Jeremy Caldeira

After graduating from Western in 2022, I went abroad to Warsaw, Poland, to attend the University of Warsaw, where I received my MA in International Economics in 2024 and started my journey as a researcher and language learner (mówię po polsku!). I was given a job by my MA thesis advisor upon graduation at the Centre of Migration Research, a top producer of migration research output in Europe full of economists, sociologists, demographers, psychologists, and political scientists. Here I contributed to research on labor market integration of Ukrainian refugees in Poland, using my econometrics background especially. It was also here that my colleagues convinced me to try for a PhD. With their support, I was granted admission this year (2025) into the University of Warsaw once again as a doctoral candidate in Economics. I will conduct research on the return intentions of Ukrainian refugees in Poland and Germany, using an intersection of human capital theory, New Economics of Labor Migration, and even (hopefully) the more novel approach of Game Theory simulations. Over the next 4 years, I will complete my PhD, while also completing the much harder task of Polish fluency. I could not be where I am today without the skills and experience I received at Western.