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Social policies

Marie Hyland

Research officer

Marie Hyland joined Eurofound as a research officer in the Social Policies unit in 2023. Prior to this, Marie spent several years as an economist at the World Bank, where she worked on a range of issues including gender, climate change and private sector development. Marie’s research has looked at the impact of legal discrimination on women’s economic empowerment, considered the role of firm size and managerial practices on productivity and economic development, and analysed the economics of climate change mitigation policies. Marie holds a PhD in Economics from Trinity College Dublin.

Topics of expertise

Marie is an expert in the following topics.

Research outputs

Marie is the author of the following publications.

Events, podcast and blog

Marie has contributed the following events, blog posts and podcast episodes.

Thursday, 8 May 2025
Eurofound’s Annual Lecture 2025: Living and working in Europe - CDE
Eurofound’s will hold its third Annual Lecture ‘Living and working in Europe 2025’ on 8 May in Dublin with the support of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, to mark Europe Day and to celebrate Eurofound’s 50 years of supporting better policies for a strong social Europe in 2025.
In-person event
Joint event
14 November 2024
Episode 25Episode 25 – Is climate change making work more dangerous in Europe?
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Podcast episode

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