Alvaro Zuniga-Cordero
WIL Central America and the Caribbean Coordinator
- Member of the Global Inequalities Laboratory
Research groups
Research themes
- Demography and Migrations
- International Trade and Trade policy
- Political Economy and Institutions
- Structural Change, Inequalities and Development
Contact
Address :48 boulevard Jourdan,
75014 Paris, France
Thesis title:
Three essays on income inequality in Costa Rica
- Thesis supervisor: Ariell Reshef
- Academic year of registration: 2018/2019
- Date of thesis defense: 2024-06-25
- Year of thesis defense: 2023/2024
Declaration of interest
See the declaration of interest
Tabs
Publications
- Chancel, L., Piketty, T., Saez, E., Zucman, G. et al. World Inequality Report 2022, World Inequality Lab. (Contributor).
- “Chapter 15: Social Inequalities, Identity, and the Structure of Political Cleavages in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru, 1952-2019”, with O. Barrera, A. Leiva & C. Martínez-Toledano, in: A. Gethin, C. Martínez-Toledano & T. Piketty (eds.), Political Cleavages and Social Inequalities: A study of fifty democracies, 1948-2020, Harvard University Press, 2021 (published in French by EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil in April 2021).
Working Papers
- Distributional National Accounts Costa Rica: inequality measures from the national to the local level, 2000-2020.
- Globalization, income inequality and political realignment: the transition from a two-party to a multi-party electoral system in Costa Rica.
Work in progress
- Working with “others”: the effect of foreign-born workers on the electoral behaviour of their local-born co-workers in Costa Rica.
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Changes in the offer of higher education and labour market outcomes: the effect of regional university campuses in Costa Rica (2000-2020).