Valeria Esquivel

Valeria Esquivel joined UNRISD in August 2014 as Research Coordinator on Gender and Development. In her role, Valeria was responsible for conceptualizing, developing and managing research on gender-related issues of concern for the UN system and other stakeholders within the framework of the UNRISD Research Agenda.

Prior to joining UNRISD, Valeria was Associate Professor of Economics at the Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, Argentina, and Researcher for CONICET, the Argentine National Research Council. In the past, she collaborated with UNRISD for the project The Political and Social Economy of Care (2006-2009) as part of the Argentinian research team.

An internationally recognized feminist economist, Valeria’s academic work cuts across the fields of labour markets and social policy, notably on issues of unpaid work, time-use and care. She has also done work on gender-aware macro-economics, particularly in Latin America. Her approach has always been multidisciplinary, and she is equally familiar with quantitative and qualitative research tools. Much of her work emphasizes the importance of framing and of knowledge production from the South.

After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Economics at the University of Buenos Aires, Valeria continued her postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom, obtaining her Master’s degree and PhD in Economics from the University of London.

Selected Publications:

• Innovations in Care: New Concepts, New Actors, New Policies (with Andrea Kaufmann). Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2017.
• “Avances, retrocesos y desafíos pendientes: A 20 años de la Plataforma de Acción de Beijing” (with Andrea Kaufmann), Studia Politicae, No. 8, Otoño 2016.
• “La Economía Feminista en América Latina”, Nueva Sociedad 265, Septiembre-Octubre 2016.
• "Introduction: Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals" Gender & Development, Vol. 24, Issue 1, 4 March 2016
• "Power and the Sustainable Development Goals: a feminist analysis" Gender & Development, Vol. 24, Issue 1, 4 March 2016
• "O cuidado: de conceito analítico a agenda política", Nueva Sociedad especial em português, October 2015
• "La Economía Feminista desde América Latina: ¿Una vía para enriquecer los debates de la Economía Social y Solidaria?" in Une économie solidaire peut-elle être féministe ? Homo oeconomicus, mulier solidaria, edited by Christine Verschuur, Isabelle Guérin and Isabelle Hillenkamp. Genre et développement – Rencontres, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2015.
• "El cuidado: de concepto analítico a agenda política" Nueva Sociedad, No. 256, Marzo-Abril 2015.
• "What is a Transformative Approach to Care, and Why Do We Need It?" Gender & Development, Vol. 22, No. 3, October 2014.
• “El servicio doméstico y sus desafíos para la protección social” (con Francisca Pereyra), en Claudia Danani y Susana Hintze (editoras), Protecciones y desprotecciones II: Problemas y debates de la seguridad social en La Argentina, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, 2014
• "La Pobreza de Ingreso y Tiempo en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Un ejercicio de medición de la pobreza para el diseño de políticas públicas" (Time and Income Poverty in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An exercise in poverty measurement), United Nations Development Program, (UNDP), Panamá: June 2014. ISBN: 978-9962-688-27-3.
• “Addressing the Global Economic Crisis in Mexico, Ecuador and Argentina: Implications for Gender Equality” (with Corina Rodríguez Enríquez) in Rania Antonopoulos (editor), Gender Perspectives and Gender Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis, New York: Routledge. December 2013. ISBN 978-0-415-65817-1.
• “Measuring Unpaid Care Work with Public Policies in Mind” prepared for the Expert Group Meeting on “Structural and policy constraints in achieving the MDGs for women and girls”, UNWOMEN and ECLAC, Mexico City, Mexico, 21-24 October 2013.
• "Care in households and communities: Background paper on conceptual issues", Oxfam GB, Oxford. February 2013. ISBN 978-1-78077-473-2.
• "A 'economia do cuidado': Um percurso conceitual." In Orçamentos Sensíveis A Gênero: Conceitos E Experiências, edited by Márcia Larangeira Jácome and Shirley Villela. UN Women, Brasilia.
• Las lógicas del cuidado infantil. Entre las familias, el estado y el mercado (edited with Elizabeth Jelin and Eleonor Faur), IDES/UNFPA/UNICEF, Buenos Aires, June 2012 (Childcare and Gender. Between the Family, the State, and the Market). ISBN 978-87-21625-1-1.
• "La economía feminista desde América Latina: una hoja de ruta sobre los debates actuales en la región", Valeria Esquivel (editor), GEM-LAC/ ONU-MUJERES, Santo Domingo, March 2012. (Feminist Economics from Latin America: Current Debates, Valeria Esquivel, Editor) ISBN: 978-1-936291-99-1.
• “Beyond Maternalism? The Political and Social Organization of Childcare in Argentina” (with Eleonor Faur), in Shahra Razavi and Silke Staab (eds.), Global Variations in the Political and Social Economy of Care: Worlds Apart, UNRISD/Routledge Series, New York, April 2012. ISBN 978-0-415-52250-2.
• “Sixteen Years after Beijing: What Are the New Policy Agendas for Time-Use Data Collection?”, Feminist Economics, Special Issue on Unpaid Work, Time Use, Poverty and Public Policy (II), Vol. 17, No. 3, October 2011. ISSN 1354-5701.
• "The Care Economy in Latin America: Putting care at the centre of the agenda/ La Economía del Cuidado en América Latina: poniendo a los cuidados en el centro de la agenda, “Undoing knots, innovating for change” Series/Serie “Atando Cabos; deshaciendo nudos”, UNDP/PNUD, Regional Center for Latin America/Centro Regional de América Latina y el Caribe, Panamá. October 2011. ISBN: 978-9962-663-15-7.
• “Care Workers in Argentina: At the crossroads of labour markets institutions and care services”, International Labor Review, Special issue: The global political and social economy of paid care work, Volume 149, No.4, December 2010, p. 477-493. ISSN 0020-7780.
• “The Informal Economy in Greater Buenos Aires: A Statistical Profile”, Urban Policies Research Report, No. 8, December 2010. WIEGO, Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing, Manchester.
• “Time Pieces. Latin American Time Use News”, Electronic International Journal of Time Use Research, Volume 7, No. 1, p. 73-74, August 2010. ISSN 1860-9937.
• Dossier “Organización social del cuidado” (editor, with Eleonor Faur and Elizabeth Jelin), Prácticas de Oficio, Investigación y reflexión en Ciencias Sociales, n° 6, IDES, Buenos Aires. August 2010. ISSN 1851-6076.
• “Unpaid care work in the City of Buenos Aires”, in Debbie Budlender (ed.), Time Use Studies and Unpaid Care Work, UNRISD/Routledge Series, New York. 2010. ISBN 978-0-415-88224-8.
• "Lessons from the Buenos Aires Time Use Survey: A Methodological Assessment", In Rania Antonopoulos and Indira Hirway (eds.), Unpaid Work and the Economy: Gender, Time-Use and Poverty in Developing Countries, Palgrave Mcmillan, New York. December 2009. ISBN 978-02-302-1730-0.

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