Profile

Ana Cardoso received her Ph.D. in 1997 at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where she was awarded the Prize for the Best Thesis in Economics defended 1995-1998. She completed her first degree in economics and her Masters at the Lisbon Technical University (ISEG). She is currently an Associate Research Professor (Investigador Científico) at the Institute for Economic Analysis of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (IAE-CSIC) and an Affiliated Professor at the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE). Before joining the IAE-CSIC in 2008, she had been a Senior Research Associate at IZA Bonn (Institute for the Study of Labor) in Germany and an Associate Professor at the Minho University in Portugal. She was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California Berkeley from January to December 2011. She is a Research Fellow at IZA Bonn and the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration in London, UK (CreAM). She was an elected member of the Executive Committee and treasurer of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE), from 2006 to 2012.

Ana’s fields of interest are labor economics and economics of inequality. Her work has contributed to our understanding of the role of firms and institutions in shaping workers’ careers. A long-standing characteristic of her research has been to bring the firm to the forefront of the analysis. In that sense, it progressed from the literature in labor, migration, or international trade that most often assumed that firms are homogeneous. Her work has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Human Resources, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Oxford Economic Papers, and Scandinavian Journal of Economics, among others.