Jaanika Meriküll Curriculum Vitae

Senior Economist
E-mail: [email protected]

Research interests:

Labour economics
Economic development and technological change
Micro-data analysis

Education:

2012 — post-doc, SSEES (School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies), University College London, the United Kingdom
2009 — Ph.D. Economics, University of Tartu, Estonia
2003 — MA Economcis, University of Tartu, Estonia
2000—2001 — visiting student, University of Kiel, Germany
2000 — BA Economics, University of Tartu, Estonia

Experience:

Eesti Pank, Economics and Research Department, Economist since 2010 

Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Visiting Researcher in 2015

University of Tartu, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Economics and Business Administration, Associate Professor/Senior Resercher since 2014 (work load 0.25)
University of Maastricht, the Netherlands, Visiting Researcher in 2006 
University of Tartu, Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Economics and Business Administration, Lecturer (econometrics, statistics, macroeconomics) in 1998—2009

Selected publications:

Articles in peer-reviewed academic journals

• The Gap that Survived the Transition: The Gender Wage Gap over Three Decades in Estonia, 2022, forthcoming, authors Jaanika Meriküll and Maryna Tverdostup. Economic Systems.
• The gender wealth gap in Europe: Application of machine learning to predict individual-level wealth, 2022, authors Merike Kukk, Jaanika Meriküll and Tairi Rõõm. The Review of Income and Wealth, https://doi.org/10.1111/roiw.12596.
• Are survey data underestimating the inequality of wealth?, 2022, authors Jaanika Meriküll and Tairi Rõõm. Empirical Economics, Vol 62, pp 339-374. 
• The role of firms in the gender wage gap, 2022, authors Jaan Masso, Jaanika Meriküll and Priit Vahter. Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol 50 (2), pp 454-473.
• What explains the gender gap in wealth? Evidence from administrative data, 2021, authors Jaanika Meriküll, Merike Kukk and Tairi Rõõm. Review of Economics of the Household, Vol 19, pp 501-547.  
• The Effect of the Single Currency on Exports: Comparative Firm-Level Evidence, 2021, authors Tibor Lalinsky and Jaanika Meriküll. International Journal of Central Banking, September issue, pp 203-239.  
• Stress tests of the household sector using microdata from survey and administrative sources, 2020, authors Jaanika Meriküll and Tairi Rõõm. International Journal of Central Banking, March 2020, pp 203-248.

Publication in books 

• Labor Market Transitions During the Great Recession in Estonia, 2016, author Jaanika Meriküll. In Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession (eds. Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann). Springer.
• Perceptions of unreported economic activities in Baltic firms. Individualistic and non-individualistic motives, 2013, authors Jaanika Meriküll, Tairi Rõõm and Karsten Staehr. In (Dis)honesty in Management: Manifestations and Consequences (eds. Maaja Vadi and Tiia Vissak). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Working papers

• Were jobs saved at the cost of productivity in the Covid-19 crisis? 2022, authors Jaanika Meriküll and Alari Paulus. Working Papers of Eesti Pank, No 5/2022.
• Estonian Household Finance and Consumption Survey: Results from the 2017 wave, 2019, authors Jaanika Meriküll and Tairi Rõõm. Occasional Papers of Eesti Pank, No 1/2019.
• The assets, liabilities and wealth of Estonian households: Results of the Household Finance and Consumption Survey, 2016, authors Jaanika Meriküll and  Tairi Rõõm. Occasional Papers of Eesti Pank, No 1/2016.
• Assessing European firms´ exports and productivity distribution: the CompNet trade module, 2015, authors Antoine Berthou, Emmanuel Dhyne, Matteo Bugamelli, Ana-Maria Cazacu, Calin-Vlad Demian, Peter Harasztosi, Tibor Lalinsky, Jaanika Meriküll, Filippo Oropallo and Ana Cristina Soares. ECB Working Paper, No. 1788.
• Are Foreign-Owned Firms Different? Comparison of Employment Volatility and Elasticity of Labour Demand, 2014, authors Jaanika Meriküll and Tairi Rõõm. ECB Working Paper, No 1704.
• Micro-based evidence of EU competitiveness: The CompNet database, 2014, authors Lopez-Garcia, P.; Di Mauro, F.; Benatti, N.; Angeloni, C.; Altomonte, C.; Bugamelli, M.; D'Aurizio, L.; Barba Navaretti, G.; Forlani, E.; Rossetti, S.; Zurlo, D.; Berthou, A.; Sandoz-Dit-Bragard, C.; Dhyne, E.; Amador, J.; Opromolla, L., D.; Soares, A., C.; Chiriacescu, B.; Cazacu, A.-M.; Lalinsky, T.; Biewen, E.; Blank, S.; Meinen, P.; Hagemejer, J.; Tello, P.; Rodríguez-Caloca, A.; Čede, U.; Galuscak, K.; Meriküll, J. and Harasztosi, P. ECB Working Paper, No 1634.

Referee:

Baltic Journal of Economics
Economic Modelling
Economic Systems
British Journal of Sociology
Emerging Markets Finance and Trade
Journal of Common Market Studies
Oxford Development Review