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Main activities and responsibilities: administrative and research work . The work within the projects "Open Government Partnership" and "Measuring the Budget Openness" for issues of budget transparency and public participation in public finances (data collection, compilation and report writing, meetings with policy-makers). Work on the project "The Budget Guides for Citizens of Zagreb" (data collection, report writing, editing, translation). Work on the project "Economic Populism" in the "Think Tank Young Professional Development" program. Analysis of local and city budgets in Croatia. Other: writing and editing of reports and scientific texts, translations from Croatian to English and from English to Croatian and participation in the Excessive Deficit Procedure for Croatia during the visit of the representatives of the European Union to the Institute for Public Finance.

Main activities and responsibilities: collecting and working with statistics and other data in economics, particularly labour market topics. Database creation for “Wages in Context” project – the first systematic living wage comparison (data entry, processing and analysis). Assistance in data management and processing questionnaires in the “WICAREE” project (Wage Indicator and Pay and Working Conditions in Social Care). Labor market analysis, research on working conditions and wage comparisons in over 80 countries in the World. Research and work on the various CELSI press releases and for internet-newsletters on policy and labour market topics.

List of principal subjects covered or skills acquired: Comparative Politics, (International) Political Economy, International Relations and Politics, Management and Governance, Public Finance and Public Policy, Political System of the EU, Philosophy, Statistics and Research Methods

List of principal subjects covered or skills acquired: Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Public Finance, Public Management and Administration, Policy Process and Policy Analysis, Comparative Institutions, Globalization and Global Governance, Statistics, Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods, Lobbying