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1 E UROPEAN CURRICULUM VITAE FORMAT Last updated 20 November 2009 PERSONAL INFORMATION Name VÕRK, Andres Address TÄHE 91A-12, TARTU, 50107, ESTONIA Telephone Nationality Estonian Date of birth 12/3/1974 WORK EXPERIENCE Dates (from to) Name and address of employer Type of business or sector Occupation or position held Main activities and responsibilities Dates (from to) Name and address of employer Type of business or sector Occupation or position held Main activities and responsibilities PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies, Estonia pst 5a, Tallinn, Estonia Independent not-for-profit think tank, research in economic, labour, social, education and innovation policy Senior researcher in labour and social policy Project management Statistical and econometric analysis of labour and social policy issues Writing research papers and policy analyses 2008 Institute of Economics, University of Tartu, Estonia Academic, Public Lecturer Preparing and holding lectures in econometrics, evaluation techniques, social policy, and health economics Dates (from to) Name and address of employer Institute of Economics, University of Tartu, Estonia Type of business or sector Academic, Public Occupation or position held Research fellow Main activities and responsibilities Writing research papers in economics Preparing and holding lectures in econometrics Dates (from to) Name and address of employer Institute of Economics, University of Tartu, Estonia Type of business or sector Academic, Public Occupation or position held Research Assistant Main activities and responsibilities

2 EDUCATION AND TRAINING Dates (from to) Name and type of organization providing education and training Principal subjects/occupational skills covered 2000 present University of Tartu, Estonia PhD program in Economics Dates (from to) Name and type of organization Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of providing education and training Tartu, Estonia Principal subjects/occupational Economics skills covered Title of qualification awarded Master (MA - magister artium) Dates (from to) Name and type of organization Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of providing education and training Tartu, Estonia Principal subjects/occupational Economics; major in Economic Modelling skills covered Title of qualification awarded Bachelor (BA - baccalaureus artium) PERSONAL SKILLS MOTHER TONGUE OTHER LANGUAGES Estonian English German Russian Reading skills Excellent Basic Basic Writing skills Very good Basic Basic Verbal skills Very good Fair Basic SOCIAL SKILLS ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS. TECHNICAL SKILLS With computers, specific kinds of equipment, machinery, etc. Experienced to conduct research in an international team Experience with project management Experience with organizing seminars and international conferences Competent with statistical and econometric software: Stata, EViews, SPSS Methods to evaluate impact of active and passive labour market policies Building simulation models for social policy and tax policy Development of policy indicators and statistics Cross-country analysis of the indicators of tax-benefit systems Lecturing econometrics, economic evaluation techniques, social policy, health economics ANNEXES SELECTION OF RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS 2

3 SELECTION OF RESEARCH Thematic evaluations of Community and Estonian policies Analysis of sustainability of the Estonian health care system Recipient: Estonian Health Insurance Fund Start-end date: Main tasks/role: researcher, statistical analysis, building long-term simulation models Income-related inequality in health care financing and utilization in Estonia Recipient: World Health Organization Start-end date: Main tasks/role: researcher, statistical and microeconometric analysis Tax policies and R&D investments in Estonia Recipient: Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communication, Estonia Start-end date: 2009 Main tasks/role: project leader, statistical analysis Impact of parental benefits on female labour force participation and fertility behaviour Start-end date: Main tasks/role: project leader, statistical analysis Distribution of tax burden in Estonia Recipient: Estonian Ministry of Finance Start-end date: Main tasks/role: project leader, researcher, building microsimulation models Net social benefits Recipient: Statistics Estonia, Eurostat Start-end date: Main tasks/role: project leader, researcher, statistical analysis Recipient: Transition costs of reformed pension systems European Commission s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities Start-end date: 2007 Main tasks/role: researcher, statistical analysis Household catastrophic health expenditures and distribution of taxation burden in Estonia Recipient: World Health Organization Start-end date: 2007 Main tasks/role: researcher, statistical and microeconometric analysis Verification of collective redundancy notification and European Restructuring Monitor data Recipient: GHK Consulting for the European Monitoring Centre on Change Start-end date: Main tasks/role: national expert, writing a report on Estonia Improving the Capacity and Usability of EUROMOD (I-CUE) Recipient: European Commission (FP6 project) Start-end date: Main tasks/role: providing input for the EUROMOD on Estonian tax-benefit system and household microdata, writing a feasibility study on Estonia Tax/benefit Policies and Growth Potential of the EU Recipient: European Commission (FP6 project) Start-end date:

4 Main tasks/role: Econometric analysis of tax-benefit systems and labour market institutions in the New Member States and their impact on labour supply and employment The evaluation of impact of benefits on poverty reduction using a microsimulation model Start-end date: Main tasks/role: researcher, developing an Estonian tax-benefit microsimulation model Evaluation of the effectiveness of labour market services for those made collectively redundant Recipient: Unemployment Insurance Fund, Estonia Start-end date: Main tasks/role: project leader, researcher, microeconometric analysis Evaluating impacts and cost-effectiveness of active social policy and active labour market policy on inclusion Recipient: Ministry of Labour, Finland, for the European Commission Start-end date: 2006 Main tasks/role: writing a short overview on active labour market policies in Estonia Analysis of labour supply incentives in the Estonian tax-benefit system Start-end date: Main tasks/role: project leader, researcher, building an Estonian tax-benefit microsimulation model Impact of parental benefits on female labour force participation and fertility behaviour Recipient: Ministry of Social Affairs, Minister of Population, Estonia Start-end date: Main tasks/role: project leader, researcher, microeconometric analysis The economic consequences of ill-health in Estonia Recipient: World Health Organization; Ministry of Social Affairs, Estonia Start-end date: Main tasks/role: researcher, statistical and microeconometric analysis Collective redundancies in Estonia Recipient: Unemployment Insurance Fund, Estonia Start-end date: 2005 Main tasks/role: researcher, statistical and microeconometric analysis of the labour market behaviour of those made collectively redundant Sustainability of Estonian health care financing Recipient: Social commission of the Estonian Parliament Start-end date: 2005 Main tasks/role: researcher, making long-term simulations of Estonian health insurance revenues Evaluation of active labour market programmes in Estonia Main tasks/role: researcher, microeconometric analysis Regional and socio-economic determinants of access to health care in Estonia Recipient: Ministry of Social Affairs Main tasks/role: researcher, microeconometric analysis Analysis of the Estonian pension system with respect to the EU policy on adequacy and financial sustainability of pension systems Recipient: State Chancellery, Estonia 4

5 Main tasks/role: researcher, long-run scenarios of the pension system, analysis of retirement behaviour, analysis of pension distributions Older workers in the labour market and work life in Estonia Main tasks/role: researcher, statistical analysis Evaluation of migration potential of Estonian health care workers Recipient: Ministry of Social Affairs Main tasks/role: researcher, analysis of survey data, simulation of health personnel requirement and schooling requirement The effect of EU accession on wages and labour migration in Estonia Recipient: State Chancellery, Estonia Start-end date: 2003 Main tasks/role: researcher, statistical analysis Estonian pension reform Recipient: International Labour Office Start-end date: 2003 Main tasks/role: researcher, long-term forecasts on the Estonian pension system The effect of social benefits on labour supply and retirement Recipient: Ministry of Social Affairs Start-end date: Main tasks/role: researcher, microeconometric analysis of the effects of social benefits on labour supply, calculation of indicators of work incentives The impact of changes of value-added tax system on Estonian agricultural producers Recipient: Ministry of Agriculture, Estonia Start-end date: 1999 Main tasks/role: researcher, simulation of the effects of VAT changes on producers' revenue Publications and reports 1. Poltimäe, H.; Võrk, A. (2009). Eesti keskkonnamaksude jaotuslik mõju. (Distributional impact of environmental taxes in Estonia) In: Eesti majanduspoliitilised väitlused - 17, Raudjärv, M (Ed.). Berlin, Tallinn: Berliner Wissenchafts-Verlag, Mattimar, 2009, Võrk, A, Saluse, J, Habicht, J. (2009) Income-related inequality in health care financing and utilization in Estonia , Health Financing Technical Report, World Health Organization. 3. Võrk, A, Karu, M., Tiit, E-M. (2009) Vanemahüvitis: kasutamine ning mõjud tööturu- ja sündimuskäitumisele (Parental benefits: impact on labour market and fertility behaviour ). PRAXIS Working Papers 1/ Võrk, A., Paulus, A., Poltimäe, H. (2008) Maksupoliitika mõju leibkondade maksukoormuse jaotusele. (Impact of taxation policy on distribution of household s tax burden) PRAXIS Working Papers 42/ Lüpsik, S., Paulus, A., Võrk, A. (2008) Estonia 2005 Tax-Benefit System. EUROMOD Country Report, University of Essex Leppik, L., Võrk, A (2008) Transition costs of reformed pension systems, Report to European Commission s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities 7. Võrk, A. (2007) Household catastrophic expenditures on health care and distribution of taxation burden to households in Estonia Technical report for World Health Organization. 8. Võrk, A., Leetmaa, R. (2007) Kollektiivsetele koondamistele reageerimise tulemuslikkus. (Evaluation of the rapid response scheme in case of collective redundancies). Research report. PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies. 9. Paas, T., Kuusk, A., Schlitte, F., Võrk, A (2007) Econometric analysis of income convergence in selected EU countries and their NUTS 3 level regions. University of Tartu, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Working Paper No. 60,

6 10. Võrk, A., Paulus, A. (2007) Peredele suunatud rahaliste toetuste mõju vaesuse leevendamisele Eestis (The effect of cash support to families on alleviating poverty in Estonia), Riigikogu Toimetised (Journal of Estonian Parlament) 15/2007, lk Võrk, A., Leetmaa, R., Paulus, A., Anspal, S. (2007) Tax-benefit Systems in the New Member States and their Impact on Labour Supply and Employment. PRAXIS Working Paper No 26/ Anspal, S. Võrk, A. (2007) Labour Market Institutions and Productivity in the New EU Member States. PRAXIS Working Paper No 27/ Paulus, A., Võrk, A., Alho, K. A (2007) Comparative General Equilibrium Analysis of the Estonian Labour Market. PRAXIS Working Paper No 28/ Leppik, L., Võrk, A. (2006) "Pension reform in Estonia" in Pension Reform in the Baltic States (edited by Elaine Fultz), ILO, Budapest. 15. Lüpsik, S., Paulus, A., Võrk, A. (2006) I-CUE Feasibility Study. Estonia (2005 tax-benefit system). EUROMOD Feasibility Study. 16. Võrk, A., Paulus, A. (2006) Eesti sotsiaaltoetuste ja maksude mõju inimeste tööjõupakkumise stiimulitele (Labour supply incentives in the Estonian tax-benefit system). Research report. PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies. 17. Võrk, A. Active labour market policies and its consequences in Estonia. In Does Inclusion Pay? Evaluating Impacts and Cost-Effectiveness of Active Social Policy and Active Labour Market Policy on Inclusion (edited by Hannu Kauppi), Ministry of Labour, November 2006, Final Report. pp Võrk, A., Leppik, L., Leetmaa, R. (2005) Kollektiivsete koondamiste andmete ja praktika analüüs (Analysis of collective redundancies in Estonia). PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies Paas, Tiiu; Võrk, Andres; Scannell, Nancy J. (2004) Self-assessment of households - economic welfare as a manifestation of adjustment to transition and European integration processes in the case of Estonia, International Business and Economic Research Journal (IBER), November Kaldaru, H., Kerem, K., Võrk, A. (2004) Health as Factor of Economic Growth: The Estonian Case. Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Tallinn University of Technology (TUTWPE No 04/104-04/114), 110, Kallaste, E., Võrk, A. (2004) Tervishoiutöötajate vajaduse ja arvu prognoosimine laienenud Euroopa kontekstis (Forecasting demand and supply of health care workers in the context of the enlarged Europe), Riigikogu Toimetised (Journal of Estonian Parliament) 10/2004, lk Leetmaa, R.; Võrk, A. (2004). Evaluation of Active Labor Market Programmes in Estonia in Hinnosaar, M.; Rõõm, T. (eds.) Labour Market Research in Estonia. Papers of the Research Seminar Tallinn, May 9, 2003 ( ). Tallinn. Bank of Estonia. 23. Leetmaa, R. Võrk, A., Kallaste, E. (2004). Older Workers in the Labour Market and Work Life. Working Paper 19/2004. PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies. 24. Leetmaa, R., Võrk, A. (2004) Undeclared Work in Estonia in European Employment Observatory Review: Autumn 2004, pp Kallaste, E., Võrk, A., Priinits, M. (2004). Migration Intentions of Health Care Professionals: the Case of Estonia in New Patterns of Labour Migration in CEE, editor Daniel Pop, AMM Publishing House. 26. Philips, K., Hinnosaar, M., Priinits, M., Võrk, A. (2003) Euroopa Liiduga ühinemise mõju palkadele ja tööjõu vabale liikumisele (Impact of EU accession on Estonian wages and free labour movement), State Chancellery, University of Tartu, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. 27. Leetmaa, R., Võrk, A., Eamets, R., Sõstra, K. (2003). Aktiivse tööpoliitika tulemuslikkuse analüüs Eestis. (Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policies in Estonia.) Tallinn: PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies. 28. Leetmaa, R., Võrk, A. (2003). Peretoetuste mõju pereplaneerimisele ja riigieelarvele (The impact of family benefits on female labour supply and state budget). Policy Analysis No 5. PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies. 29. Birk, M., Võrk, A. (2003) Majanduspoliitilised võimalused sündimuse ja naiste tööturukäitumise mõjutamiseks Eestis (Economic policy measures to influence fertility and female labour market behaviour in Estonia) in Estonian economic policy on the way towards the European Union. Berlin; Tallinn: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH; Mattimar OÜ 2003, pp Kuddo, A., Leetmaa, R., Leppik, L., Luuk, M., Võrk, A. (2002). Sotsiaaltoetuste efektiivsus ja mõju tööjõupakkumisele (Social benefits in Estonia: efficiency and effect on work incentives), PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies, Tallinn. 31. Habicht, J, Võrk, A. Tervisekindlustuse printsiipidest (Principles of Health Insurance). Eesti Arst 2001; 80(10): Habicht, T, Võrk, A. Ülevaade tervisenõudluse teoreetilisest käsitlusest (Overview of the theoretical concept of the demand for health). Eesti Arst 2001; 80(4):

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