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Maryna Tverdostup is a Lecturer in Economic Modelling at the University of Tartu's School of Economics and Business Administration (0.25 FTE from May 2025). She concurrently serves as a Research Fellow at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) since 2021. Previously, she held roles including Research Fellow and Junior Research Fellow at the University of Tartu and a postdoc at the University of Innsbruck (2019–2020). Her academic career spans over a decade with extensive contributions to labor economics, human capital analysis, and gender disparities. She earned a PhD in Economics from the University of Tartu (2018), Master's in Financial Mathematics (2014), and has been affiliated with the Faculty of Social Sciences throughout her career.
Her research focuses on labor market outcomes, human capital dynamics, and gender wage gaps, with a regional emphasis on Europe and Estonia. Notable projects include the EU-funded STYLE initiative (2014–2017) and the LIFT project (2021–2023) analyzing Baltic economic integration. She has been awarded the Schumpeter Young Economist Award (2022) and top honors for her doctoral thesis (2019).
Her publications explore topics such as cross-border cooperation in the blue economy, the impact of cognitive skills on immigrant-native wage gaps, and gender disparities in wage returns. She has contributed to policy-oriented studies on Estonia's persistent gender wage gap and household income dynamics. Her work combines econometric rigor with applied economic analysis, addressing both theoretical and policy-relevant questions in labor and development economics.
Key collaborations include projects funded by the European Commission, the Estonian Research Council, and the Austrian National Bank. She has advised on policy measures related to labor market inequality, economic modeling, and sustainable development. Her research labs and teams focus on empirical methods, international comparative analysis, and policy impact evaluations.
