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wiiw Seminar Series
'Integration in a wider Europe' |
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Orsolya
Lelkes, Research Fellow at the European Centre for Social
Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna
Poverty Across Europe
14 May 2007, 4 p.m. |
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Orsolya
Lelkes is Research Fellow at the European Centre for Social
Welfare Policy and Research in Vienna. She is also a research
affiliate at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE),
at the London School of Economics (LSE). Between 2002 and 2005
she was the head of the Economic Research Division in the Hungarian
Ministry of Finance. During this period she was actively involved
in structural reform issues during and after the accession of
Hungary to the European Union. Her research fields include poverty,
tax-benefit microsimulation, social exclusion, non-monetary
measures of well-being, and happiness economics.
Recent publications: 'Tasting freedom: Happiness, religion and
economic transition' (2006), Journal of Economic Behavior
and Organization; 'Knowing what is good for you. Empirical
analysis of personal preferences and the "objective good"'
(2006), Journal of Socio-Economics; 'Social Exclusion
in Central-Eastern Europe. Concept, Measurement and Policy Interventions'
(2006), European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research,
Vienna, and STEP Portugal, International Labour Office, Geneva;
'Why are the poor poor?' (2006), in: Draft Final Report of the
Network on Social Inclusion and Income Distribution, European
Observatory on the Social Situation. |
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