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Associate on the TRADSTAR project participated in the conference in Mannheim
Valerija Botrić, PhD, collaborator on the TRADSTAR project, participated from March 6 to 7, 2025 at the ninth European User Conference for EU-Microdata, organized by GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. The topics of the conference were poverty and social exclusion, income inequality, low-wage earners, the gender pay gap, migration and labor mobility, the impact of COVID-19 on employment and unemployment, quality of work, business innovation, adult education, skills and qualifications, work-related health issues and social aspects of health. On the second day of the conference, our researcher presented the paper "Youth choices in pandemics: Return to education or disconnect?"
More about the conference on link.
EIZ Seminar held as part of TRADSTAR project
Another interesting EIZ Seminar event was held at The Institute of Economics, Zagreb on January 9, 2025. This presentation was made as part of the TRADSTAR project, funded within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026 - NextGenerationEU.
The presentation "What goes around, comes around: The impact of childhood relationship with parents on future caregiving decisions" was held by Tibor Kovač, associate on the TRADSTAR project.
His work addresses the topic of population aging and the resulting increased demand for informal caregivers. The paper analyzes the motives for providing informal long-term care, since most care is provided in this form. The results of the analysis indicate that poorer quality of child-parent relationships reduces the likelihood that children will provide assistance to their parents.
Valerija Botrić, PhD, TRADSTAR project associate, participated in the ICED conference
From December 2 to 3, 2024, Zagreb hosted the International Conference on the Economics of the Decoupling (ICED 2024) for the sixth year in a row, which brought together experts from the fields of economics, sustainable development, energy, and environmental protection. The conference was held at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Zagreb, both live and online, and provided an opportunity for international cooperation and knowledge exchange. During the two-day event, about 100 registered foreign and domestic participants had the opportunity to participate in 11 panels with many presentations and lectures. In total, almost 90 papers were submitted, of which 68 were selected for presentation, dealing with current topics in the context of separating economic growth from negative environmental impact. Discussions covered key challenges in the implementation of green policies, energy efficiency, sustainable tourism, green innovations, and the role of digitization and artificial intelligence in economy, as well as innovations in circular and digital economy.
Our researcher, Valerija Botrić, PhD, presented the paper "The flip side of the green transition: prevalence of dirty jobs in the Croatian economy", written in collaboration with her colleagues Ivica Rubil, PhD, and Marko Ledić, PhD, as part of the "Labour Markets and Well-being in the Context of an Ageing Population" (TRADSTAR) project funded within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026. - NextGenerationEU.
Read more about the conference here.
The participation of our researcher Valerija Botrić, PhD, at the conference "Migration and identity: culture, economy, state"
Valerija Botrić, PhD, team member of the project "Labour Markets and Well-being in the Context of an Aging Population" (TRADSTAR), financed with funds from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026. - NextGenerationEU, participated from November 11 to 12, 2024, in the conference "Migration and identity: culture, economy, state" in Zagreb. This international scientific and professional conference was organized by the Institute for Migration Research (IMIN), which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.
Our researcher gave a presentation "Does citizenship affects labor market outcomes of foreign-born youth in EU countries?", which deals with questions of how citizenship affects the employability of young people of foreign origin within the EU.
You can read more about the conference here.
TRADSTAR project reaches the public
TRADSTAR project manager, Danijel Nestić, PhD, continued with the project implementation and activities within the project (funded within the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026 - NextGenerationEU). At the 58th symposium of the Croatian Association of Accountants and Financial Workers, he presented some of his findings on the topic of the macroeconomic view of salaries in the public sector in Croatia to the professionals, scientific and general public. The overarching theme of the symposium, which was held from May 23 to 25, 2024 in Bol on the island of Brač, was "Salaries, sustainability reporting and adjustments in the management of public companies upon joining the OECD". The traditional symposium is a place for acquiring new knowledge, meeting and exchanging experiences of accountants, auditors, professionals and scientists/researchers with the aim of improving accounting and auditing practice.
First dissemination activity within TRADSTAR project
Our researcher, Valerija Botrić, PhD, member of the TRADSTAR project team, participated in the 47th EBES (Eurasia Business and Economics Society) Conference where she presented the paper "Bridging the Gap: Exploring Gender Dimension in European Labour Market Transitions" on April 20, 2024.
The conference was jointly organized with the GLO (Global Labor Organization) with the support of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and in collaboration with the FOM University of Applied Sciences in hybrid mode with both online and in-person presentation at the FOM University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany.
More information on the abovementioned conference is available here.
On January 1, 2024 The Institute of Economics, Zagreb started with the implementation of the four-year project „Labour Markets and Well-being in the Context of an Ageing Population (TRADSTAR)“, financed with funds from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan 2021-2026 - NextGenerationEU. The project is part of the four-year Program Agreement that the Institute of Economics, Zagreb signed with the Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia. The Program Agreement is a new instrument of public financing of scientific institutions that enables the institutions to independently manage scientific activity in accordance with national strategic goals and based on the results and quality of scientific work. The project lasts until December 31, 2027 and project activities, as well as events, will be published on the web pages of the Institute of Economics, Zagreb.
