Carmen Pagés-Serra Explained

Carmen Pagés-Serra (Barcelona, 1965) is the Chief of the Labor Markets Division of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Life

Pagés-Serra graduated in economics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and took her Ph.D. in economics from Boston University.

After working for the World Bank from 2004 to 2006, Pagés-Serra joined the IDB as a principal research economist at the Research Department and led publications such as The Age of Productivity: Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up.^[1] She is also the author of the book Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean^[2] jointly with the Nobel Laureate Prof. James Heckman and Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and Policy Challenges).^[3]

She has published extensively in leading academic and policy journals in the areas of labor markets, social security and productivity.

External links

1. Labor Markets and Social Security Unit at the Inter-American Development Bank.
2. List of Carmen Pagés-Serra's publications.
3. Carmen Pagés-Serra at IDEAS

Notes and References

1. Ed. Pages-Serra, C. (2010). "The Age of Productivity: Transforming Economies from the Bottom Up ", Development in the Americas (DIA), Washington, D.C.
2. Ed. Heckman, J., Pages, C. (2004): "Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean", The University of Chicago Press.
3. Pagés, C., Pierre, G. and Scarpetta, S. (2005): "Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and Policy Challenge", Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, England.