Person: Sánchez Puerta, Maria Laura
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Last updated: January 31, 2023
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Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta is a senior economist in the Jobs Group of the Social Protection and Labor Global Practice at the World Bank, where she specializes on the intersection of labor and development economics. She currently leads the jobs and skills agenda and co-leads the global STEP initiative including household and employer surveys measuring adult skills in 17 countries. She prepared one of the first Job Diagnostics at the country level and contributed to an innovative, multi-sector work program on jobs in Kenya.
Maria Laura’s research includes cognitive and non-cognitive skills and labor outcomes; design, implementation, and evaluation of active labor market programs; income mobility in Latin America; informality and labor market segmentation; and the effects of globalization on working conditions. Maria Laura has also supported analytical and operational work in Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, El Salvador, Indonesia, Kenya, Lebanon, Rwanda and Tunisia.
She holds a PhD in Economics from Cornell University and joined IZA as a Research Fellow in 2007.