Work experience

  • Department of Public Economics, Masaryk University

  • Brno, Czechia

Assistant Professor

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Research interests: Labor economics

Teaching:

  1. 2022-now Academic writing (lectures and seminars, MSc + BSc program)
  2. 2020-now Labor market policy (lectures and seminars, MSc program)
  3. 2013-now Reforms in the Public Sector (lectures, BSc program)
  4. 2013-now Applied Research in Public Policy Making (lectures, MSc program)
  5. 2015-2020 Labor market and socioeconomic inequalities (lectures, MSc)

Major research grants:

  1. "Social impacts of the pandemic and the labour market", National Institute SYRI (2022-2025)
  2. “Empirical studies of labor market research”, Grant Agency of Masaryk University (2022)
  3. “Empirical studies of labor market research”, Grant Agency of Masaryk University (2021)
  4. “International migration: Drivers and Impacts”, Czech Science Foundation (2020-2023)
  5. “Europe's migration experience and its effects on economic inequality”, Grant Agency of Masaryk University (2019-2020)
  6. “Explaining the Support of New forms of Populism: the Czech Republic and Slovakia in a Comparative Perspective”, Czech Science Foundation (2019-2021)
  7. “Residential Mobility, Social Capital and Trust: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, Czech Science Foundation (2018-2020)
  8. “Barriers to workforce mobility in the EU”, Grant Agency of Masaryk University (2017)
  9. “ENCON - Enhancing CSOs Contribution to Evidence-Based Policy Making for Vulnerable Groups”, International Visegrad Fund (2017-2018)

Country expert for the European Commission (DG EMPL):

  1. 2022 “Skills shortages and structural changes in the labour market during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the context of the digital and green transition“
  2. 2021 “The digitalisation and automation of the Czech industry and their impact on the current and future labour market and education”
  3. 2019 “Skills imbalances in the Czech Republic”
  4. 2019 “Short-time work schemes in the Czech Republic”
  5. 2019 “Third-country nationals with different forms of contract in the Czech labour market”
  6. 2018 “Health and safety at work and labour inspectorate in Slovakia”

  • Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI), www.celsi.sk

  • Bratislava, Slovakia

Researcher

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  1. Labour market data analysis
  2. Maintenance of WageIndicator Living Wages database, the biggest data source for cost of living worldwide
  3. Responsibility for the calculation of Salary Checks in more than 70 countries
  4. Collaboration on BARWAGE – The importance of collective bargaining for wage setting in the European Union project

  • Department of Public Economics, Masaryk University

  • Brno, Czechia

Postdoctoral Researcher

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Teaching:

  1. 2015-2017 Labor Economics (lectures and seminars, BSc program), Masaryk University
  2. 2014, 2016 Microeconomics for Public Policy (lectures, MA program), Central European University
  3. 2014-2015 Public Finance (seminars, BSc program), Masaryk University

Major research grants:

  1. "After the curtain: empirical studies of migration in transition economies", Czech Science Foundation (2015-2017)
  2. “Welfare Attitudes in Post-Crisis Europe”, Czech Science Foundation (2015-2017)
  3. “People to jobs, or jobs to people?”, IZA-Randstad (2014-2016)

  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), www.iza.org

  • Bonn, Germany

Research Associate

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Collaboration on research projects:

  1. “Web-based data-collection-methodological challenges, solutions and implementations“, COST
  2. “Knowledge for Integration Governance”, European Commission FP7
  3. “The integration of migrants and its effects on the labor market”, European Parliament
  4. “Growing Inequalities’ Impacts”, European Commission FP7
  5. “Study on Active Inclusion of Migrants”, European Commission (VC/2009/0009)

  • Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, www.cerge-ei.cz

  • Prague, Czechia

Junior Researcher

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Research projects:

  1. “Labour market skill needs forecasting”, Czech Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  2. “The effects of universities on local labour market”, Charles University Grant Agency (2006)

  • European Central Bank

  • Frankfurt, Germany

Intern

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  • Life-satisfaction analysis based on Eurobarometer survey database of 1.5 million respondents
  • Developed advanced programming skills in Stata and with large database manipulation.


Education and training

Successfully accomplished MIT online course taken at edX.org

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  • The Challenges of Global Poverty (instructors: Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee and Esther Duflo)

CERGE- EI

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  • PhD in Economics

  • Prague, Czechia

CERGE-EI

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  • MA in Economics

  • Prague, Czechia

Comenius University

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  • MS in Mathematics

  • Bratislava, Slovakia

Social and political activities

Visiting positions

  1. One week as a visiting researcher at Cardiff Business School (Global Staff Mobility grant, 2024)
  2. Two weeks as a visiting researcher at University of Antwerp (InGRID2 project visiting grant, 2019)
  3. One week as a visiting researcher at University of Regensburg (2018)
  4. One week as a visiting researcher at University of Wrocław (2017)
  5. Two months as a visiting lecturer at Central European University in Budapest (2016)
  6. One week as a visiting researcher at Austrian Institute of Economic Research in Vienna (2015)

Networks and memberships

IZA (Institute of Labor Economics) research fellow

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GLO (Global Labor Organization) research fellow

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Slovak Economic Association (SEA) fellow

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National Institute SYRI senior researcher

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Publications

Peer-reviewed journal articles (most recent)

  1. Adamus, M., Mikušková, E. B., Kačmár, P., Guzi, M., Adamkovič, M., Chayinska, M., & Adam‐Troian, J. (2024). The mediating effect of institutional trust in the relationship between precarity and conspiracy beliefs: A conceptual replication of Adam‐Troian et al. (2023). British Journal of Social Psychology, 63(3), 1207–1225. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12725 
  2. Saxonberg, S., Sirovátka, T., & Guzi, M. (2024). Does Performance Matter? The Influence of Attitudes Towards Welfare State Performance on Voting for Rightwing and Leftwing Populist Parties. Social Policy and Society, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746424000010
  3. Guzi, M., Kahanec, M., and Mýtna Kureková, L. (2023), The impact of immigration and integration policies on immigrant-native labour market hierarchies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2207339
  4. Guzi, M., and Mikula, Š. (2022), Reforms That Keep You at Home: The Effects of Economic Transition on Migration, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, Vol. 30, Nr. 2, pp. 289-310, https://doi.org/10.1111/ecot.12287
  5. Guzi, M., Kahanec, M., and Mýtna Kureková, L. (2021), What Explains Immigrant-native Gaps in European Labor Markets: the Role of Institutions. Migration Studies, Vol. 9, Nr. 4, pp. 1823–1856, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnab044
  6. Guzi, M., and Mikula, Š. (2021), Careful what you say: The effect of manipulative information on the 2013 Czech presidential run-off election, Economics Letters, Vol. 190, pp. 1–6 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110152
  7. Guzi, M., Huber, P., and Mikula, Š. (2021), The long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland on residential migration, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 126, pp. 1–17 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jue.2021.103385
  8. de Pedraza García, P., Guzi, M. and Tijdens, K. (2021), Life satisfaction of employees, labour market tightness and matching efficiency, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 42 No. 3, pp. 341-355, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-07-2019-0323
  9. Sirovátka, T., Guzi, M., and Saxonberg, S. (2019), Satisfaction with Democracy and Perceived Performance of the Welfare State in Europe, Journal of European Social Policy, Vol. 29 No. 2, pp. 241–256, https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928718757685
  10. Sirovátka, T., Guzi, M., and Saxonberg S. (2019), Support for market economy principles in European post-communist countries during 1999-2008, Czech Sociological Review, Vol. 55 No. 3, pp. 319-345, http://dx.doi.org/10.13060/00380288.2019.55.3.469
  11. Guzi, M., Kahanec, M. and Kureková, L.M. (2018), How Immigration Grease Is Affected by Economic, Institutional, and Policy Contexts: Evidence from EU Labor Markets, Kyklos, Vol. 71 No. 2, pp. 213–243, https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12168
  12. Akay, A., Constant, A., Giulietti, C. and Guzi, M. (2017), Ethnic diversity and well-being, Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 30 No. 1, pp. 265–306, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-016-0618-8
  13. Kahanec, M. and Guzi, M. (2017), How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 38 No. 7, pp. 996–1015, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-08-2017-0205
  14. Guzi, M. and de Pedraza García, P. (2015), A web survey analysis of subjective well-being, International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 36 No. 1, pp. 48–67, https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-12-2014-0237
  15. Guzi, M. (2013), An Empirical Analysis of Welfare Dependence in the Czech Republic, Czech Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 74 No. 4, pp. 673–684.

Book chapters

  1. Guzi, M., Duszczyk, M., Huber, P., Huemer, U., Veselková, M. (2024). “Pathways to Inclusion: Labour Market Perspectives on Ukrainian Refugees”, In: Mátyás, L. (eds) Central and Eastern European Economies and the War in Ukraine. Contributions to Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61561-0_9
  2. Kirov, V., Kováčová, L., Guzi, M., Czarzasty, J., Adascalitei, D. and Kahanec, M. (2023), “Preserving Jobs in COVID-19 Times in CEE Countries: Social Partners’ Responses and Actions”, In Woźniak-Jechorek, B. (Ed.) Digital Labour Markets in Central and Eastern European Countries: COVID-19 and the Future of Work, Routledge, London, pp. 142-165. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003326779
  3. Guzi, M. and Landesmann, M. (2022), “Labour market developments before, during and after two crises”, in Mátyás, L. (Ed.) Emerging European Economies after the Pandemic, Springer, Cham, pp. 155–199. https://link.springer.com/book/9783030939625
  4. Kahanec, M. and Guzi, M. (2022), “Welfare and Migration”, in Zimmermann, K.F. (Ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, pp. 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_95-1
  5. Guzi, M., Kahanec, M., and Ulceluse, M. (2021), “Europe's migration experience and its effects on economic inequality”, in Fischer, G. and Strauss, R. (Ed.) Europe's Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 488–516. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197545706.003.0014
  6. Guzi, M., and Kahanec, M. (2015), “Socioeconomic Cleavages between Workers from New Member States and Host-country Labor Forces in the EU during the Great Recession”, in Bernaciak, M. (Ed.), Market Expansion and Social Dumping in Europe, pp. 97–122, Routledge, London. https://www.routledge.com/Market-Expansion-and-Social-Dumping-in-Europe/Bernaciak/p/book/9781138716674
  7. Kahanec, M., Guzi M., Martiskova, M. and Siebertova, Z. (2014). “Slovakia and the Czech Republic: Inequalities and Convergences after the Velvet Divorce”, in Nolan, B. et al. (Ed.), Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries Thirty Countries' Experiences, pp. 569–592, Oxford University Press, Oxford. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199687428.003.0024

Reports and policy documents

  1. Guzi, M. (2023) “Exploring Drivers and Policy Approaches of Student Migration in the EU”, European Commission https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/sources/policy/communities-and-networks/harnessing-talent-platform/htp-drivers-policy-approaches-student-migration-eu_112023_en.pdf
  2. Guzi, M., Holubová, B., Kahancová, M., Kahanec, M., Martišková, M., Radvanský, M., and Pavol Bors (2021), “Tackling undeclared work in the personal and household services sector”, Bratislava: European Labour Authority https://www.ela.europa.eu/sites/default/files/2022-03/Study-report-on-personal-and-household-sector.2021_EN.pdf
  3. Guzi, M. (2021) “Cost of Living, Living Wages, and Minimum Wages in EU-27 countries”, Bruxelles: The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL. https://left.eu/content/uploads/2021/07/Study-EN_020621.pdf
  4. Guzi, M., Macková, L., and Valentová, E.C. (2021), “Governance of Migrant Integration in the Czech Republic: Monitoring report on progress towards the 2030 Agenda in relation to migration”, Prague: Diaconia ECCB Center of Relief and Development https://gcap.global/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Diakonie_Monitoring-rep._FINAL_ENG.pdf
  5. Guzi, M. and Fabo, F. (2021), “Geography of new employment dynamics in Slovakia”, Luxembourg: ESPON https://www.espon.eu/sites/default/files/attachments/EMPLOY-Slovakia_0.pdf
  6. Guzi, M. and Fabo, F. (2019), “The cost of living in the EU: how much do you need?”, ETUI Policy Brief, Brussels: European Trade Union Institute. https://www.etui.org/publications/policy-briefs/european-economic-employment-and-social-policy/the-cost-of-living-in-the-eu-how-much-do-you-need
  7. Eichhorst, W., Colussi, T., Guzi, M., Kahanec, M., Lichter, A., Nikolova, M. and Sommer, E. (2017), “People to Jobs, Jobs to People: Global Mobility and Labor Migration”, IZA Report No. 74.

Language skills

Mother tongue(s)

Slovak

Other language(s)

Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production Writing

English

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Spanish

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German

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Czech

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Recommendations

Martin Kahanec

Central European University

Cooperation on research projects and co-authored publications.

Daniel Münich

CERGE-EI

PhD supervisor.

Tomáš Sirovátka

Masaryk University

Mentor, and co-author.

Peter Huber

Austrian Institute of Economic Research

Cooperation on research projects and co-authored publications.

Management and leadership skills

Consultancy, supervision and mentoring

  1. Leadership in research projects
  2. Supervised 18 master theses of which 14 received the highest grade and 4 were awarded dean’s prize for best thesis
  3. Mentoring of early career researchers (MSCA fellows)
  4. Member of evaluation panel in Economics for Czech Science Foundation (2017-2020);
  5. Member of judging committee: The Undergraduate Awards 2016, 2019, 2021, 2022; CERGE-EI New Economic Talent.
  6. Consultancy for Fairtrade International on setting adequate compensation income levels (2015-2017)
  7. Opponent in PhD defence: Matěj Bělín (CERGE-EI, 2023), Vahan Sargsyan (CERGE-EI, 2019)

Refereeing for scientific and scholarly journals:

  1. Journal of Population Economics; International Journal of Manpower; European Journal of Political Economy; IZA Journal of Labor Economics; Journal of Demographic Economics; JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies; Review of World Economics; Journal of Happiness Studies; International Review of Economics; PLOS One; SAGE Open; European Review; International Migration; Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies; Journal of Economic Integration; International Migration Review; Journal of European Social Policy; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology.
  2. Peer reviews are listed at https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/P-2662-2014

Organisational skills

Organization of conferences and seminars

  1. Organizer of Young Economists’ Meeting in Brno (YEM) (since 2015)
  2. Organizer of Masaryk University Economic Seminars series (MUES) (since 2014)