Alejandra Cox Edwards is Professor of Economics,
and also serves as Associate Chair and Graduate Advisor for the Economics
Department at California State University Long Beach.
She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the Catholic University of Chile.
From 1993 through 1996 she was a Senior Labor Economist at the World Bank. During this period she worked on labor market issues in a number of countries, including Bolivia, Iran, Indonesia and Argentina. Her consulting work has dealt with gender, legislation, social security, training, compensation and other labor market issues around the world.
Her most recent research deals with labor market reform, social security reform, gender issues, old age and poverty, and labor market performance in emerging and transition economies. Her book The Gender Impact of Social Security Reform (co authors Estelle James and Rebeca Wong) was published by The University of Chicago Press in August 2008.
She is the author of a number of professional articles and the co-author of a scholarly book on the market reforms in Chile published in 1991 by the University of Chicago Press. She is also a co-author of the World Bank's World Development Report, 1995, which dealt with labor markets in emerging and transition economies.
For a list of some of her publications click
on "Selected Papers." To download some
of her more recent work click on "Recent Papers."