Work in Progress
Why Have Central Banks in Latin America Persisted in the Error for So Long?, with Andrea González
More Heat than Light: Telework in Latin America during the COVID-19 Pandemic, with Israel Mora
This version: presented at the Working from Home Conference, organized by ICEA
How High (Low) are the Possibilities of Teleworking in Mexico? with Israel Mora
This version: September 2021. Download our telework classification
Featured in El Economista (in Spanish), October 2021
Column in Foco Económico (in Spanish), March 2021
Published Work
Chapters in Books
Routine occupations and informality in Brazil, October 2024
Is informality in Brazil delaying the routinization of manufacturing employment? It appears so.Technological Change and Labor Markets: Productivity, Job Polarization, and Inequality, Chapter 10. Taylor & Francis, 2024
Peer-Reviewed Journals
Informal labor markets in times of pandemic, with Carlos Urrutia
Was there Urquidi's "vuelta al quelite" in the COVID-19 pandemic? No.Review of Economic Dynamics, Vol. 47, 158-185, January 2023
Replication Files. Updated readme file
First place, Victor L. Urquidi Award in Economics 2021, March 2022
Column in Foco Económico (in Spanish), March 2021
Column, Centro de Análisis e Investigación Económica, ITAM (in Spanish), March 2021
Featured in El Universal (in Spanish), February 2021
Labor market policies and business cycles in emerging economies, with Ruy Lama and Carlos Urrutia
Labor market policies may work differently in emerging economies. What looks good only sometimes works as intended.IMF Economic Review, 70, 330-337, June 2022
Informality, labor regulation, and the business cycle, with Carlos Urrutia
Does informal employment condition the business cycle? In Mexico, yes.Journal of International Economics, Vol. 126, September 2020, 103340