She earned her PhD in Economics in 2006 at the Faculty of Economics, University of Warsaw, she also holds a degree from the Katholike Universiteit Leuven. Between 2007 and 2017 she served as an Economic Advisor at the Economic Institute of National Bank of Poland, specialising in labor market and household issues. She has also been a consultant to The World Bank in projects on labour market issues. In 2009 she was a Fulbright scholar at Columbia University, and in 2010 she was a Mellon Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. Her tenure book, Unemployment Hysteresis in Poland was awarded the Prize for Best Economic Book of 2014 by Polish Economic Association.