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Dr Ezgi Kaya is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. She is also a fellow at the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and a member of the ESRC Peer Review College. Between 2023 and 2025, she was a Research Fellow funded by ADR UK (Administrative Data Research UK), an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) investment.
Dr Kaya received her PhD in Economics from the IDEA Graduate Programme at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2014. Her research focuses on labour market inequalities, particularly in relation to gender and immigration. She explores the effectiveness of transparency legislation and family-friendly policies in shaping labour market outcomes, the relationship between labour market institutions and fertility, and the role of assortative mating and household interactions in shaping the labour supply behaviour of married women and men. Additionally, she has conducted significant research on peer effects in academic and economic performance, as well as the co-residence decisions of young adults with their parents.
Dr Kaya's recent publications reveal a strong focus on gender pay gap analysis across multiple contexts including medicine, the public sector, and different firm sizes. Her work increasingly utilizes linked administrative data to examine immigrant labor market outcomes and the impact of family policies like shared parental leave. A notable theme across her recent work is the examination of how policy interventions, particularly transparency legislation, affect labor market inequalities.
- Etta Chiuri Best Paper Prize (2014)
- Turkish Economic Association Postgraduate Research Award (2008)
Dr Kaya is actively involved in supervising PhD students, with current supervisees including Suzanna Nesom, Imran Khan, Julia Diniz, and Xinning Ma. She has previously supervised successful PhD candidates such as Aohan Gao, Jiarui Nan, John Poole, Widdi Mugijayani, and Jiayi Huang. She is also a co-investigator of the GW4 Maternity Leave Network, demonstrating her commitment to research on family-friendly policies and their labor market impacts.
As a member of the ESRC Peer Review College and a Research Fellow with ADR UK, Dr Kaya is deeply embedded in the UK research infrastructure, contributing to the advancement of social science research through data linkage and innovative methodologies.
