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Karina Doorley

Young Academy Ireland Member

Labour Economist ESRI

Karina Doorley is a labour economist at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Labor Studies (IZA) in Germany. Her PhD (from University College Dublin) investigated the impact of tax and welfare policy on redistribution and labour supply. Prior to this, she studied economics at Cambridge University. Karina spent the early part of her career at IZA in Germany and at the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), investigating how policy, institutions and demographic change influence labour supply and income distribution. In 2017, she moved to the ESRI and currently heads up the ESRI’s Tax, Welfare and Pensions team.  

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