Melisa SAYLI

Hi!

I am Melisa, and I am an Applied (Micro)Economist working at the intersection of labour and health economics.

Currently, I am a Research Fellow in the School of Economics at the University of Surrey. I work on The Health Foundation-funded project investigating the retention of clinical staff within the English National Health Service (NHS).

I have a diverse array of interests ranging from assessing the impact of managerial and institutional practices on workers' performance and behavior to exploring how various factors, such as mental and physical health, job engagement, and economic incentives, affect workers' decisions to enter, remain in, or exit the labor force. I am also committed to investigating inequalities faced by minority groups (e.g. LGBT+ or ethnic minority groups), particularly in the health sector.

You can find my CV here and contact me at m.sayli@surrey.ac.uk.

Mini bio

I received my PhD in Economics from the University of Manchester in 2018. My doctoral research has focused on the empirical modelling of couples' labour market outcomes in the UK by examining the effect of a woman's partner's different labour market outcomes on her labour force participation.

Previously, I was working as a Research Associate in the ESRC-funded interdisciplinary project on LGBT+ Networks in the NHS at the University of York, where, apart from econometric analyses, I gained experience in survey design, and led the quantitative data collection process. You can access the technical data addendum here, and the project report from here.

I was affiliated with the ESRC Research Centre for Population Change (CPC), where I previously worked with Dr Agnese Vitali on the "Female-Breadwinner Families in Europe" project.