Martin Kahanec
Martin Kahanec is an Associate Professor at the University of Economics in Bratislava. Professor at the School of Public Policy at the Central European University in Budapest. Founder and Scientific Director of CELSI, Bratislava. Affiliated Scholar at the Global Labor Organization and Centre for Population, Development and Labour Economics (POP), MERIT, United Nations University, Maastricht. Visiting Research Fellow and former Deputy Program Director “Migration”, leader of the research sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets and Deputy Director of Research (2009) at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Labor and Worklife Program 2014/15. His main research interests are labor and population economics, migration, ethnicity, and reforms in European labor markets. He has published in peer-reviewed academic journals, contributed chapters in collected volumes including the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (OxfordUP) and the International Handbook on the Economics of Migration (Edward Elgar), and he has edited several scientific book volumes and journal special issues. He has held several advisory positions and leading roles in a number of scientific and policy projects with the World Bank, the European Commission, European Parliament, European Court of Auditors, OECD, and other international and national institutions.
