Manuelita Ureta

Associate Professor
Labor Economics
(Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1987)

Office Address:
Department of Economics
Allen 3007

Contact Information:
Telephone: (979) 847-9449
Email: manuelita.ureta@tamu.edu
Personal Web Page: http://econweb.tamu.edu/mureta

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Bio

I graduated from the Catholic University of Chile with a B.S. in economics. Then I earned a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA. My first appointment was in 1986 as an assistant professor at the Claremont Graduate University, in Claremont, California. In 1991 I arrived at Texas A&M and in 1995 I was promoted to Associate Professor. My area of interest is labor economics. My current research focuses on human capital and labor markets in Latin America. In particular, I am studying the educational attainment of Nicaraguan children and the labor force participation of married women throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.

Selected Publications

"Living Arrangements, Employment Status, and the Economic Well-Being of Mothers: Evidence from Brazil, Chile, and the United States," The Journal of Family and Economics Issues, 2004.

"International Migration, Remittances, and Schooling: Evidence from El Salvador," Journal of Development Economics, 2003.

"Early-Career Work Experience and Gender Wage Differentials," Journal of Labor Economics, 1995.

"The Importance of Lifetime Employment in the U.S. Economy Revisited," American Economic Review, 1992.

"Panel Estimates of Male and Female Job Turnover Behavior: Can Female Non-Quitters be Identified?" Journal of Labor Economics, 1992.

"Gender Differences in Wages and Job Turnover among Continuously Employed Workers," American Economics Review, 1990.

Currently Teaching

ECMT 463-503

ECON 418-500