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Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch

Professor Kirsten Sehnbruch

Distinguished Policy Fellow

International Inequalities Institute

Email
K.Sehnbruch@lse.ac.uk
Room No
CBG 4.03
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Languages
English, French, German, Spanish
Key Expertise
Multidimensional Indicators, Social and Labour Policies, Latin America

About me

Kirsten Sehnbruch is a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the Universidad de Chile, Director of the Institute for Public Policy at the Universidad Diego Portales (Chile), and a Lecturer at the University of California, at Berkeley.

During 2018, Kirsten was awarded a British Academy Global Professorship to study the conceptualization and the measurement of the quality of employment in developing countries from the perspective of the capability approach. From a theoretical perspective, she examines employment as a missing dimension of the capability approach; empirically, she has established a summary indicator of job quality for 13 Latin American countries, which will be extended to other regions of the Global South going forwards. Learn more about Kirsten's . Her work informs social, labour and development policy more broadly as it allows for resources to be targeted at the most vulnerable workers in a labour market. 

Kirsten’s articles have been published by The Cambridge Journal of Economics, Development and Change, Latin American Perspectives and the International Labour Review. She is the author of the book The Chilean Labor Market: A Key to Understanding Latin American Labor Markets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), and with Peter Siavelis co-editor of  (Lynne Rienner, 2014). She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in Social and Political Sciences in 2004.

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Publications

Sehnbruch, K., Carranza, R. and Contreras, D. (2022) Designing Unemployment Insurance Systems in Developing Countries: Moral Hazard vs Liquidity Constraints in Chile. Forthcoming in Journal of Development Studies.

Sehnbruch, K., Siavelis, P., Barozet, E. and Ulloa, V. (2022) Public Appointments as Informal Institutions: Lessons from the Cuoteo in Chile, 1990-2017. Forthcoming in Revista Chilena de Ciencias Políticas.

Apablaza, M., Sehnbruch, K., González, P. and Mendez Pineda, R. (2022) Regional inequality in multidimensional quality of employment (QoE): insights from Chile, 1996-2017. Forthcoming in Regional Studies.

Sehnbruch, K. and Donoso, S. (2020) Global Labour Journal, 11 (1). (In Press)

Sehnbruch, K., Apablaza, M., Gonzalez, P., Mendez, R. and Arriagada, V. (2020) World Development, 127. ISSN 0305-750X 

Madero-Cabib, I., Biehl, A., Sehnbruch, K., Calvo, E., & Bertranou, F. (2019). , 41(10), 961–987. https://doi.org/10.1177/0164027519874687.

Piasna, A., Burchell, B., & Sehnbruch, K. (2019). . Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 25(2), 165–180. https://doi.org/10.1177/1024258919832213 

Sehnbruch, K., Carranza, R. & Prieto, J. (2018). . Development and Change, 50: 948-975. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12457

Sehnbruch, K., Burchell, B., Agloni, N., & Piasna, A. (2015). . Development and Change, 46(2), 197–224. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12149

Ramos, J., Sehnbruch, K., & Weller, J. (2015). . International Labour Review, 154(2), 171–194. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1564-913X.2015.00238.x

Ruiz-Tagle, J., & Sehnbruch, K. (2015). . International Labour Review, 154(2), 227–252. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1564-913X.2015.00240.x

Ocampo, J. A., & Sehnbruch, K. (2015). . International Labour Review, 154(2), 165–170. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1564-913X.2015.00237.x

Burchell, B., Sehnbruch, K., Piasna, A. & Agloni, N. (2014). . Cambridge Journal of Economics, 38(2), 459-477. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bet067

Sehnbruch, K. (2006). International Social Security Review, 59(1), 27–48. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-246X.2006.00232.x

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