Anil Duman

Anil Duman is a Professor at Central European University in Vienna, Austria, where she specializes in political economy and labor economics. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her research agenda focuses on the relationship between labor market structures and political behavior, with particular attention to questions of redistribution, gender-based inequalities, and the development and transformation of social policy regimes. A core strand of her recent work examines the dynamics of informality and dual labor markets, investigating how segmented employment systems produce inequalities and its political consequences. In addition, she conducts research on the socioeconomic consequences of migration, particularly in developing country contexts. Duman is also engaged in several international research collaborations that investigate the labor market and political implications of the green transition. These projects assess the distributive effects of climate and environmental policies, exploring how such transformations interact with existing labor market inequalities and influence political attitudes across a range of institutional environments.

Anil Duman currently teaches at the masters, and doctoral levels at CEU, where she also serves as the head of Political Science Department. She has previously held visiting professorships at Economic Research Forum, Koc University and International Political Economy Program at Bilgi University. Anil Duman also worked at the Research Department of International Labour Organization (ILO).

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Anıl Duman, Mihail Arandarenko and Dragan Aleksic​ (2025) Crisis Corporatism under Strain: Institutional Power and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups in Türkiye and Serbia. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research.

Anıl Duman, Marta Kahancova and Chaitawat Boonjubun (2025) Can crisis corporatism protect the vulnerable? Conceptual insights from a European perspective. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research.

Anıl Duman, Marta Kahancova, Minna van Gerven and Rense Nieuwenhuis (2025) From crisis corporatism to reshaping European labour markets to defend vulnerable workers. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research.

Anıl Duman (2025) Informal Workers as Outsiders: political participation and voice across MENA countries. Political Studies. 

Anıl Duman (2023) Gendered Relationship between Temporary, Informal Employment and Wages: Evidence from Turkish labor market. Feminist Economics.

Anıl Duman (2023) Feeling Insecure and Excluding Immigrants: relationship between subjective risks and welfare chauvinism. Social Policy and Administration.

Anıl Duman, Janine Berg, Sevane Ananian and Hannah Liepmann (2023) World employment and social outlook 2023: The value of essential work. Geneva: International Labor Organization.

Anıl Duman and Alper Duman (2022) Türkiye’de Asgari Ücret: Kurumsal Düzenleme mi Piyasa Kısıtları mı?. METU Studies in Development, 49, pp. 83-107.

Anıl Duman, Martin Kahanec and Lucia Mýtna Kureková (2022) Closing the gaps: the positive effects of welfare inclusion on immigrants’ labor market integration. In E.A. Koning (ed.) The Exclusion of Immigrants from Welfare Programs: Cross-National Analysis and Contemporary Developments. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, pp. 79-101.

Anıl Duman (2022) Welfare Nationalism and Rising Prejudice against Migrants in Central and Eastern Europe. In E. Balkan and Z. Tonak (eds). Refugees on the Move: crisis and responses in Turkey and Europe. Berghahn Books, pp. 111-133.

Anıl Duman (2022) Mixed Perceptions of State Responsibility among Informal Sector Participants in MENA. In A. Polese (ed.) Informality, Labour Mobility and Precariousness: supplementing the state for the invisible and the vulnerable. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 251-276.

Anıl Duman and E. Pınar Dönmez (2021) Marketization of Academia and Authoritarian Governments: The Cases of Hungary and Turkey in Critical Perspective. Critical Sociology, 47(7-8), pp. 1127-1145.

Anıl Duman and Alper Duman (2021) Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Social Exclusion in Turkey. In G. Fischer and R. Strauss (eds.) Europe’s Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality, Oxford University Press, pp. 268-299.

Anıl Duman and Achim Kemmerling (2020) Do you feel like an insider? Job Security and Preferences for Flexibilisation across Europe. Social Policy and Administration, 54(5), pp. 749-764.

Anıl Duman (2020) Subjective Social Class and Individual Preferences for Redistribution: cross-country empirical analysis. International Journal of Social Economics, 47(2): 173-189.

Anıl Duman (2020) Precarious Employment Intersecting with Gender: are women punished more?. In M. Walker (ed.) Female Voices from the Worksite: The Impact of Hidden Bias against Working Women Across the Globe. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp. 3-25.