Konstantinos Pouliakas is an Expert on Skills and Labour Markets at the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen Business School. He is the lead expert of Cedefop's skill mismatch and future of work projects and team leader of its Skills and Work team. He has designed and steered the data collection of the 2 waves of the European skills and jobs survey.

A graduate of St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, he completed his PhD studies as part of the Scottish Graduate Program in Economics in 2007, under a fully-funded EU Fellowship. He has held positions as Invited Professor at University Roma Tre, Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen and Invited Lecturer at the University of Cyprus. He has also been a Research Intern at the Bank of Greece and HM Treasury and Research Scholar at the International Monetary Fund.

His current interests lie within the fields of Skills, Applied Labour and Personnel Economics, with emphasis on financial incentives, human capital theory and flexible forms of work. He has published widely in high-profile policy reports (e.g. European Commission, World Economic Forum) and in academic journals, including Economica, Journal of Economic Surveys, Research in Labor Economics, Regional Studies, Education Economics, Industrial Relations, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Kyklos and International Labour Review.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in September 2009.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15344
Konstantinos Pouliakas, Antonio Ranieri
published in: W. Conen and E. Reuter (eds.), Research Handbook on Self-employment and Public Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15343
Konstantinos Pouliakas, Patricia Wruuck
also available as: European Investment Bank (EIB) Economics Working Papers 2022/07
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13408
published in: Monastiriotis, V. and Katsinas, P. (eds.) The Economic Impact of Covid-19 in Greece, Hellenic Observatory, LSE, 2020, 70 - 128
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13281
Konstantinos Pouliakas, Jiri Branka
also available as Cedefop working paper No. 6201, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12541
published in: Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2023, 32 (3), 370-392
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11829
published as 'Risks posed by automation to the European Labour Market ' in: Hogarth, T. (ed) Economy, employment and skills: European, regional and global perspectives in an age of uncertainty, Rome, 2018, 45 - 74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10786
revised version published as 'Skills mismatch: Concepts, Measurement and Policy Approaches' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2018, 32 (4), 985-1085
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9698
published in: S.W. Polachek et al. (eds.): Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets (Research in Labor Economics, 45) , 2017, 81 - 127
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