About

Bianca Buligescu is a researcher in public policies with ten years of experience in carrying out European public policy projects. She currently works as a researcher for the Research Institute for Quality of Life on social policies for vulnerable groups. Bianca’s current research interests is in poverty, NEETs, gender, Roma, day work, health. Bianca’s past research interests was in temporary and part-time employment of tertiary graduate youth and its effects on the type of contract five years later, wage differentials between men and women, wage differentials due to maternity leave, informal payments in health care. Her expertise is in social policy, labour market and innovation economics and sociology. Bianca’s expertise relates in particular to applied economic sociology, applied microeconomics, quantitative sociology.
Bianca also carried work for UNICEF, Eurostat and the World Bank. From 2011 to 2014 Bianca worked as a Researcher at United Nations University –Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), where she was responsible for applied econometrics analysis on innovation and entrepreneurship and building indicators for the European Commission DG Enterprises and Industry. Prior to that Bianca worked for the Graduate School of Government. Bianca published in Oxford Economic Papers and several research reports for the European Commission.

Bianca holds a joint bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Sociology from the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest, Romania, as well as a cum laude MSc degree in Social Policy Analysis from Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, and Doctorate Degree from Romanian Academy in Bucharest, Romania.

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Publications 2

Future employment opportunities and changes in rural youth labour markets Policy brief · 2026