Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta

Research Fellow

World Bank

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Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University in 2005 and joined the Human Development Unit in the Europe and Central Asia Region at the World Bank in August 2005. Currently she is working as a Labor Economist at the Social Protection and Labor Unit of the World Bank.

Her research lies on the intersection of Labor and Development Economics. Among the topics she is currently studying are cognitive/non-cognitive skills and labor outcomes, design/implementation/evaluation of active labor market programs, income mobility in Latin America, informality and labor market segmentation, and the effects of globalization on working conditions.

She joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2007.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12864
The Jobs That Youth Want and the Support They Need to Get Them: Evidence from a Discrete Choice Experiment in Kenya
Angela Elzir Assy, Tiago Ribeiro, David A. Robalino, Furio C. Rosati, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta, Michael Weber
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12259
From Ghana to America: The Skill Content of Jobs and Economic Development
Salvatore Lo Bello, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta, Hernan Winkler
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10224
The Skill Content of Occupations across Low and Middle Income Countries: Evidence from Harmonized Data
Emanuele Dicarlo, Salvatore Lo Bello, Sebastian Monroy-Taborda, Ana Maria Oviedo, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta, Indhira Santos
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3184
Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela: Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses
Gary S. Fields, Robert Duval Hernández, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13, 103-128.
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