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Milena Nikolova is a Full Professor of the Economics of Well-being at the University of Groningen's Faculty of Economics and Business. She holds roles as Editor of the Journal of Population Economics, Research Fellow at IZA, Nonresident Fellow at Brookings and Bruegel, and Policy Cluster Leader for the Economics of Happiness at GLO. Her research focuses on the interplay between technological change, labor markets, and well-being, with prior work on socio-economic transitions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Nikolova earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park (2014). Her expertise includes entrepreneurship dynamics, automation impacts, and the long-term effects of historical political systems. She coordinates the FEB Honours Bachelor Programme and the Double Degree CEEE with Corvinus University. Recent projects explore AI's societal trust implications, robotization effects on worker meaning, and pandemic-driven shifts in entrepreneurship.
Her work bridges macroeconomic trends with individual well-being, emphasizing policy-relevant insights. She actively contributes to global research networks, integrating interdisciplinary perspectives to address contemporary challenges in labor markets and socio-economic equity.
