Sara de la Rica is a Full Professor of Economics at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). Her PhD is from the Department of Economics at the University of the Basque Country. Her research interests include Gender Economics, Immigration, Education and Labour Market Institutions.
She is co-editor of the IZA Journal of European Labour Studies. She was the President of The European Society of Population Economics (ESPE) (2012) and was secretary of ESPE since January 2005 until December 2010.
Her work has been published in Labour Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Economic Enquiry, Industrial and Labor Relations Review and Journal of Human Resources among others.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2005.