:: University of Texas Inequality Project ::

Laura Spagnolo, graduated from Torcuato Di Tella University in 2000 with a major in International Relations and a minor in International Economics. Research for her senior thesis was passed with special mention.

After that, from 2000 to 2003, Laura took a job with a public agency involved in decentralization and economic development of the Argentine provinces, the Federal Investments Council, CFI.

From 2003 to 2005 she completed a master degree in Public Affairs at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Now she is pursuing her doctorate at the same school. Since 2005 she has been an integrant of the University of Texas Inequality Project (UTIP) led by James K. Galbraith. Her main research interests are income inequality, poverty and social policy in Latin America.

Publications

Galbraith, James, Laura Spagnolo, and Daniel Munévar. 2008. "Inequidad salarial y pobreza urbana en Cuba durante el Periodo Especial." in Procesos de urbanización de la pobreza y nuevas formas de exclusión social. Los retos de las políticas sociales de las ciudades latinoamericanas del siglo XXI, edited by A. Ziccardi. Bogotá: Siglo del Hombre Editores, Clacso-Crop.

Galbraith, James K., Laura Spagnolo, and Daniel Munevar. April 2008. "Inequidad Salarial en Cuba durante el Periodo Especial" América Latina Hoy 48:109-138. Avaliable at: http://www.usal.es/~iberoame/americalatinahoy/resuengalbraithetal48.htm

Spagnolo, Laura and Daniel Munevar. 2008. "After Years of (Economic) Solitude: Neoliberal Reforms and Trends in Manufacturing Sector Pay Inequality in Colombia." UTIP Working Paper, The University of Texas at Austin. Available at: http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/abstract.html#UTIP47

Spagnolo, Laura, Alvaro Quezada, and Viviana Salinas. 2008. "Growth with Equity? Pay Inequality in Chile during the Democratic Era (1990-2006)." UTIP Working Paper, The University of Texas at Austin. Available at: http://utip.gov.utexas.edu/abstract.html#UTIP46

Galbraith, James K., Laura Spagnolo, and Sergio Pinto. 2007. "Economic Inequality and Political Power: A Comparative Analysis of Argentina and Brazil." Business and Politics 9(1). Available at: http://www.bepress.com/bap/vol9/iss1/art3 .

Interview of James K. Galbraith, Economic Supplement, Página 12 (Argentine Newspaper), August 13, 2006. Available at: http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/cash/17-2566-2006-08-14.html

James K. Galbraith, Laura Spagnolo, Daniel Munevar. Pay Inequality in Cuba: The Special Period and After. UTIP Working Paper No 38. June, 2006.

James K. Galbraith, Laura Spagnolo, Sergio Pinto. The Decline of Pay Inequality in Argentina and Brazil following the Crises and Retreat from the Neo-liberal Model. UTIP Working Paper No 34. February, 2006.

Presented papers at the following Conferences:

“Third meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ), University Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 21-July 23, 2009. Attended.

“Pay Inequality in Argentina by Economic Sector and Geographical Jurisdiction between
1994 and 2007”. The XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies
Association (LASA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 11-14, 2009.

“Declining Inequality After the Crisis of Neo-liberalism: Evidence from Argentina, Brazil and Chile, 1990-2007.” 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Boston, Massachusetts ~ August 28-31, 2008. Presented.

“Globalization and the dynamics of wages and regional inequality in the Brazilian and Argentinean labor markets.” Regional Inequalities Conference, Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 17-19 , 2008. Presented by co-author.

“Growth with Equity? Pay Inequality in Chile during the democratic era (1990-2006).” The 2008 Latin American Social and Public Policy Conference, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, February 14-15, 2008. Presented.

“Growth with Equity? Pay Inequality in Chile during the democratic era (1990-2006).” at the XXVIII Annual ILASSA Student Conference, The University of Texas at Austin, February 7-9, 2008. Presented.

“Pay Inequality in the Manufacturing Sector in Colombia (1992-2004).” The Poverty, Economic Integration and International Trade Conference, Latin American Council for Social Sciences (CLACSO-CROP) and Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (UASB), Quito, Ecuador, November 27-29, 2007. Paper accepted.

“Pay Inequality in Argentina: from the Washington Consensus to the Reformist Nationalism of the New Century.” The XXVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Montreal, Canada, September 5-8, 2007. Presented.

“Pay Inequality in Cuba: The Special Period and After.” Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century Conference, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 1-3, 2007. Presented.

“The Decline of Pay Inequality in Argentina and Brazil following the Crises and Retreat from the Neo-liberal Model.” 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia, August 30th-September 3, 2006. Presented.

“The Decline of Pay Inequality in Argentina and Brazil following the Crises and Retreat from the Neo-liberal Model.” The VIII Conference on Globalization and Development, Havana, Cuba, February, 2006. Presented.

Workshop

Luxemburg Income Study Summer Workshop Series, University of Luxembourg Campus, Luxemburg, July 7th to July 12th, 2008.

Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development, and Globalization led by Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University's Initiative for Policy Dialogue and the Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester, England, June 25th-July 13th, 2007.

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