Katrin Gasior

Research Affiliate

EDUCATION

PhD in Applied Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, UK

LANGUAGES

German (mother tongue), English

CONTACT

Phone: +43 664 576 40 98
E-mail: Katrin Gasior

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Quantitative social scientist researching welfare states, poverty, and inequality across Europe and the Global South, examining how tax-benefit institutions shape income distribution, social stratification, and vulnerability — with a particular focus on gender and climate-related risks.

 

PROJECTS

Analysis of non-take up of minimum income benefits in Austria

Social situation monitor

Mobilising the potential of active ageing in Europe

EUROMOD extension to indirect taxation

‘Good care’ from the perspective of care workers

Families in the economic crisis

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

  • Gasior, K., Avram, S., & Popova, D. (2025). Invisible gaps: Women’s individual poverty risks and the gendered failings of the adult worker model. Economic Systems, 50(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecosys.2025.101363
  • Gasior, K., Rattenhuber, P., Shahir, A. A., & Zasova, A. (2024). Raindrop in the drought? Vulnerability to climate shocks and the role of social protection in Zambia (WIDER Working Paper No. 88/2024). United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER). https://doi.org/10.35188/UNU-WIDER/2024/553-0
  • Gasior, K., Jara, H. X., & Makovec, M. (2024). Assessing the effectiveness of social protection measures in mitigating COVID-19-related income shocks in the European Union. Economic Analysis and Policy, 83, 583–605. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2024.07.004
  • Gasior, K., Wright, G., Barnes, H., & Noble, M. (2023). Adaptive social protection in Indonesia: Stress-testing the effect of a natural disaster on poverty and vulnerability. Social Policy & Administration. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12983
  • Fuchs, M., Gasior, K., Premrov, T., Hollan, K., & Scoppetta, A. (2020). Falling through the social safety net? Analysing non-take-up of minimum income benefit and monetary social assistance in Austria. Social Policy & Administration, 54(5), 827–843. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12581

 

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