Miroslav Štefánik

(professional profile)

Miroslav Štefánik currently serves as the director of the Institute of Economic Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. His educational background combines sociology and economics with quantitative methodology, underlined by solid data processing skills.

His research focuses on the labour market and educational policy-related topics, such as active labour market and training program evaluation, as well as analysing and predicting labour market skills needs. He enjoys looking for new ways of utilising big, online and administrative data to design indicators, extracting policy-relevant information and drawing practical recommendations. He has published in international research journals (e.g. Social Science Computer Review or Empirica) and authored an exhaustive list of applied research outputs.

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Institute of Economic Research/Centre of Social and Psychological Sciences

Slovak Academy of Sciences

Sancova 56

811 05 Bratislava, Slovakia


email: miroslav.stefanik[ at ] savba[ dot] sk 

phone: +421 2 5249 8307 / 141