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I am a PhD candidate in Economics at CERGE-EI. In my dissertation, I explore the interaction of social safety net programs with labor markets using large-scale administrative social security data.  My research mainly concentrates on worker substitutability, spillover effects of retirement age increase within the workplace, intergenerational mobility, gender, and discrimination.

During my PhD years, I visited the University of Chicago (invited by D. Black), the Institute for Employment Research (M.Moritz), and the Dutch National Bank.


Research

"Firm Response to Raising Women's Retirement Age" [updated draft coming soon]

Awards: 1st prize at the Young Economists Seminar (Croatian National Bank)

Presented at: IAB DiskAB; EALE; IZA Summer School; ESPE; Dutch National Bank; Young Economists Seminar (Croatian National Bank);  SITES; AIEL; CERGE-EI Brown Bag Seminar; Student Workshop at Harris School of Public Policy at UChicago; BSE Summer School; Armenian Economic Association annual meeting

Co-workers' careers are interdependent. This study asks whether a reform raising women's retirement age affected the career opportunities of younger workers. Drawing on administrative data from Germany, I find that a reform-induced extension of the careers of older women affects younger co-workers' promotion and external hiring chances. These crowd-out effects are particularly pronounced among middle-aged female coworkers and external hires. The average effects hide substantial heterogeneity related to the availability of internal and external substitutes, highlighting the importance of labor market frictions.

ILT-internal labor market thickness (median split)
  • ILMT- internal labor market thickness (substitutability within firm)
  • ELMT- external labor market thickness (substitutability in the local labor market)

"Coordinated Retirement Decisions with Firms:  The Role of Worker Substitutability"  [draft available upon request]

Worker turnover can be costly for firms due to imperfect worker substitutability in the labor market. Therefore, it is important to understand how worker substitutability affects employment behavior at an older age. By combining the literature on worker substitutability with that on labor supply effects of retirement reform, I show that older workers with fewer potential substitutes in the internal labor market (by coworkers) or the external labor market (by new hires) are more likely to continue working when faced with higher retirement age. Based on a regression discontinuity design corresponding to a shift in the early retirement age, the findings suggest that workers internalize and mitigate some of their employer’s costs of finding suitable replacements.

"Disclosure Discrimination: An Experiment Focusing on Communication in the Hiring Process"  (with D.Korlyakova & R.Rehák) [SSNR linkAEA RCT Registry]

Presented at: pregame in the team of John List at UChicago

We focus on communication among hiring team members and document the existence of discrimination in the disclosure of information about candidates. In particular, we conduct an online experiment with a nationally representative sample of Czech individuals who act as human resource assistants and hiring managers in our online labor market. The main novel feature of our experiment is the monitoring of information flow between human resource assistants and hiring managers. We exogenously manipulate candidates' names to explore the causal effects of their gender and nationality on information that assistants select for managers. Our findings reveal that assistants disclose more information about family and less information about work for female candidates relative to male candidates. An in-depth analysis of the disclosed information suggests that gender stereotypes play an important role in this disclosure discrimination. Furthermore, assistants disclose less information about foreigners overall. This effect appears to be driven by the less attention assistants are willing to devote to the CVs of foreigners, measured by the extra effort to learn more about the candidates.