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
About
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.
Global Microdata Infrastructure
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 original household, labor force, and time-use survey microdata from national statistical agencies worldwide. Together, these datasets provide internationally comparable individual- and household-level data covering more than 100 countries and millions of observations, providing a foundation for research on labor markets, structural transformation, gender, inequality, and economic development.
News
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 !
June 2025: "How does human capital shape economic development?" -- see our blogpost for some answers.
February 2025: Our paper Gendered Patterns of Labor in Agriculture is published in Agricultural Economics.
July 2024: An updated version of The Gender Division of Work Across Countries is now online.