Mariya Aleksynska is an economist at CEPII and a research affiliate at Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti (Milan). She holds a PhD in Economics from Bocconi University (Milan) and an MA in Economics from the Economics Education and Research Consortium (Kyiv).
Mariya is specialized in international migration, particularly in issues of immigrants' assimilation and transit migration management. During her PhD studies, she spent over a year in Morocco, studying its migration specifics. Mariya is also interested in labour market institutions, development, Eastern European economies and Russia.
Previously, Mariya worked as a researcher at Fondazione Rodolfo De Benedetti on an IMF-commissioned project about labour market reforms throughout the world. She was also a research assistant at Bocconi University and at the University of Cambridge on projects related to development.
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