Worked on labour supply patterns in Central and Eastern European countries with the Centre Marc Bloch/Humboldt University, Berlin, (1997-1998).

Economist with the International Labour Office from 1999, first working on labour demand in transition countries, then on minimum wages in developing countries. She joined the wage unit of the Conditions of Work and Employment Programme and works on wage policy, both as a researcher and as an adviser to ILO constituents.

She has published articles in international reviews, as well as book chapters in the fields of transition labour markets, female labour supply, wage discrimination, minimum wages, employment policies and youth labour markets, in industrialized, developing and transition countries.

Publications include:

• "Labour market institutions and income inequality: What are the new insights after the Washington Consensus" (2004) with Rolph van der Hoeven, in Andrea Cornia (eds): Inequality, growth and poverty in an era of liberalization and globalization, (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
• "Poverty reduction and employment in developing countries: Do minimum wages help?" in International Labour Review, Vol. 140, No. 3, 2001, pp. 237-269.
• "Can the level of employment be explained by GDP growth in transition countries? Theory versus the quality of data", Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations 2000, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 623-643.