Associate Professor Urszula Sztandar-Sztanderska

Published on Tuesday, 10 June 2014 00:21

Research Advisor in Education Economics Unit. Professor in the Macroeconomics and International Trade Theory Division at the Department of Economics of the University of Warsaw, Chair of the Labour Market Council in PKPP "Lewiatan" (Polish Confederation of Employers), the director of the Centre for Labour Market Research at the University of Warsaw, a member of the Committee on Employment of the Polish Academy of Sciences, author and co-author of over 140 scientific publications and a number of publications promoting economics especially in the area of the labour market and its relation to macroeconomic processes. Her interests focus on: unemployment, especially structural interdependence of education and the labour market, institutional determinants of the functioning of the labour market, causes of differences in the labour market from territorial and qualifications perspective, sources of differences in participation by gender and the impact of opening up the economy on employment, as well as the effectiveness of economic policy in relation to the labour market and conditioned by the market and, recently, economics of education.

In recent years, she directed or co-directed the work which resulted in the reports: "Analysis of the situation in selected district labour markets and the creation of a methodology for examining the local labour market in Poland" (MLSP 2006), "Education for Work" (UNDP 2007), "Occupational and Educational Activity and family responsibilities" (IBnGR 2007), "Deactivation of people approaching retirement age"(MLSP 2008), "What does (doesn't) Polish school teach?"(FOR 2008), "Study of professional activity of graduates"(MLSP 2008), "Structural and cultural determinants of women's labour in Poland" (Scholar 2009).