He has been at the Interamerican Development Bank since 1995, and since 1997 he works at the IADB’s Research Department. He obtained his PhD in Economics at Boston University in 1989. Between that date and 1995 he was Professor of Labor Economics at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, the leading business school in Venezuela, teaching in the Institute’s MBA program and doing extensive research on the Venezuelan labor market. As Chief Technical Advisor of a joint ILO-UNDP project between 1983 and 1985 he advised the Government of Venezuela on the design and implementation of labor market and income policies. He has worked as a consultant for the US Agency for International Development, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the United Nations Development Program.
He is the author of a number of articles and books on labor market regulations, income distribution, poverty, social security, and social and income policies, such as Economía Informal (Ed. IESA, 1990), La regulación del mercado de trabajo en América Latina (Ed. CINDE, 1993), Reforming the labor market in a liberalizing economy (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1995), Ties that bind: employment protection and labor market outcomes in Latin America (with C. Pages, IADB 1998), Labor markets and income support: what did we learn from the crises? ( Brookings Institution, 2000), A new labor policy agenda (IPES 2003, IADB) Search methods and outcomes: the case of Venezuela (with C.Ruiz-Tagle, IADB 2004).
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