Milena Nikolova

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University of Groningen

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Milena Nikolova is currently working as an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) and Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the University of Groningen.

RePEc ranks Nikolova in the top 5% female economists and top 7% among all male and female economists (based on publications in the last 10 years).

Between 2014 and 2017, Dr. Nikolova was a Research Associate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) in Bonn, Germany, where she is now a Research Fellow. She is also a Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Bruegel, and a Fellow at GLO.

Dr. Nikolova's work has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals such as World Development, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Business Venturing, and the Journal of Population Economics.

Dr. Nikolova serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Happiness Studies, and the International Review of Economics.

Milena holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Maryland, College Park (2014).

Milena Nikolova became an IZA Fellow in January 2018.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13187
The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment
Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev, Olga Popova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13112
What Makes Work Meaningful and Why Economists Should Care about It
Milena Nikolova, Femke Cnossen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12761
Former Communist Party Membership and Present-Day Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe
Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova
forthcoming in: Small Business Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12326
Stalin and the Origins of Mistrust
Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova, Vladimir Otrachshenko
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11437
Emigration, Remittances and the Subjective Well-Being of Those Staying Behind
Artjoms Ivlevs, Milena Nikolova, Carol Lee Graham
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2019, 32 (1), 113-151.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10774
Sometimes Your Best Just Ain't Good Enough: The Worldwide Evidence on Well-Being Efficiency
Milena Nikolova, Olga Popova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10411
Your Spouse Is Fired! How Much Do You Care?
Milena Nikolova, Sinem H. Ayhan
revised version is published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2018. [Journal link]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10226
Suffrage, Labour Markets and Coalitions in Colonial Virginia
Elena Nikolova, Milena Nikolova
published in: European Journal of Political Economy [Link] [Online Appendix]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10088
Happiness and Development
Milena Nikolova
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9636
Does Joining the EU Make You Happy? Evidence from Bulgaria and Romania
Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev
published in: Journal of Happiness Studies [Online]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9540
Left Behind but Doing Good? Civic Engagement in Two Post-Socialist Countries
Milena Nikolova, Monica Roman, Klaus F. Zimmermann
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017, 45 (3), 658 - 684 [Online]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9484
Minding the Happiness Gap: Political Institutions and Perceived Quality of Life in Transition
Milena Nikolova
published in: European Journal of Political Economy [Online]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8722
Bentham or Aristotle in the Development Process? An Empirical Investigation of Capabilities and Subjective Well-being
Carol Lee Graham, Milena Nikolova
published in: World Development [Online]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8520
In Transit: The Well-Being of Migrants from Transition and Post-Transition Countries
Milena Nikolova, Carol Lee Graham
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 112, 164-186 [Online]
IZA World of Labor Article
Migrant well-being after leaving transition economies
Milena Nikolova
IZA Research Report No. 74
People to Jobs, Jobs to People: Global Mobility and Labor Migration
Werner Eichhorst, Tommaso Colussi, Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec, Andreas Lichter, Milena Nikolova, Eric Sommer
Report commissioned by Randstad, Bonn 2017 (100 pages)
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