Mihails Hazans

Research Associate

Dr. Mihails Hazans is a professor of econometrics at the University of Latvia and a research associate at BICEPS. Mihails has published on a broad range of labour market issues in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Albania. He has served as an expert or consultant for OECD, World Bank, USAID, European Commission, ILO, and European Agency for Reconstruction. His research has been supported by numerous grants from Bank of Latvia, European Commission, and Global Development Network.

Expertise

Labour Economics

Education

Dr. Math. University of Latvia, 1992

Candidate of sciences (Physics & Mathematics) Voronezh University (Russia), 1975

Higher Education (Mathematics) University of Latvia, 1972

Major Publications

Hazans, Mihails and Kaia Philips (2009), “The Post-Enlargement Migration Experience in the Baltic Labor Markets”, in Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds), EU Labor Markets After Post-Enlargement Migration, Berlin - Heidelberg: Springer, 255-304.

Hazans, Mihails (2009), “Labour market integration of ethnic minorities in Latvia”, in Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds), Ethnic minorities in European labour markets: Challenges and solutions, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, US: Edward Elgar (forthcoming)

Hazans, Mihails, Ija Trapeznikova, and Olga Rastrigina (2008). “Ethnic and parental effects on schooling outcomes before and during the transition: evidence from the Baltic countries.” J. of Population Economics, 21(3): 719-749. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=699443  

van Ommeren, Jos, and Mihails Hazans (2008). “Workers' Valuation of the Remaining Employment Contract Duration.” Economica 75 (297): 116-139. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=752846 

Hazans, Mihails  (2007). “Looking for the Workforce: The Elderly, Discouraged Workers, Minorities and Students in the Baltic Labour Markets.” Empirica, 34(4): 319-349. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=682862  

Dmitrijeva, Jekaterina and Hazans, Mihails (2007). “A Stock-Flow Matching Approach to Evaluation of Public Training Program in a High Unemployment Environment.”  LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations,21(3):503-540. SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=893066 

Hazans, Mihails (2005). „Unemployment and the Earnings Structure in Latvia”, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3504, 90 pp. World Bank: Washington DC. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=659103

Hazans, Mihails (2005). "Latvia: Working Too Hard?", in: Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead (ed.). "Working and Employment Conditions in New EU member States - Convergence or Diversity?", ILO-EC, Geneva: ILO, 2005, pp. 161-212. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=742124

Hazans, Mihails (2004). “Does Commuting Reduce Wage Disparities?” Growth and Change, 35(3): 360-390, http://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/growch/v35y2004i3p360-390.html. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=739809  

Major projects

Latvian labour market and household vulnerability analysis during the economic crisis - for the World Bank (2009)

Labour Force Survey expert in the European Agency for Reconstruction project E0761C „Labour market reform and workforce development - Republic of Montenegro” (2007-2008)

Country expert in the EC project „Study on the social and labour market integration of ethnic minorities” (2007), as well as in the ILO-EC project "Working and employment conditions in new member states: Interaction and socioeconomic impact" (2005).

Supervisor of the State Employment Agency project „Regional studies on socio-psychological portrait of unemployed in Latvia” (2006).

Consultant responsible for labour market analysis for the World Bank Country Economic Memorandums "Latvia - The Quest for Jobs and Growth" (2003) and „Albania - Sustaining Growth Beyond the Transition” (2004), as well as for the World Bank Living Standards Assessment „Latvia – Sharing the High Growth Dividend” (2006).

Co-author (with John Earle and Raul Eamets) of the background study for OECD (2003) publication “Labour Market and Social Policies in the Baltic Countries";  

Researcher in EC 5th Framework project “Regional Labour Market Adjustment in the Accession Candidate Countries” (2003 - 2004).

Principal researcher in projects funded via Regional Research Competition by Global Development Network (2003, 2004, 2005).

Other info

E-mail: mihazan@lanet.lv

Phone: (+371) 67 333 551