Public engagement

I frequently interact with the media as part of my mission to bridge the divide between academia, policymakers and society.

Columns

Policy

VoxEU. The recession in Russia deepens: Evidence from an alternative tracker of domestic economic activity (Feb 2023)

Forbes.  IT skills, STEM degree and fluency in English. How has the COVID-crisis reshaped the Ukrainian labour market? (Sep 2021) 🇺🇦 

English version is available on my Medium 

The material was also featured on Jooble.Blog 🇺🇦

Ukrainska pravda. From an accountant to a data analyst: Reskill options for women after the COVID-crisis (Oct 2021) 🇺🇦

Ekonomichna pravda. How to simplify the Ukrainian labour market for foreigners? 5 steps for the government (Sep 2021) 🇺🇦

Liga.Life. State exams in schools are over. Where to enrol this year: tips for parents (Jul 2021) 🇺🇦

VoxUkraine. Flexible working contracts: More rights for service employees (Jul 2021) 

(material also featured on Kyiv Post 🇬🇧 and NV.Business 🇺🇦)

Ekonomichna pravda. Why the Ukrainian IT sector will not double in size without changes in educational policy? (Jul 2021) 🇺🇦

NV.Business. Ten plots. Real-time tracking of economic changes in Ukraine during the COVID-19 pandemic (Jun 2021) 🇺🇦

Liga.Finance. UAH 8,000 to survive the lockdown. The Cabinet of Ministers decided to again support individual entrepreneurs. Yet there is a better solution (Apr 2021) 🇺🇦

Liga.Business. Working from home is convenient. But is it legal? What employees need to know (Feb 2021) 🇺🇦
CES Blog series. Consumer inflation reached 5% y-o-y: Express review (Jan 2021) 🇺🇦

Career & studies 

Inomics.  Why are top management consulting firms increasingly hiring Economics PhDs? (Jun 2023) 

Inomics.  5 key differences between American and European-style PhD programs (Sep 2022) 

Inomics.  Policy or academic economist: Which should I become? (Mar 2022) 

Inomics.  5 industry skills I never thought I would use in my PhD (Feb 2022) 

Media about my research

Public events & presentations (selected)

Policy & social

Election outcomes in the Netherlands: Public discussion for the Ukrainian community in the Netherlands (online, 2024), multiple public events & presentations by CES Ukraine and the partners (2020-2021, Kyiv, Ukraine), PACT Ukraine Workshop on Women in Economy (2020, Kyiv, Ukraine), Warwick Women in Economics Workshop (2020, Coventry, UK). 

Academic

Upcoming: KVS New Paper Sessions (June 17, Leiden University Den Haag, Netherlands), KOF ETH 6th International Conference on European Economics and Politics (June 20-21, Zurich, Switzerland), European Sociological Association Annual Conference (August 27-30, Porto, Portugal).

2024: FEBRI RUG PhD Conference (Groningen, Netherlands), ULMS PhD Workshop (Liverpool, UK),  ESPAnet NL-VL Early Career Researchers Day (Rotterdam, Netherlands).

2023: Europe Matters Seminar Series @ European Central Bank (Frankfurt, Germany), 4th European Conference of Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis (Milan, Italy), Sapienza PhD Conference in Economics and Social Sciences (Rome, Italy), FEBRI RUG PhD Conference (Groningen, Netherlands).

2022 and earlier: Toulouse School of Economics Workshop in Political Economy (2022, Toulouse, France), Scottish Economics Conference (2019, Glasgow, UK), International Conference on Energy, Finance, and the  Macroeconomy (2017, Montpellier, France), Geneva Economic Forum (2017, Geneva, Switzerland). 

Podcasts

K/sentimentalno. War and schools: Perspectives and obstacles. Ukraine (Aug 2022) 🇺🇦

K/sentimentalno. Time to return to work? The state of the Ukrainian economy after Russia's full-scale invasion (May 2022) 🇺🇦

What about the economy? How will the labour market look like after COVID? (Sep 2021) 🇺🇦

What about the economy? IT education in Ukraine: role of business (Sep 2021) 🇺🇦

What about the economy? Why gender balance is important in IT? (Jun 2021) 🇺🇦

What about the economy? Evolution of hybrid work in Ukraine (Jun 2021) 🇺🇦

What about the economy? Labour market in 2021: is it going to be different? (Jan 2021) 🇺🇦

Radio shows & YouTube

Macro & Money with Joeri Schasfoort (YouTube). Tracking Russia's economy  with alternative data (June 2023)

Hromadske Radio. What is really happening to the Russian economy under sanctions? (Apr 2023) 🇺🇦

Hromadske Radio. Jobs for Ukraine's recovery (Feb 2023) 🇺🇦

Hromadske Radio. Ukraine's wartime labour market: Who is hiring and who is looking for a job? Evidence from big data (Aug 2022) 🇺🇦

Hromadske Radio. How has the Ukrainian labour market changed since Russia's full-scale invasion? (Jun 2022) 🇺🇦

Hromadske Radio. Kyiv rental market during Russia's full-scale invasion: A two-fold price drop (Apr 2022) 🇺🇦

Hromadske Radio. Up or down in 2022? Property market trends in Kyiv (Jan 2022) 🇺🇦

Hromadske Radio. What do economists think of a common budget? Tips for couples (Dec 2021) 🇺🇦

Hromadske Radio. Where to search for a job if you have been laid off or replaced by a robot? (Sep 2021) 🇺🇦

Hromadske Radio. Rental prices in Kyiv increased by a third. Here is what has happened (Aug  2021) 🇺🇦

Hromadske Radio. IT skills will soon be required in all jobs (Jul 2021) 🇺🇦

Hromadske Radio. COVID-crisis will deepen gender pay gap (Jan 2021) 🇺🇦

TV comments

COVID & labour market: Channel 24, Suspilne Zaporizhzhia

Labour market policies: UA:First, Channel 24

Skills mismatch & education: Channel 5

Migration: UA: First, Channel 24

Pensions & savings: Channel 24

Other

I contributed to the online course Men and women: Gender for all on Prometheus, a Ukrainian online learning platform.