About
I am a social scientist with a background in economics (PhD) and public administration (MA). I study the impact of technology on the labor market, skills, migration and diasporas. I am interested in development, public policy and labor economics. I am currently a resident scientist at the Complexity Science Hub and a visiting professor at the Central European University, both located in Vienna, Austria. I co-direct the Growth CoLab at CEU.
What's new?
New publication in Research Policy: "Skill Mismatch and the Cost of Job Displacement", with Frank Neffke and Simon Wiederhold.
New publication in EPJ Data Science: "Mental health concerns prelude the Great Resignation: Evidence from Social Media" with Maria del Rio-Chanona, Alejandro Hermida-Carrillo, Melody Sepahpour-Fard, Luning Sun, and Renata Topinkova.
My team and I won the DRUID 2023 Best Paper Award for the paper "Eight Decades of Changes in Occupational Tasks, Computerization and the Gender Pay Gap", with Shreyas Gadgin Matha, James McNerney, Andre Assumpcao, Dario Diodato, and Frank Neffke.
We analyze whether the closing of the gender pay gap in the U.S. happened because of technological change or despite of it, using a unique new longitudinal dataset of detailed job content, socio-economic data and labor market outcomes.
PILLARS newsletter article summarizing the paper Skill Mismatch and the Cost of Job Displacement (with Frank Neffke and Simon Wiederhold).
UNIDO blog Engaging the diaspora in internationalizing Colombia’s economy with Ricardo Hausmann, Julian Hinz and AnnaLee Saxenian.
Growth Lab podcast Engaging the diaspora in internationalizing Colombia’s economy with Ricardo Hausmann and AnnaLee Saxenian.
New paper "Lessons from eight decades of occupational tasks and skills in the U.S. economy (1939-2020)" (recently presented at the ASSA 2022 conference, and the PILLARS 2022 conference) is coming soon. Here is the conference draft.