the labour market: root causes, implications and policy responses in the EU”, EC’s Expert Group on Gender and
Employment. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2009.
“Gender segregation in the labour market: root causes, implications and policy responses in Italy” (co-authored with F.Bettio) External report
commissioned by and presented to the EU Directorate-General Employment and Social Affairs, Unit G1 'Equality between women and men', 2008
POLICY NOTES
“
Gender Wage Gap in Belarus”, Beyond Transition Newsletter, Oct.-Dec. 2007, 18 (4).OTHER
[Does it pay to be more educated? Economic Newspaper, no. 31 (1348), 27th April, 2010]
(in Italian) Quando lei guadagna di più (When does she earn more?) (co-authored with F. Bettio) on-line publication at www.ingenere.it
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Dec. 2009 – Nov. 2010 EGGE network: “Elderly care in Europe. Provisions and providers in 33 countries”
Dec. 2008 – Nov. 2009 EGGE network: “Fiscal systems and female employment in Europe”
Dec. 2007 – Nov. 2008 EGGE network: “Gender segregation in the labour market: roots, implications and policy responses in the EU”
Apr. 2005 – Apr. 2007 EERC (Economics Education and Research Consortium, CIS Research Network), project №R04-1331
“The Gender Wage Gap in the Republic of Belarus”
March 2002 – Dec. 2003 CNR-NATO: “Transitional Labour Markets in the CIS”
RECENT CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
2009 “The Impact of the Economic Transition on Education, Wages, and Labour Supply”, invited lectures at the Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC), IBB, Minsk, Belarus, 21-23 April.
2008 “Intergenerational Educational Mobility under Socialism and After”, IX Global Development Network Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 29-31 January.
2007 “Overeducation and inefficiency. Individual and social outcomes in Belarus”, ATINER, Athens, Greece, 6-9 August.
2006 “On Female Labour Force Participation and their Job Remuneration in Transition” EERC, CIS Research Network, 20th Workshop, Kiev, Ukraine, 8-10 July.
2004 "The Gender Wage Gap in Belarus", 17th EERC Workshop, Moscow, Russia, 17-19 December.
2004 “Private Returns to Human Capital over Transition. The Case Study of Belarus”, XVI EALE Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 9-11 September.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Elderly care and female employment;
Economic incentives and labour supply;
Education and socioeconomic mobility;
International migration and human trafficking
Institute for the study of Labour (IZA) http://www.iza.org
Global Development Network (GDN) http://www.gdnet.org
Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC) http://www.eerc.ru
Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center (BEROC) http://www.beroc.by
Experts Group on Gender and Employment (EGGE) http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=748&langId=en
inGenere http://www.ingenere.it