Effrosyni (Efi) Adamopoulou is Deputy Head of ZEW's (Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research) Inequality and Public Policy group. She is also affiliated with the University of Mannheim as a member of the Bonn-Mannheim Collaborative Research Center TR 224 funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Her research explores inequality through both micro and macroeconomic lenses, focusing on how labour market institutions, household dynamics, and social interactions shape economic disparities. She has conducted research on wage determination, household decision-making, consumption, and education using both survey and social security data. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University Carlos III of Madrid. Before joining ZEW, she was a (tenured) economist at the Bank of Italy. She was a member of the Greek National Minimum Wage Experts Committee from 2022 to 2025.
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