The Talking Economics: Emerging Scholars podcast series highlights the research and career journeys of CERGE-EI PhD in Economics candidates and recent graduates. In this episode, we speak with Sona Badalyan, one of our current job market candidates.

Sona is an applied microeconomist with interests in labor, public, and personnel economics. Her job market paper examines internal labor markets, exploring how firm organization, labor market institutions, and frictions shape outcomes for workers and firms in an aging economy.

00:00 Introduction

01:20 Path to a PhD decision

05:10 Challenges and mobility stays

08:06 Motivation for a dissertation topic

08:53 Intra-firm spillovers of raised retirement age

15:30 Old-age employment and organizational structures

17:50 Peer Effects in old-age employment

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