Bio: Dagmara Nikulin

Dagmara Nikulin has been employed at the Faculty of Management and Economics as a research and teaching assistant professor since 2014. Initially, she worked at the Department of Economic Sciences, and now at the Department of Statistics and Econometrics.

She is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics at the Poznań University of Economics (2009) and the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (2010). In 2006-2007 she studied at the University of Hannover. In the years 2007-2010 she worked in the accounting department of the international concern MAN in Poznań. In the years 2010-2014 she was a doctoral student at the Faculty of Management and Economics, where on May 15, 2014 she defended her doctoral thesis entitled „Cause and effect analysis of the level and dynamics of wages in Poland and Germany: a comparative study” and obtained a PhD degree in economics in the discipline of economics. In 2015, she completed a scientific internship at the University of Glasgow as part of the Dekaban program. In 2022, she carried out a research grant at the University of Sheffield as part of the Bekker scholarship awarded by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange.

Specialist in the field of labor market economics. Her scientific interests focus on empirical analyzes of contemporary labor markets. Previous publications concerned mainly problems related to the identification of the size and causes of the shadow economy and unregistered work in Poland, as well as the impact of international processes of production fragmentation on wages and working conditions in European countries.

Involved in research projects on informal work (Informal work definition, measurement methods and solutions implemented as part of the Dekaban Liddle Fellowship Award at the University of Glasgow; False self-employment as a part of shadow economy in Poland. Identification of the size and causes: grant Miniatura National Science Center; Undeclared work in the European Union: reasons, scope and consequences: research grant conducted at the University of Sheffield as part of the Bekker scholarship of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange) and the impact of Global Value Chains on the labor market (National Science Center project: Effects of global production networks on employment, earnings and factor allocation in the presence of workers, firms and tasks heterogeneity). She was involved in the development of the Gender Equality Plan at the Gdańsk University of Technology.

Scientific interests:

• Shadow economy and informal work
• Self-employment
• Empirical analysis of wages and working conditions
• The impact of Global Value Chains on the labor market

Courses taught:

• Basics of statistics
• Econometrics
• Application of econometric methods in management and economy
• Contemporary labor markets
• Labor market analysis

Topics of diploma theses

• empirical analysis of the labor market (economic activity, situation of women, gender wage gap, unemployment, wages)
• modern labor markets (gig economy, precariat etc.)
• shadow economy (causes, sizes, effects) - theoretical and empirical approach
• undeclared work (size, methods of measurement, causes and effects)

Consultation hours

Tuesdays 8.15-9.00, room 312, or online. Prior e-mail contact to dnikulin@zie.pg.edu.pl is recommended