Karolina Goraus-Tańska is an assistant professor at Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, and Consultant at the World Bank. Her research focuses on labor economics and public finance, with particular interest in inequalities in wages and employment opportunities and distributional effects of taxes and transfers. Her recent publications cover problems of minimum wage non-compliance in Central and Eastern Europe, gender gaps in the labor markets of the EU member states, and comprehensive analysis of inequality and poverty reducing effect of fiscal system in Poland. In the World Bank she is supporting Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice and Poverty Global Practice.