Pawel Bukowski

Pawel Bukowski is an Assistant Professor of Economics at University College London (School of Slavonic and East European Studies). He holds visiting and adjunct roles at the London School of Economics, International Inequalities Institute, and Polish Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on Labour Economics, Income Inequality, Spatial Economics, and Education Economics.

• Assistant Professor, UCL
• Visiting Fellow, CEP (LSE)
• Faculty Associate, LSE International Inequalities Institute

His research examines:

• Wage determination by firms and worker power dynamics
• Evolving national/sub-national inequalities in Central/Eastern Europe
• Spatial inequality and education returns across regions

Recent publications analyze rent-sharing decline, geographic wage disparities, and historical inequality patterns. He co-authored a book on Polish inequalities (2024) and Between Communism and Capitalism (2021), both winning major awards.

• 2025 Marcin Król Prize for social/political thought
• 2024 Scientific Economic Book of the Year