Barbara Janta

Analyst
Cambridge Office

Education

Ph.D. (in progress) in employment research, University of Warwick; M.Phil. in sociology, Cambridge University; M.S. in sociology, Nicholas Copernicus University; M.A. in literature & linguistics, Nicholas Copernicus University

Overview

Biography

Barbara Janta is an analyst at RAND Europe. Her research interests include European population ageing, migration and mobility within the EU, employment and social policy, social and economic developments in Central and Eastern Europe, and education policy.

Research Focus

Recent Projects

  • Fertility trends and family policy in Europe
  • Drivers of change and future trends in EU employment and social policy
  • Migrant women in the European labour force: Current situation and future prospects
  • Language matters: the supply of and demand for UK born and educated academic researchers with skills in languages other than English
  • Sustainability of civil service reform in Central and Eastern European countries

Selected Publications

Christian van Stolk, Stijn Hoorens, Philipp-Bastian Brutscher, Priscillia Hunt, Flavia Tsang, Barbara Janta, Life after Lisbon: Europe's Challenges to Promote Labour Force Participation and Reduce Income Inequality, RAND Corporation (MG-1068-RE), 2011

Stijn Hoorens, Jack Clift, Laura Staetsky, Barbara Janta, Stephanie Diepeveen, Molly Morgan Jones, Jonathan Grant, Low fertility in Europe: Is there still reason to worry? RAND Corporation (MG-1080-RE), 2011

Rendall, M.S., Tsang, F., Rubin, J., Rabinovich, L. and Janta, B., "Contrasting trajectories of labor market integration between migrant women in Western and Southern Europe," European Journal of Population, 2010

Ruth Levitt, Barbara Janta, and Kai Wegrich, Accountability of teachers: Literature review, RAND Europe (TR-606-GTC), 2009

Ruth Levitt, Barbara Janta, Alaa Shehabi, Daniel Jones, and Elizabeth Valentini, Language matters: The supply of and demand for UK born and educated academic researchers with skills in languages other than English, RAND Corporation (TR-657-BA), 2009

Jennifer Rubin, Michael Rendall, Lila Rabinovich, Flavia Tsang, Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau, and Barbara Janta, Migrant women in the European labour force, RAND Corporation (TR-591-EC), 2008

Publications

Ofcom: The effectiveness of converged regulation - 2012

Parenting Support Policy Brief - 2012

Parenting Support in Europe: Executive Summary - 2012

Europe's demography: Are babies back? The recent recovery in EU period fertility due to older childbearing - 2011

Evaluating Health Research Funding in Ireland: Assessing the Impacts of the Health Research Board of Ireland's Funding Activities - 2011

How can Europe promote labour force participation and reduce income inequality? - 2011

Life after Lisbon: Europe's Challenges to Promote Labour Force Participation and Reduce Income Inequality - 2011

Low fertility in Europe: Is there still reason to worry? - 2011

Update to The Sigma Scan - 2011

Care to Care? Assessing the challenges of integrating migrant women into Europe's labour force - 2009

International Comparison of Ten Medical Regulatory Systems: Egypt, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa and Spain - 2009

Language matters: The supply of and demand for UK born and educated academic researchers with skills in languages other than English - 2009

Accountability of teachers: Literature review - 2008

Contrasting Trajectories of Labor Market Assimilation between Migrant Women in Western and Southern Europe - 2008

Health Research - Making an Impact: The Economic and Social Benefits of HRB-funded Research - 2008

Improving Organ Donation and Transplantation in the European Union: Assessing the Impacts of European Action - 2008

Le marché du travail européen pour les femmes émigrées (Migrant women in the EU labour force): Résumé des recherches (Summary of findings) - 2008

MIGRANTINNEN IN DER ERWERBSBEVÖLKERUNG DER EU (Migrant women in the EU labour force): Zusammenfassung der Forschungsergebnisse (Summary of findings) - 2008

Migrant women in the EU labour force: Summary of findings - 2008

Migrant women in the European labour force: Current situation and future prospects - 2008

Reducing alcohol harm: International benchmark - 2008