Dr Sarah Voitchovsky
SNSF Research Fellow
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
Location:
Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social ResearchLevel 5, Faculty of Business and Economics Building,
111 Barry Street,
The University of Melbourne
Biography
Sarah Voitchovsky is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute. She is also affiliated with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva on a Research Fellowship funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). She has previously worked as a researcher at the UCD Geary Institute in Dublin, having received a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford. She has also studied at the London School of Economics and the University of Lausanne.
Research Interests
Her main research interests are the inter-relationships between inequality, poverty and the macro-economy, and the way in which inequality may affect people’s behaviour, their opportunities and the environment in which they interact. Recent work also focusses on the role of education and skills in the labour market and the characteristics of people at the top of the income and earnings distributions.
Selected publications
Journal publications
Nolan, B. and S. Voitchovsky. (2016). “Job loss by wage level: lessons from the Great Recession in Ireland”, IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 5 (1), 1.
van de Ven, J. and S. Voitchovsky. (2015). “Skilled migrants and labour market integration: how important is the selection process?”, IZA Journal of Migration, 4 (1), 1.
Voitchovsky, S. (2014). “Occupational downgrading and wages of New Member State Immigrants to Ireland”, International Migration Review, 48(2), 500–537, Summer.
Voitchovsky, S., B. Nolan and B. Maître. (2012). “Wage Inequality in Ireland’s Celtic Tiger Boom”, Economic and Social Review, 43 (1), 99-133, 2012.
Atkinson A. B. and S. Voitchovsky. (2011).“The Distribution of Top Earnings in the UK since the Second World War”, Economica, 78 (311), 440-459, 2011.
Voitchovsky, S. (2005). “Does the Profile of Income Inequality Matter for Economic Growth?: Distinguishing between the effects of inequality in different parts of the income distribution”, Journal of Economic Growth, 10, 273-296
Book Chapters
Voitchovsky, S. (2009). “Inequality and Economic Growth”, in Wiemer Salverda, Brian Nolan, and Tim Smeeding (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality. Oxford, OUP.
Conference papers and proceedings
van de Ven, J. and S. Voitchovsky. (2015). “Drivers of employment outcomes amongst skilled migrants to Australia”, 2015 Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand Conference Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 16; available at http://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/LEW/article/view/2212