WIIW The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies - Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche

Marina Tverdostup is Economist at wiiw and a country expert for Estonia. Her research interests cover diverse labour-market issues, including gender inequalities, labour mobility, immigrants’ integration and skills disparities. Her research also focuses on experimental analysis and game-theoretic modelling of markets with asymmetric information, as well microsimulation analysis. In her research, she has worked with various empirical data, including Austrian, Finnish and Estonian register-based data, EU survey data, and primary experimental data. She has been involved as a researcher or a PI in the EU framework, EU Commission, Interreg Europe projects, as well as projects funded by the Austrian Research Foundation and the Austrian National Bank. She holds a Ph.D. in economics and M.Sc. in financial mathematics from the University of Tartu, Estonia. Previously she worked as a postdoc at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, a research fellow and lecturer at the University of Tartu, Estonia, and a visiting researcher at Aalto University, Finland.