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Curriculum Vitae
June, 2015
GABRIEL BURDĺN
Personal information
Address:
Leeds University Business School
Maurice Keyworth Building
The University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Phone: + 44 0113 3436584
Email: [email protected]
Date of birth:
25 October 1979, Montevideo, Uruguay
Nationality:
Uruguayan
Research interests
Inequality, Labor Economics, Organizational Economics, Employee ownership, Cooperatives
Education
PhD in Economics, University of Siena, June 2013.
1998-2007: B.A. in Economics, Universidad de la República
Current position
April 2015-present, Marie Curie Research Fellow, Leeds University Business School, UK
2007-present, Assistant Professor at Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias
Económicas y Administración, Universidad de la República, Uruguay (UdelaR). (currently
on leave)
Other Affiliations
April 2013-present, IZA Research Affiliate
2009-present, Member of the Uruguayan National System of Researchers (ANII)
Publications
Papers in peer reviewed English-language journals
2015. "Equality under threat by the talented: evidence from worker-managed firms"
(Accepted for publication: The Economic Journal)
2014. "Are worker-managed firms more likely to fail than conventional enterprises?
Evidence from Uruguay", Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, vol. 67(1), pages
202-238, January.
2012. “Revisiting the objectives of worker-managed firms: an empirical assessment” (with
Andres Dean), Economic Systems, 2012, vol 36 (1), pp 158–171.
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2009. “New evidence on wages and employment in worker cooperatives compared with
capitalist firms” (with Andres Dean), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009. Vol 34 (4),
pp 517-533.
Reprinted in Pencavel, John, 2013. The Economics of Worker cooperatives,
Edward Elgar Publishing, The International Library of Critical Writings in
Economics series.
2009. "Social benefits in Uruguay: why do some potential beneficiaries not apply?" (with
Gioia de Melo). CEPAL Review, 2009, Nº 98, pp.141-158.
Working papers, research reports and publications in Spanish
2014. "Workplace Democracy and Job Flows," IZA DP 8539 (con Guillermo Alves y Andres
Dean)
2014. Inequality and Top Incomes in Uruguay: a comparison between household surveys
and income tax micro-data; WTID working paper 2014-1 (with Fernando Esponda and
Andrea Vigorito).
2012. "Empleo, remuneraciones e inversión en cooperativas de Trabajadores: nueva
evidencia para Uruguay". Serie Documentos de trabajo, Instituto de Economía, UdelaR
(with Alves, Guillermo, Paula Carrasco, Andrés Dean and Andrés Rius).
2009. “Evaluación de impacto del PANES” (with Vigorito, Andrea, Amarante Veronica,
Gabriel Burdin, Mery Ferrando, Marco Manacorda and Adriana Vernengo), Final report
Cooperation agreement: UdelaR-Ministry of Social Development, Uruguay, 2009.
2008. “¿Por qué existen pocas empresas gestionadas por sus trabajadores?. Un mapa de la
discusión teórica en economía” (with Andres Dean). Revista Quantum. FCEA, UdelaR.
http://www.quantum.edu.uy/numero2/nota 6.pdf.
Book chapters in Spanish
“El comportamiento demográfico de las cooperativas de trabajadores: observaciones
empíricas y nuevas preguntas para el caso uruguayo” (with Andres Dean), in Gestión
obrera: del fragmento a la acción colectiva. Ed. Nordan Comunidad. SCEAM-UdelaR,
2010.
"Agencia, pobreza y bienestar. Una propuesta para su operacionalización" (with Martín
Leites, Gonzalo Salas and Andrea Vigorito), in Adela Cortina and Gustavo Pereira (eds.),
Pobreza y Libertad, Madrid, Tecnos, 2008.
Other contributions
"Microeconomía: Comportamiento, Instituciones y Evolución". Spanish translation.
Chapter 10. Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution, by Samuel Bowles.
Princeton University Press, 2004.
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Work in progress
Investment decisions in worker-managed firms (with con Paula Carrasco Andrés Dean,
Rodrigo Gorga, Andrés Rius)
"Labor discipline in worker-managed firms"
"Minimum wage and employment" -working title- (with Fedora Carbajal and Ivone Perazzo)
"Control aversion and self-determination: an experiment" -working title- (with Fabio
Landini and Simon Halliday)
Top incomes in Uruguay (with Andrea Vigorito and Mauricio De Rosa)
Teaching experience
2014. Topics in Labor Economics. Master course. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de
Administración, UdelaR.
2014. Economic Research Seminars. Master course. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de
Administración, UdelaR.
2011-2014. Theoretical Approaches to the Concept of Development. Facultad de Ciencias
Sociales, UdelaR. Teaching assistant.
2008-2013. Seminars on the Uruguayan Economy, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de
Administración, UdelaR. Teaching assistant.
2005-2008 Economics I. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración, UdelaR.
Teaching assistant.
Thesis supervision
2011. Innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms. Undergraduate thesis,
UdelaR (with Carlos Bianchi).
Grants, fellowships and awards
2015-2017. Marie Curie Research Fellowship. Project title: "Worker participation and job
preservation under recessionary conditions in Europe". Host institution: Leeds University
Business School.
2014. Best Doctoral Dissertation in Comparative Economic Systems. Premio otorgado por la
European Association for Comparative Economic Studies (EACES).
2008/2012: 4-years PhD Scholarship, University of Siena, Italy.
2013-2015. National Agency for Innovation and Research, Uruguay. Research Projects. Title:
Panel survey on employment, wages and investment in Uruguayan worker cooperatives and
conventional firms (with Paula Carrasco, Andrés Dean and Andrés Rius).
2012, International Association for Economics of Participation (IAFEP). Travel bursary.
IAFEP Conference, Rutgers' School of Management and Labor Relations, 13–15, July, 2012.
2010, Integrating Cooperation Research Across Europe (INCORE). Summer Visit and Travel
Bursary.
2010, International Association for Economics of Participation (IAFEP). Horvat-Vanek
Prize: awarded every two years for a research paper of exceptional quality written by a young
scholar in worker participation.
2009-2011. National Agency for Innovation and Research, Uruguay. Research Projects with
High Social Impact. Title: Employment, wages and investment in Uruguayan worker
cooperatives (with Guillermo Alves, Paula Carrasco, Andrés Dean and Andrés Rius).
2006. International Development Research Center (IDRC) “Impactos de la Integración
Regional del MERCOSUR en el sector cooperativo”. Award to BA thesis projects on
cooperatives (with Andres Dean).
Presentations in seminars and conferences
2014, Workshop on New Economic Teaching, Santiago de Chile. INET-CORE project.
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2014, IAFEP Conference, Montevideo.
2014. Groupe de recherche sur la démocratie interne, University of Louvain, Belgium.
2013, International Society for New Institutional Economics Conference, Florence.
2013, Workshop: "Employee Ownership and its Wider Effects. Strengthening Democracy at
Work and in our Communities", Scottish Universities Insight Institute, Glasgow, Abril, 2013.
2012, International Association for Economics of Participation (IAFEP) Conference, Rutgers'
School of Management and Labor Relations.
2012, Workshop on Social Economy, University of Bologna., Forli Campus, Italy.
2011, Jornadas Académicas, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y de Administración, UdelaR.
2010, CRED Workshop, University of Namur, Belgium.
2008, IAFEP Conference, Hamilton College.
2007, International CIRIEC Research Conference, Victoria, BC, Canada
2006, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina.
Refereeing activities
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Journal of Economic Issues, Empirical Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review
Language Skills
Spanish (mother tongue); English (fluent); Italian (fluent)
Academic references
Prof. Samuel Bowles
Director of the Behavioral Science Program, Santa Fe Institute
Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena
[email protected]
Prof Virginie Pérotin
Professor of Economics
Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
[email protected]
Tiziano Razzolini
Assistant Professor
Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Siena
[email protected]
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