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Talking Economics Emerging Scholars: Sona Badalyan
Wednesday, 18 February, 2026

The Talking Economics: Emerging Scholars podcast series highlights the research and career journeys of CERGE-EI PhD in Economics candidates and recent graduates. In this episode, we speak with Sona Badalyan, one of our current job market candidates.Sona is an applied microeconomist with interests in labor, public, and personnel economics. Her job market paper examines internal labor markets, exploring how firm organization, labor market institutions, and frictions shape outcomes for workers and firms in an aging economy.00:00 Introduction01:20 Path to a PhD decision05:10 Challenges and mobility stays08:06 Motivation for a dissertation topic08:53 Intra-firm spillovers of raised retirement age15:30 Old-age employment and organizational structures17:50 Peer Effects in old-age employmenthttps://cerge-ei.cz/https://instagram.com/cergeei/https://facebook.com/cergeei/https://x.com/CERGE_EI/https://bsky.app/profile/cerge-ei.bsky.social