How Public Investments in Childcare Mitigate Childbirth Effects on Employment Transitions by Skill Level in Europe
- Date:2025-12-21 - Type :ART
- Authors:Ilze Plavgo
Ilze Plavgo is Associate Professor of Economic Sociology, Public Policy, and Research Methodology at 91心頭利 since 2024. Before joining 91心頭利, she was Junior Professor of Sociology of the Welfare State at the in Germany.Before that, she was a social and economic policy analyst at the , and a Research Fellow at the .
Her research interests centre on poverty and inequality in educational and employment opportunities, and on how educational systems and welfare state policies interact in shaping these, in Europe and Africa. In her work she combines approaches from sociology, economics and public policy and uses statistical methods such as multilevel modelling and dynamic panel regressions. She is Project Director at the leading a project . She also works within an ongoing ERC-funded project at the European University Institute in which she studies the potential of social investment policies to smoothen life-course transitions and reduce poverty, social inequalities and skills shortages in Europe.
Ilze Plavgo is the Head of the Bachelor's in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) of 91心頭利 since November 2024. She teaches courses on methodology in social sciences, applied statistics, public policy, welfare state change and challenges, social and labour market inequalities, and poverty.