Dr Olena Nizalova

Senior Research Fellow

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Research Interests

About

Dr Olena Nizalova is a Senior Lecturer at the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) within the School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research (SSPSSR), Division of Law, Society and Social Justice. She joined the University of Kent in 2013, having completed a tenure as an Associate Professor at the Kyiv School of Economics in Ukraine, where she worked from 2005. She has an MSc in Business Management from the Ukrainian State Maritime Technical University, MA in Economic Theory from the EERC MA Program in Economics at the National University 'Kyiv Mohyla Academy' Ukraine, and a PhD in Economics from Michigan State University (USA). Her dissertation title was 'Three Essays in Labour Economics and Economics of Aging'. Olena is a member of the School of Economics' Microeconomics Research Group, the Development Economics Research Centre at Kent (DeReCK), and SSPSSR’s Welfare State Research Cluster.

Research interests

Olena uses econometric methods and a utility maximisation framework to study how people make choices regarding their health, work and families in ageing societies and post-Soviet countries to contribute to the development of sustainable ways of our comfortable life on earth. Her current research projects include:

Study of the risk factors which contribute to increased use of social care in the future (Adult Social Care Policy Research Unit, funded by the NIHR).
Interdependency between formal and informal elderly care (Adult Social Care Policy Research Unit, funded by the NIHR).
Effects of the TB epidemic in Ukraine on the productivity of individuals and firms.
Developing a transdisciplinary framework to enable and promote holistic approaches toward the sustainability of the old-age support systems (Pension, Health Care, and Long-term Care Project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation).

Olena Nizalova's Publications

Journal Articles

Journal Article

Unemployment and well-being of Europeans across the life cycle: The role of countries’ macroeconomic situation (2022)

Gintare Malisauskaite, Olena Nizalova, Despoina Xanthopoulou

Journal Article

Long-term effects of job loss on male health: BMI and health behaviors (2021)

Olena Nizalova, Edward Norton

Journal Article

The Impact of Unemployment and Non-Standard Forms of Employment on the Housing Autonomy of Young Adults (2020)

Katerina Gousia, Baranowska-Rataj Anna, Thomas Middleton, Olena Nizalova,

Journal Article

Effect of body mass on future long-term care use (2020)

Olena Nizalova, Katerina Gousia, Julien Forder

Journal Article

Does past unemployment experience explain the transition happiness gap? (2018)

Edward Norton, Olena Nizalova, Irina Murtazashvili

Journal Article

The effect of an early-career involuntary job loss on later life health in Europe (2018)

Jonas Voßemer, Michael Gebel, Olena Nizalova, Olga Nikolaieva

Journal Article

Motherhood wage penalty may affect pronatalist policies (2017)

Olena Nizalova

Journal Article

Measuring the productivity of residential long-term care in England: methods for quality adjustment and regional comparison (2016)

Yang W, Forder J, Nizalova O

European Journal of Health Economics

Journal Article

Exogenous treatment and endogenous factors: vanishing of omitted variable bias on the interaction term (2016)

Nizalova O, Murtazashvili I

Journal of Econometric Methods 5, 1, 71-77

Journal Article

The motherhood wage penalty in times of transition (2016)

Nizalova O, Sliusarenko T, Shpak S

Journal of Comparative Economics 44, 1, 56-75

Book Sections

Book Section

Effects of unemployment and insecure jobs on youth wellbeing in Europe: economic development and business cycle fluctuations (2022)

Olena Nizalova, Gintare Malisauskaite, Despoina Xanthopoulou, Katerina Gousia, Christina Athanasiades

Policy Press Bristol UK

Book Section

Youth Labour Market in Central and Eastern Europe (2018)

Magda Rokicka, Kadri Taht, Marge Unt, Olena Nizalova,

Springer Cham

DP or working papers

DP or working paper

Care home markets in England: changes over time and impact of local authority expenditure on supply (2020)

Allan S, Nizalova, O

DP or working paper

Heterogeneity in the effect of obesity on future long-term care use in England (2019)

Gousia K, Nizalova O, Malisauskaite G, Forder J,

QORU working paper 5816

DP or working paper

The impact of formal care on informal care for people over 75 in England (2019)

Saloniki E, Nizalova O, Malisauskaite G, Forder J

ESHCRU working paper 5812

DP or working paper

Body mass, physical activity and future long-term care use (2018)

Nizalova O, Gousia K, Forder J

QORU working paper 2954

Conference presentation outputs

Conference presentation output

Body Mass, Physical Activity and Future Care Needs (2015)

Nizalova O, Forder J, Gousia K

Blogs

Blog

Motherhood wage penalty may affect pronatalist policies (2017)

Nizalova O

Blog

The clampdown on NHS agency staff spending; addressing symptoms instead of causes? (2015)

Vadean F, Nizalova O