Aga Skowronek is an Economist at CASE – Center for Social and Economic Research, working predominantly in fiscal and social policy projects.
They are currently researching net wealth taxes as part of the “Wealth taxation, including net-wealth, capital and exit taxes” project. In addition, Aga is also carrying out their own project, funded through the NCN PRELUDIUM grant, which will use oral history to examine how women experienced the economic transformation in Poland, focusing in particular on care work, the domestic sphere, and the impact of different intersecting social identities.
Their research interests include income and wealth inequality, unpaid care work, feminist economics, alternative solutions in the field of social welfare, the Eastern European economic transition and questions of Otherness and nesting orientalisms in the context of this region. Outside of their research work they are also interested in psychology, in particular topics relating to trauma and neurodivergence.
