The more we know, the more we don’t know… 

 

 

     RESEARCH   INTERESTS

 

         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

      “When does Transition Increase the Gender Wage Gap? An Application to Belarus” (co-authored with F. Pastore), IZA DP no. 2796.

         REPORTS

               “Gender segregation in the labour market: root causes, implications and policy responses in the EU”, European Commission, 2009.

POLICY NOTES

                “Gender Wage Gap in Belarus”, Beyond Transition Newsletter, Oct.-Dec. 2007, 18 (4).

 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

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

 

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