Sandra CAVACO CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Information and Contact Professional address : Laboratoire d Economie Moderne (LEM) Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2) 92, rue d Assas 75270 Paris Cedex 06 Phone : + 33 01 55 42 50 31 Fax : + 33 01 56 24 19 03 E-mail : Sandra.Cavaco@u-paris2.fr Date of birth : January 24 th, 1975 Place of birth : Saint-Etienne, France Citizenship : French Marital status : Single RESEARCH INTERESTS Microeconomics, Labour Economics, Labour Market Policies, Spatial Constraints on Labour Market, Health Economics, Econometrics (panel data, qualitative variables, duration models, simultaneous equations). Econometric Softwares : GAUSS, LIMDEP, SAS and STATA. EDUCATION October 18 th 2003 : Ph. D. in Economics, GATE, University of Lyon II, Summa Cum Laude. Dissertation title : Individual Transitions of Displaced Workers: Econometric Evaluation of an Active Labor Market Program co-supervised by M.C. VILLEVAL (CNRS-Research Director, GATE) and. J.Y. LESUEUR (Professor, University of Lyon II). Jury : Denis Fougère (CNRS, CREST, Paris), David Margolis (CNRS, TEAM, Paris), Pierre Morin (Administrator INSEE, Paris) and Claude Montmarquette (University of Montreal). 1998 : M.A (Post graduate) in Applied Microeconomics, University of Lyon II, Magna Cum Laude. Dissertation title : Job and Workers Flows and Employment Protection: A Microeconomic Analysis, Advisor : M.C. VILLEVAL (CNRS-Research Director, GATE). 1997 : Master's degree in Economics, University Jean-Monnet, Saint-Etienne, Cum Laude. 1996 : Bachelor in Economics, University Jean-Monnet, Saint-Etienne, Cum Laude.
GRANTS Doctoral Fellowship awarded for 3 years in 1998 by the Ministry of Research for my Ph.D. Two grants obtained to favor young researchers international mobility : EURODOC grant from the region Rhones-Alpes (France) providing a financial support for 6 months as a Visiting Fellow at the CIRANO (University of Montréal), Canada. AIRES CULTURELLES grant from the Ministry of Research designed to help young researchers mobility. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor (September 2005 current) : University Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2), Laboratoire d Economie Moderne (LEM). Research Associate, Center for Corporate Performance (CCP) (2005 current) : Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark. Post-doctoral Researcher (August 2004 August 2005) : Department of Economics, Center for Corporate Performance (CCP), Aarhus School of Business, Denmark. Member of the Groupe d Analyse et de Théorie Economique (1998 2004) : GATE CNRS UMR 5824 University Lyon II ENS. Researcher (December 2003 July 2004), ACOSS (Agence Centrale des Organismes de Sécurité Sociale), Ministry of Social Affairs, Employment and Solidarity, Paris. Research area : Evaluation of Labor Market Programs. Lecturer (2001 2003), GATE, University of Lyon II. Assistant lecturer (1998 2001), GATE, University of Lyon II. Visiting fellow, (6 months, 1999-2001) : CIRANO (University of Montreal) and CIRPEE (University of Laval), Canada. Participation to research contracts : Ministry of Employment DARES (1998-200) : Displaced Workers Transitions. Commissariat Général du Plan : (2000-2002) : Mobility and Transitions on the Labour Markets. CNRS APN (2000-2002) : Spatial Aspects of Transitions on the Labour Market. Member of the GDR 2543 ASPE CNRS : Local Labour Markets. Application to an Integrated Project in the 6 th European Framework Programme on Human Resources Field Data and EXPEriments, 2003.
European Project (2003 - ) : Socio-economic and Occupational Effects on the Health Inequality of the Older Workforce (SOCIOLD), Key action 6 : The Ageing Population and Disabilities. Referee activity : Revue Française d Economie, Economie et Statistique, Economie et Prévision and International Journal of Manpower. CONFERENCES AEA (Applied Econometrics Association) : Econometrics of Labour Demand, 2004, Mons, Belgium (paper accepted). AFSE French Economic Association : 2002, Conference on Personnel Economics, Lyon, France ; 2003, Paris, France ; 2004, Paris, France ; 2005, Paris, France. CAED (International Conference on Comparative Analysis of Entreprise (micro) Data) : 2001, Aarhus, Denmark (paper accepted). EALE (European Association of Labor Economists) : 2001, Jyväskylä, Finland ; 2004, Lisbon, Portugal ; 2005, EALE/SOLE, San-Francisco, United-States. ESPE (European Society for Population Economics) : 2005, Paris, France. ESEM (European Meeting of the Econometric Society) : 2003, Stockholm, Sweden ; 2004, Madrid, Spain. IHEA (International Health Economics Association) : 2005, Barcelona, Spain. JMA (Applied Microeconomics Conference) : 2001, Nancy, France ; 2002, Rennes, France ; 2003, Montpellier, France ; 2005, Hammamet, Tunisie (paper accepted). SCSE (Canadian Society of Economics) : 2003, Montreal, Canada. PUBLICATIONS Estimating the Effect of a Retraining Program for Displaced Workers on their Transition to Permanent Jobs, with D. Fougère and J. Pouget, IZA Discussion Paper, n 1513, 2005. Conventions de conversion et durées de chômage, with D. Fougère (CREST-INSEE), Cahier Travail et Emploi, n 4, Documentation Française, forthcoming, 2004.
Stratégies de recherche, contraintes spatiales et hétérogénéité des transitions vers l emploi : Estimation économétrique d un modèle structurel de recherche, with J.Y. Lesueur (University of Lyon II) and M. Sabatier (University of Savoie), L Actualité Economique, vol.80, n 2-3, juin-septembre, 2004. Conventions de conversion et retour à l emploi, with D. Fougère (CREST-INSEE, Paris) and J. Pouget (CREST-INSEE), Economie et Prévision,, n 164-165, 2004. Contraintes spatiales et durée de chômage, with J.Y. Lesueur (University of Lyon II), Revue Française d Economie, n 3, vol. 18, 2004. Recherche d emploi, contraintes spatiales et durée de chômage : une analyse microéconométrique, with K. Bouabdallah (University of Saint-Etienne) and J.Y. Lesueur (University of Lyon II), Revue d Economie Politique, n 1, janvier-février, 2002. WORKING PAPERS / WORK IN PROGRESS Voluntary Participation in Training Programs and Unemployment Duration, Working Paper 2003. Pay Equity Illusion : Discrimination against Women in France, with F. Tournadre (University of Strasbourg III), Working Paper 2005. Estimating a Structural Model of Causal Paths between Health and Socioeconomic Status: A New Evidence from an European Older Workforce Survey, with J.M. Etienne and A. Skalli I., Working Paper 2005. L effet des allégements de la loi Aubry 2 sur l emploi : une évaluation microéconomique ex-post à partir des données Urssaf, avec M. Cornu Pauchet, 2005. TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2005-2006 : Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, Master Statistics, University Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2). International Labor Relations, Postgraduate Program, International Economics, University Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2). Political Economics, Bachelor s degree, University Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2). SAS Applications, Master s degree, Statistics, University Panthéon-Assas (Paris 2). Population Economics, Master s degree, International Economics, University Panthéon- Assas (Paris 2).
2002-2004 : Econometrics Applied to Labour Relations, Postgraduate Program, Applied Microeconomics (Econometrics on panel data, qualitative variables and duration models), University of Lyon II. 2001-2003 : Introduction to Econometric Modelization, Bachelor s degree (Mathematics Applied to Social Science, MASS and B.A. in Econometrics), University of Lyon II. 1999-2001 : Microeconomics, Undergraduate Program in Economics, University of Lyon II. Political Economics (tutorial and lecture), Undergraduate Program in Economics, University of Lyon II. Economics of Information and Agency Theory, Masters in Economics, University of Lyon II. 1998-1999 : Firm microeconomics, Masters in Economics, University of Lyon II. Industrial Economics, Undergraduate Program in Economics, University of Lyon II. LANGUAGES French Portuguese English German (good notions)