Researchers

Mariola Pytliková is a Researcher at CERGE-EI and an AIAS Fellow at Aarhus University. Before joining AIAS, Aarhus University, as an AIAS-PIREAU Fellow, she worked as an Assistant Professor at CERGE-EI (under U.S. permanent charter) and as an Associate Professor (Docent) at CERGE, Charles University in Prague. She was previously a Senior Researcher at the VSB Technical University Ostrava and at the Danish Institute of Governmental Research (KORA), and an Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher at Aarhus University. She received her PhD in Economics from ASB, Aarhus University, in 2006. In the past, she has held visiting positions at Princeton University, the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Her research interests are in labor economics, particularly in international migration, ethnic workforce diversity, the gender pay gap, and income inequality. More recently, her work has focused on migration determinants with a special emphasis on political and environmental factors, language, natives’ attitudes, and labor market laws. She has also investigated the impacts of immigrant diaspora networks and ethnic diversity on firm outcomes such as productivity, innovation, and foreign direct investment. Mariola’s work has been published in outlets such as The Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Population Economics, International Migration Review, and European Journal of Population, among others. She is a recipient of the Kateřina Šmídková Award for the best Czech female economist (2015) and the Young Economist Award from the Czech Economic Society (2005).

Research Orientation:

Labor economics (international migration, gender, wages and inequality), industrial relations