Research

• "Enhancing employability and skills to meet labour market needs in Italy," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 1401, OECD Publishing.
• "The Ins and Outs of Forecasting Unemployment Across Countries". Joint with Regis Barnichon. European Economic Review, Special Issue on European Unemployment, 2016.
• "Service Innovation in Developing Economies:Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean". Joint with Luis Rubalcaba and Diego Aboal. The Journal of Development Studies, 2016
• "The Ins and Outs of Employment in 25 OECD countries". OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1350, 2015, OECD Publishing, Paris.
• "Effects of flexibility-enhancing reforms on employment transitions". Joint with Cournède, B. and Denk, O. OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1348, 2016, OECD Publishing, Paris.
• "Effects of Economic Policies on Microeconomic Stability". Joint with Cournède, B., and V. Ziemann. OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No. 1201, 2015, OECD Publishing, Paris. http://www.oecd.org/economy/labour/do-pro-growth-policies-generate-economic-instability-for-households.htm
• "Effects of economic policies on microeconomic volatility". Joint with Cournède, B., and V. Ziemann. OECD Journal: Economic Studies, 2015.
• "Innovation, Firm Size, Technology Intensity and Employment Generation: The Evidence from the Uruguayan Manufacturing Sector". Joint with Aboal, D., Lanzilotta, B. and Perera, M.. Emerging Markets and Financial Trade Journal, Volume 51, Issue 1, 2015. Special Issue: Symposium: Productivity, Trade, and Development in Latin America.
• “Technological and Non-technological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay”. Joint with Aboal, D. Economics of Innovation and Techonology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 25(5), pages 435-454, July. 2016.
• “Does public financial support stimulate innovation and productivity?” joint with Aboal, D. Revista CEPAL. 2015.
• "Does Innovation Destroy Employment in the Services Sector? Evidence from a Developing Country". Joint with Aboal, D., Lanzilotta, B. and Perera, M.. Emerging Markets and Financial Trade. Volume 51, Issue 3, 2015.
• "Innovación en las empresas de servicios en ALC y sus impactos. Evidencia a partir de casos de estudio" Joint with Diego Aboal and Luis Rubalcaba in: D. Aboal, G. Crespi and L. Rubalcaba (eds.), La innovación y la nueva economía de servicios en América Latina y el Caribe. Retos e implicaciones de política, IDRC, Montevideo, Uruguay, 65-104
• "Políticas de innovación en servicios y su impacto en ALC" Joint with Diego Aboal and Maren Vairo in: D. Aboal, G. Crespi and L. Rubalcaba (eds.), La innovación y la nueva economía de servicios en América Latina y el Caribe. Retos e implicaciones de política, IDRC, Montevideo, Uruguay, 65-104

Other Research

• Working on the impact of digitalization on firm-level impact in Chile.
• Working on the future of work and the automation impact in the Chilean labour market.
• "Working in the shadows: informality drivers in Colombia", forthcoming.
• "Faces of Joblessness in Latin America. The case of Chile and Colombia", forthcoming.
• “Wage Losses after displacement in dual labor markets. The role of firm specific human capital” Working paper. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
• “Innovation, Firm Size and Technology intensity and Employment Generation in Uruguay: the microeconometric evidence” joint with Diego Aboal, Bibiana Lanzilotta and Marcelo Perera. IDB technical notes No. IDB-TN-314, 2011
• “Informal Employment and Labor market fluctuations in developing countries”, 2010, Universidad Pompeu Fabra
• “Canales de Transmisión de la Política Monetaria en Uruguay y efecto sobre la inflación” (in Spanish) joint with Fernando Lorenzo, Bibiana Lanzilotta, Guillermo Carlomagno, Gonzalo Zunino. Research Proyect coordinated by Centre of Economic Research in Urguay for the Uruguayan Central Bank, 2010
• Participation in the text book “Para entender la Economía del Uruguay”. Project financed by the IDB. Edited by Fundación de Cultura Universitaria, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2007.
• “Monetary aggregates and inflation in Uruguay: a non-linear relationship?” (in Spanish), joint with Lanzilotta, B.; Mantero, R. XXI Annual Meeting of the Central Bank of Uruguay, Montevideo, 2006.
• “Competitive Real Exchange Rate and Imbalance Solutions” (in Spanish), (joint project with Fernández, A.; Ferreira, M.; Lanzilotta, B. and Mantero, R.) XX Annual Meeting of the Central Bank of Uruguay, August 2005
• “Real effects of the Monetary Policy in Uruguay: An approximation to the study of the interest rate and bank lending channels” (in Spanish), (joint project with Chiesa, P.; and Zerbino, M), Undergraduate thesis, University of the Republic of Uruguay. Montevideo, 2004
• “Description and evaluation of a methodological outline for the diagnosis and prediction of the inflation in Uruguay” (in Spanish), (co-authors Bibiana Lanzilotta and Fernando Lorenzo). XIX Annual Meeting of the Central Bank of Uruguay, August 2004
• “Ratings, debt crisis and bank crisis: the Uruguayan experience in 2002” (in Spanish), (co-authors Adrián Fernández and Nicole Perelmuter). XVIII Annual Meeting of the Central Bank of Uruguay, August, 2003