Fernando Groisman
Visiting Scholar Winter 2009 - Summer 2009
Researcher at National Center for Scientific and Technical Research –CONICET –
(Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas), Argentina

Area of Expertise: Income Mobility, Instability and Distribution , Poverty and Residential Segregation in Argentina.

Country of Expertise: Argentina

Project title: Mobility, Informality, Poverty and Residential Segregation

Current Research Project:
Numerous papers have studied changes in individual and/or family incomes over time, using panel data. Some of these analyse income instability by evaluating its intensity and variation through time, or between groups of individuals, or else by investigating the impact of instability on individual and family welfare. A clearly larger volume of research, however, focuses on income mobility, i.e. changes in the relative position of incomes in the distribution, or the differentials between them, over time.  However there are few investigations that have approached the study of the determinants of those fluctuations, among which the labor factors stand out. Besides, there is growing evidence about the incidence of residential segregation on labor outcomes. This project will explore the relationships among urban segregation, income mobility and informality.

Academic Background:
Ph.D. in Social Sciences (Economics) –FLACSO– Latin American Faculty of
Social Sciences Argentina

Selected Publications:

"Income Mobility in Argentina", Research on Economic Inequality (ROEI), Volume 16, Pages 285-321 (2008) , (with L. Beccaria).

"Efectos distributivos durante la fase expansiva de Argentina (2002-2007)", Revista de la CEPAL 96 (2008), forthcoming

"Informalidad y pobreza en Argentina", Investigación Económica vol. LXVII, núm 266, oct-dic (2008)