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Martin Kahanec

Martin Kahanec (* April 28, 1977, Rožňava) is a Slovak economist, professor, and former dean (2017-2019 and 2020-21) and currently head of the Department of Public Policy at Central European University in Vienna.[1] He is also the research director and one of the two co-founders (with his wife Marta Kahancová) of the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) in Bratislava.[2] According to the RePEc database of economic scientific publications, Martin Kahanec has long been the most productive economist in Slovakia and ranks among the top 100 economists worldwide in the field of migration.[3]

Biography

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Martin Kahanec obtained both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Comenius University in Bratislava and a Master of Arts in economics from Central European University in Budapest. He earned his PhD at Tilburg University in the Netherlands in 2006. During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting PhD student at the Toulouse School of Economics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and CERGE-EI at Charles University in Prague.[4]

In 2005, he joined the Institute for Labour Research (IZA) in Bonn as a research fellow, and in 2009, he became deputy research director at the institute. In 2008, he co-founded the Central European Labour Studies Institute. In 2010, he joined Central European University in Budapest as an assistant professor, where he was promoted to associate professor in 2012 and full professor in 2016. He was appointed dean of the School of Public Policy at CEU in 2017. Over the years, he has held several academic and advisory positions, including Mercator Senior Fellow at the Bruegel Institute, consultant for the World Bank, and visiting researcher at Harvard University.[4]

Martin Kahanec is the chair of the Economics, Business, and Management Sciences section of Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences.[1] He is also an affiliated researcher and member of the advisory board at the Global Labour Organization, as well as a research fellow at the University of Economics in Bratislava. Kahanec is a member of the Board of Trustees at Comenius University in Bratislava[5], the Slovak Republic's Government Council for Science, Technology, and Innovation[6], and the Scientific Council of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs of the Czech Republic. He has also served on the Slovak Ministry of Finance's national advisory board for economic crisis management during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As president of the Slovak Economic Association (2016-2018), Kahanec assumed the rotating presidency of the Visegrád Group's cooperation between Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Slovak economic societies in 2018. In 2016-17, he served as a member of the EU Expert Group for Auditing Labour Mobility at the European Court of Auditors.[1]

Kahanec is an editor for several academic journals: Economic Systems, Journal of European Social Policy, IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, International Journal of Manpower, and previously Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research.

Martin Kahanec is a member of the economic expert panel at Denník N, and interviews with him have been published in Denník N, SME, Hospodárske noviny, and Trend. He frequently comments for international media, including BBC, de Volkskrant, and Bloomberg.

Research

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Martin Kahanec's main research areas include labour economics, migration and mobility within the EU, labour market policies and migration policy, ethnicity in the labor market, and labour market reforms in Europe.[7]

Selected Bibliography

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Books

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  • Kahanec, M. & Zimmermann, K. F. (Eds.). (2016). Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession
  • Kahanec, M., & Zimmermann, K. F. (Eds.). (2010). EU Labor Markets After Post-Enlargement Migration

Articles in Academic Journals

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  • Kahanec, M., Kováčová, L., Lukáčová, K., (2022), Industrial Relations and Unemployment Benefit Schemes in the Visegrad Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research. Vol. 28(2), 229–246.
  • Ulceluse, M., & Kahanec, M. (forthcoming 2022). Eastward Enlargements of the European Union, Transitional Arrangements and Self-employment. Journal of Population Economics
  • Guzi, M., Kahanec, M., & Mytna Kurekova, L. (2021). What explains immigrant-native gaps in European labor markets: The role of institutions. Migration Studies, Vol. 9(4), 1823–1856.
  • Kahanec, M., Lafférs, L., & Schmidpeter, B. (2021). The Impact of Repeated Mass Antigen Testing for COVID-19 on the Prevalence of the Disease. Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 34(4)
  • Fabo, B., & Kahanec, M. (2018). Can a voluntary web survey be useful beyond explorative research? International Journal of Social Research Methodology, Vol. 21(5), 591-601
  • Guzi, M., Kahanec, M., & Kureková, L. M. (2018). How immigration grease is affected by economic, institutional, and policy contexts: evidence from EU labor markets. Kyklos, Vol. 71(2), 213-243
  • Kahanec, M., & Pytliková, M. (2017). The economic impact of east–west migration on the European Union. Empirica, 44(3), 407-434
  • Kahanec, M., & Zimmermann, K. F. (2014). How skilled immigration may improve economic equality. IZA Journal of Migration, 3(1), 2
  • Giulietti, C., Guzi, M., Kahanec, M., & Zimmermann, K. F. (2013). Unemployment benefits and immigration: evidence from the EU. International Journal of Manpower, Vol.34(1/2), 24- 38.
  • Constant, A. F., Kahanec, M., & Zimmermann, K. F. (2012). The Russian-Ukrainian earnings divide. Economics of Transition, Vol. 20(1), 1-35

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Academy of Europe: Kahanec Martin". www.ae-info.org. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  2. ^ "Martin Kahanec". Celsi.sk. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  3. ^ "RePEc: Research Papers in Economics". repec.org. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  4. ^ a b "Martin Kahanec | CEU People". people.ceu.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  5. ^ "Governing Board of Comenius University". uniba.sk. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  6. ^ "Rada vlády pre vedu, techniku a inovácie má nové expertné zloženie. Bude dohliadať na stovky miliónov eur určených na výskum a inovácie | Úrad vlády SR". www.vlada.gov.sk. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
  7. ^ "Martin Kahanec | CEU People". people.ceu.edu.
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