Charles Gottlieb
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, University of Geneva
On leave from Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE)
Associate Researcher, Yale Economic Growth Center
📧 gottlieb.charles@gmail.com
Charles Gottlieb
Visiting Associate Professor of Economics, University of Geneva
On leave from Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE)
Associate Researcher, Yale Economic Growth Center
📧 gottlieb.charles@gmail.com
I am a macroeconomist studying economic development. My research combines macroeconomic theory with large-scale harmonized international microdata to understand how labor markets and time use evolve during the process of economic development, and how these changes affect productivity, inequality, and welfare.
A central part of my research is the development of global microdata infrastructures. I created the Harmonized World Labor Force Survey (HWLFS) and the Harmonized World Time Use Survey (HWTUS) by collecting and harmonizing household, labor force, and time-use survey microdata from national statistical agencies worldwide. Together, these datasets provide internationally comparable individual level data covering more than 120 countries, providing a foundation for research on labor markets, structural transformation, gender, inequality, and economic development.
News
Juli 2026: Our Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI) paper is conditionally accepted at AER:Insights.
Mai 2026: We were awarded a five-year FUNIGE Grands Projets grant at the University of Geneva.
April 2026: We wrote a short paper on "Who Counts as Employed? The Gendered Consequences of Redefining Employment" to be published at Mondes en DĂ©veloppement.
March 2026: Our project In Search of Lost Time: Time-Use for Macro-Development has been awarded an SNSF grant (2026–2029).
December 2025: New version of our paper Gender Gaps and Economic Growth: Why Haven't Women Won Globally (yet)?Â
October 2025: Updated version of Skill Supply, Firm Size and Economic Development. A first version of the paper was a Background paper for the World Bank's 2024 World Development Report.
September 2025: We launched the work-in-data website!
September 2025: New version of our paper From Skills to Occupations: Comparative Advantage and Cross-Country Income DifferencesÂ
August 2025: The first version of Global Gender Distortions Index (GGDI) paper is now online.
July 2025: We were awarded a Large Research Grant by the STEG-CEPR Â !