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Dr Anita Staneva

PhD (Swansea)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Member of the Charles Perkins Centre

H04 - Merewether Building
The University of Sydney

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Biographical details

Anita Staneva is Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. Her areas of research include applied microeconomics, empirical labour economics, and development and health economics. Current research is focused on human capital, cognitive skills and labour market outcomes. She has worked as an external consultant to the ILO project on structural transformation, employment and education in Mozambique and Tanzania and as Research Fellow at Auckland University of Technology on projects related to policy evaluation and social welfare programmes. She has served as a researcher at Swansea University on project related to public-private wage differential and as a statistician for the Ministry of Agriculture and the Bulgarian Academy of Science. She gained her PhD in Economics from Swansea University.

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Research interests

  • Applied Microeconomics
  • Empirical labour economics
  • Develpopment and Health Economics
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Selected publications

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Journals

  • Atalay, K., Barrett, G., Staneva, A. (2019). The Effect of Retirement on Elderly Cognitive Functioning. Journal of Health Economics, 66, 37-53. [More Information]
  • Atalay, K., Barrett, G., Staneva, A. (2019). The effect of retirement on home production: evidence from Australia. Review of Economics of the Household. [More Information]
  • Blackaby, D., Murphy, P., O'Leary, N., Staneva, A. (2019). Understanding what has been happening to the public sector pay premium in Great Britain: A distributional approach based on the Labour Force Survey. British Journal of Industrial Relations, Forthcoming. [More Information]
  • Blackaby, D., Murphy, P., O'Leary, N., Staneva, A. (2018). Regional pay? The public/private sector pay differential. Regional Studies, 52(4), 477-489. [More Information]
  • Cobb-Clark, D., Harmon, C., Staneva, A. (2018). The Bilingual Gap in Children's Language and Emotional Development. IZA Discussion paper, DP No. 11800.
  • Blackaby, D., Drinkwater, S., Murphy, P., O'Leary, N., Staneva, A. (2018). The Welsh economy and the labour market. Welsh Economic Review, 26, 1-12. [More Information]
  • Staneva, A., Abdel-Latif, H. (2016). From Soviet to Europe: Returns to Education Puzzle in Bulgaria. Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 30(3), 347-367. [More Information]
  • Staneva, A., Arabsheibani, R. (2014). Is there an informal employment wage premium? Evidence from Tajikistan. IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 3(1), 1-24. [More Information]
  • Jones, M., Latreille, P., Sloane, P., Staneva, A. (2013). Work-related health risks in Europe: Are older workers more vulnerable? Social Science & Medicine, 88, 18-29. [More Information]
  • Staneva, A. (2008). Analysis of the Labour Market in Bulgaria through Error Correction Model. Economic Thought, 2008 (3), 90-106.
  • Staneva, A. (2007). Econometric analysis of Labour Market in Bulgaria - 1991-2006. Economic Studies Journal, 2007 (3), 144-172.

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  • Sparreboom, T., Staneva, A. (2014). Is education solution to decent work for youth in developing economies? Identifying qualifications mismatch from 28 school-to-work transition surveys.

2019

  • Atalay, K., Barrett, G., Staneva, A. (2019). The Effect of Retirement on Elderly Cognitive Functioning. Journal of Health Economics, 66, 37-53. [More Information]
  • Atalay, K., Barrett, G., Staneva, A. (2019). The effect of retirement on home production: evidence from Australia. Review of Economics of the Household. [More Information]
  • Blackaby, D., Murphy, P., O'Leary, N., Staneva, A. (2019). Understanding what has been happening to the public sector pay premium in Great Britain: A distributional approach based on the Labour Force Survey. British Journal of Industrial Relations, Forthcoming. [More Information]

2018

  • Blackaby, D., Murphy, P., O'Leary, N., Staneva, A. (2018). Regional pay? The public/private sector pay differential. Regional Studies, 52(4), 477-489. [More Information]
  • Cobb-Clark, D., Harmon, C., Staneva, A. (2018). The Bilingual Gap in Children's Language and Emotional Development. IZA Discussion paper, DP No. 11800.
  • Blackaby, D., Drinkwater, S., Murphy, P., O'Leary, N., Staneva, A. (2018). The Welsh economy and the labour market. Welsh Economic Review, 26, 1-12. [More Information]

2016

  • Staneva, A., Abdel-Latif, H. (2016). From Soviet to Europe: Returns to Education Puzzle in Bulgaria. Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 30(3), 347-367. [More Information]

2014

  • Sparreboom, T., Staneva, A. (2014). Is education solution to decent work for youth in developing economies? Identifying qualifications mismatch from 28 school-to-work transition surveys.
  • Staneva, A., Arabsheibani, R. (2014). Is there an informal employment wage premium? Evidence from Tajikistan. IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 3(1), 1-24. [More Information]

2013

  • Jones, M., Latreille, P., Sloane, P., Staneva, A. (2013). Work-related health risks in Europe: Are older workers more vulnerable? Social Science & Medicine, 88, 18-29. [More Information]

2008

  • Staneva, A. (2008). Analysis of the Labour Market in Bulgaria through Error Correction Model. Economic Thought, 2008 (3), 90-106.

2007

  • Staneva, A. (2007). Econometric analysis of Labour Market in Bulgaria - 1991-2006. Economic Studies Journal, 2007 (3), 144-172.
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