Klarita Gërxhani is Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Sociology and Anthropology. She graduated as an M.A. in Marketing at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tirana, Albania in 1996. After graduation, she worked as a researcher and research coordinator at the Albanian Center for Economic Research and later as a Marketing Specialist at the Albanian Social Marketing Association in Tirana. In the period 1997-2001, she completed her Ph.D. studies on “The Informal Sector in Transition: Tax Evasion in an Institutional Vacuum” at the TinbergenInstitute and the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam. From November 2001 to September 2005, she was affiliated with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) and the Amsterdam School for Social science Research(ASSR) at the University of Amsterdam as a Post-doc, studying institutions, social capital and network formation in the labor market. Since 2004 she is a visiting researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam and a research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute and the Amsterdam School for Social science Research. From September 2005 to September 2011, she was an Assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG), Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Netherlands. She continues to maintain her affiliation with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS).

In March 2005, Klarita won the VENI grant -an individual research grant (min. 3 year-period; covering full salary and research money)- awarded by Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) as part of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme.

Focusing on (inter alia) new institutionalism, economic sociology, labor markets, and informal economies, Klarita has conducted field research and experimental methods as well as applied theory. Her work has appeared in journals such as the International Sociology, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, Public Choice, Journal of Economic Psychology, Feminist Economics and Social Indicators Research.