Kazuhiro Kumo Editor & Author

Karabchuk Tatiana, Ph.D., is Associate Professor at the Department of Government and Society, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain. Her research interests include labour market studies, demography, happiness and cross-country comparative studies in education and employment. Her articles on youth employment and fertility, informal employment, family values, job stability and subjective well-being are published in such journals as The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Journal of Happiness Studies, Service Industries Journal, andAsia-Pacific Population Journal among others. 

Kazuhiro Kumo, Ph.D., is a Full Professor at the Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. He is the author of Migration and Regional Development in the Soviet Union and Russia (Beck Publisher Russia, 2003) and Demography of Russia (with T. Karabchuk and E. Selezneva, Palgrave Macmilan, 2017), along with articles published in Europe-Asia Studies, Post-Communist Economies, Comparative Economic Studies and Polar Science, among others. His research focuses on demography, migration, and economic geography of the former Soviet Union and Russia. 

Kseniia Gatskova, Ph.D., is a Researcher, quantitative sociologist working at the Economics Department of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. Her research interests encompass post-Soviet transformation, social inequality, migration, and gender studies as well as methods of empirical social research. Her recent publications appeared, among others, in the Journal of Comparative Economics, International Migration, Feminist Economics, and Social Indicators Research. 

Ekaterina Skoglund, Ph.D., is a Management Research and Dissertation Coordinator at the EU Business School in Munich and the Associated Researcher at the Leibiniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS Regensburg). Ekaterina published successfully in such journals as The Journal of Economic Inequality, Economics of Transition, IZA World of Labour, and Economic Systems. Her scientific and professional interests include applied research related to labor market and gender economics topics, specifically focused on the usage of subjective measures.