Laura Moisá-Elicabide
Education
2011 to 2017
PhD in Economic Development
IE/CESIT, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
"Trajetórias diferenciadas e opções políticas: impactos no mundo do trabalho na Colômbia e no Brasil 2002-2012". (Distinctive trajectories and political options: impacts on the workplace in Colombia and Brazil 2002-2012), Advisor: Jose Dari Krein.
2002 to 2007
Masters in Economic Sciences
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.
Thesis: Natural Rate of Unemployment: A Critical Analysis.
1996 to 2001
Economist (BS in Economics)
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá.
Teaching Expertise
August 2008 to February 2025
Associate Professor
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín campus.
Teaching specialties: macroeconomics, economic development rural development labor economics, care professions and economics
Research areas: macroeconomics, economic development, labor studies, care economy.
February to June 2008
Adjunct Professor
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
School of Economics, College of Economic Sciences
Subjects: Fundamentals of Economics, Agrarian Structure and Problematics
February to June 2008
Adjunct Professor
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Subject: Macroeconomics
February to June 2008
Adjunct Professor
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
Subject: Macroeconomics
February to June 2008
Adjunct Professor
Universidad Central
Subject: Economics II, Social and Human Capital Formation
September to December 2007
Adjunct Professor
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
School of Economics, College of Economic Sciences
Subject: Fundamentals of Economics
February to June 2007
Adjunct Professor
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
School of Economics, College of Economic Sciences
Subject: Fundamentals of Economics
May to June 2007
Teaching Assistant
Participated with, evaluated and monitored water, aqueduct and sewerage companies in the Escuela Superior de Administración Pública.
Research
2023-Present
Characterization of informality in Latin America, with special emphasis on delivery through apps
Role: Project Coordinator, teaching coursework project
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín campus
2024–Present
PP-Inter-administrative contract to strengthen women's participation and political influence and to develop actions to prevent gender-based violence within the framework of the PLPP program.
Role: Project Coordinator
External funding; Women's Secretariat of the District of Medellín
2023-Present
Regional development multidimensional analysis of the San Andrés case
Role: Project Coordinator
PhD thesis: Study of the regional and tourism development of the island of San Andrés, Colombia: a multidimensional approach.
2021-2022
Framework experience for a political education school for women in the city of Medellín
Role: research support
Social impact project; Internal financing Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2022-2024
Impact of FDI on climate change and employment in Colombia, analysis for a sustainable development proposal
Role: Project Director
2019-2022
Latwork Project: Developing Research and Innovation Capacities of Latin-American HEI for the Analysis of the Informal Labor Market
Broad objective: develop research structures and innovative methodologies to meet the scientific knowledge creation needs in the informal work and informal economy field.
http://www.latwork-project.eu/proyecto-latwork
Role: Researcher
2020-2022
Framework experience for a political education school for women in the city of Medellín
Role: academic and educational support
2020-2022
Informality, precariousness, and social security in Colombia, analysis, and proposals
Role: Director and Principal Investigator
2020
Inter-administrative contract to implement the Situated Training line, within the framework of the public policy for teacher training – Mova - mediated by virtuality
Role: Coordinator
2019
General organization: Inter-administrative contract for the development of training, capacity building, awareness raising and social management.
School of Government and Gender Equality of the Women's Secretariat of the Municipality of Medellín
2014-2015
Cesit Project/National Secretariat for Women - Brazil
Project name: “Political strengthening of women to guarantee and expand rights, promote equality in the world of work and economic autonomy”
Role: Research Coordinator.
CESIT/Institute of Economics of the State University of Campinas National Secretariat for Women of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil
2014
CLACSO Working Group
Subject: sociopolitical heterogeneities, productive models and social actors
2013-2017
Researcher in the project funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation –FAPESP– Contradictions of Work in Brazil Today: Formalization, precariousness, outsourcing and regulation.
2009
Role: Main Investigator
Project: The concept of technological unemployment in economic theory, a comparative analysis of the Classics, Keynes and the Neoclassics.
Supported by: DIME-UN
2009
Tutor: Colombian female labor migration under the labor mobility policies of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN). Two particular cases: Ecuador and Venezuela (1998-2008).
Supported by. DIME-UN
2009
Research assistant to Professor Eduardo Umaña Luna in his multiple publications
August 8-10, 2007
International Seminar on Economics, Politics and Conflict
Organizer
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Publications
MOISA ELICABIDE, L. C.; MORENO REYES, N. A.; ALVAREZ OSORIO, S. (2024). Precarización laboral de la innovación, el caso de Rappi en Colombia. Sociological Studies of El Colegio de México, 42, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.24201/es.2024v42.e2707
BOLIVAR, MC, MOISA, L. C. and MORENO, N. A. (2024). Informalidad laboral femenina en Colombia: composición y determinantes socioeconómicos. Cuadernos de Economía (Santafé de Bogotá), 43(91), 231-263.
KREIN, MOISA and Others. (2023) Informalidad laboral: estructura económica, modelos de desarrollo y tendencias recientes. In, “Informalidad en América Latina ¿Un debate actual?”. Editors: Veras, Valera and Calderón. Latwork and University of Alicante. At: http://rua.ua.es/dspace/ handle/10045/134519.
SILVERMAN, J., & MOISÁ ELICABIDE, L. (2023). Cambios y continuidades en las relaciones laborales en tiempos de retroceso. Journal of Social Sciences, 36 (52), 13-37. https://doi.org/10.26489/rvs.v36i52.1
MOISA, L. CASTIBLANCO, S. O emprego informal na América do Sul: uma análise com perspectiva de género. Facetas do trabalho no Brasil contemporâneo. In: Brazil ISBN: 978-9790-9790 65-251-0932-9 ed: CRV Publisher, pp., 2211 - 238 1,2021.
MOISA; TANGARIFE. Colombia reformas con sesgo antilaboral derechos laborales en vía de extinción. Journal of Law on Labor and Human Development. Campinas, v. 2, n. 1, p. 147-
172, 2019.
MOISA, L.; SILVERMAN, J.; PIÑON, M. Labor and Development in Twenty first Century Latin America, Two Political Options. Latin American Perspectives. Issue 229, Volume 46, Number 6, November 2019. P. 25-41.
COLOMBI, A.; KALLABIS, R; MOISA, L. O Brasil na contramão: a redução da desigualdade durante a crise mundial. Economic Essays, Number 43. P. 29-44, 2013.
MOISA, L. Economic policies and labor in Brazil: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva´s Government, 2003-2010" Sustainable growth, development and labor, progressive responses at local, national and global level . In: Brazil ISBN: 978-85-99944-33-2 ed: Editora Curt Nimuendajú , - p.277, 2012.
MOISA, L.; HERNANDEZ, A. El desarrollo rural de Medellín (Colombia) desde la perspectiva del desarrollo endógeno. Agronomía Colombiana, v. 28, p. 515-523, 2011.
HERNANDEZ, A.; MOISA, L. Participation and innovation, the keys to rural development: The case of rural Medellín. Agronomía Colombiana, v. 29, p. 293-300, 2010
HERNÁNDEZ, A.; MOISA et al, (Org.). Atlas Veredal of Medellín. Medellín: Publicaciones Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2010. v. 1. 50p.
Editor
2024
Guest Joint Editor
Journal Vol. 34, Number 65 (2024): Work, informality and precariousness in Latin America
2017-2020
Director
Latin American Journal of Labor Studies
2018-2019
Guest Editor
Relet Number 38
Gender and the economy of care. Tribute to Luz Gabriela Arango,
August 8-10, 2007
Assistant Coordinator
Audiovisual Memory
International Seminar on Economics, Politics and Conflict Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Experience
2023
Consultant Ad-Honorem
Labor Observatory of the Americas, Trade Union Central of the Americas
Research on public care policies in Colombia, Honduras and the Dominican Republic, within the framework of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) project
2022
Coordinator
Consultant for the development if the second implementation phase of the Municipal Care System for the Women's Secretariat of the Municipality of Medellín and Faculty of Human and Economic Sciences.
September 2021 to March 2022
Coordinator
Consultant for the development of the second implementation phase of the Municipal Care System for the Women's Secretariat of the Municipality of Medellín and College of Human and Economic Sciences.
2022
Consultant Ad-Honorem
Labor Observatory of the Americas, Trade Union Central of the Americas
Report on the socio-labor situation and perspectives of working youth in the Americas.
August to December 2020
Director of the School for Governance and Gender Equality Project
Inter-administrative Contract, Municipality of Medellín – Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
2020
Project Director
Inter-administrative contract
Implemented the training program framework of the public policy teacher training – Mova, Municipality of Medellín-Secretary of Education-Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
2020
Consultant Ad-Honorem
Labor Observatory of the Americas, Trade Union Central of the Americas
Special report: Working conditions and rights of working women in four Andean countries in the face of COVID-19: Colombia-Peru-Ecuador-Bolivia.
June to December 2019
Director of the School of Government and Gender Equity
Extension Project Inter-administrative contract between the Secretariat for Women-Municipality of Medellín and the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
2010-2011
Director of Outreach Project
Detailed multidimensional characterization of the districts of Medellín
Preformed multidimensional analysis (economic, environmental, socio-cultural and political-
institutional) to characterize the rural areas of the districts of Medellín in order to develop the guidelines for the Sustainable Rural Development Plan.
June 2005 to June 2008
School of Economics Assistant
College of Economic Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Prepared academic programming for the program and coordination with the Master's in Economic Sciences. Defined indicators for the accreditation process and for the School of Economics. Experience in human resource management and coordination of meetings with professors for academic work.
2003
Radio Program Assistant
Contracted interviewees, organized programming and participated during recording as a speaker. Under Professor Carlos Martinez Becerra
Economic Debates Radio, Universidad Nacional
Coursework
- ECLAC Summer Course. 2013. Santiago de Chile
- Course-workshop on Formulating Development Plans. February 4, 2004. Medellín, National Planning Council
- Extension Course in Comprehensive Social Management . August 13-31, 2007. Universidad Nacional de Colombia; Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences
Reviewer
- Reviewing pair: Essays on Economics Universidad Nacional de Colombia Magazine, Medellín
- Reviewing pair: Virajes Magazine University of Caldas
- Review: Book of essays: “Globalization and development of Tolima two decades after Armero” University of Tolima
Speaker at International Events
April 2023. Pennsylvania, USA
9th Annual Symposium of the Center for Global Workers Rights, Penn State University
Speaker: Labor reforms in Colombia and Care and Care Systems in Colombia.
March 2023
VI Macroeconomics Network
Speaker: Rethinking foreign direct investment for formal employment in Colombia
May 2018. Barcelona, Spain
2018 Congress of the Latin American Studies Association
Speaker: Free trade agreements and the peace process in Colombia: perspectives on the labor agenda.
April 2017. Lima, Peru
XXXV Congress of the Latin American Studies Association Catholic University of Lima
Speaker: Colombia, anti-labor policy and the challenges of peace
May 2014. Berlin, Germany
9th Global Labor University Conference: “Inequality within and among Nations: Causes, Effects, and Responses”
Presentation: Different Policies, Different Paths: Colombia and Brazil, 2000-2010
April 2014. Montevideo, Uruguay
CLACSO Seminar: “The implications of public policies and labor regulations on work in Latin America 2008-2013”
Presentation: Approaches to the comparative study of labor policies in Colombia and Brazil.
October 2013. Curitiba, Brazil
XIII National Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Labor Studies (ABET).
Presentation: Labor Regulation and its effects on the World of Work - Colombia and Brazil 2000-2010
July 2013. São Paulo, Brazil
VII Latin American Congress on Labor Studies: Work in the 21st Century. Changes, Impacts and Perspectives.
Presentation: Transformations in Labor Relations in Colombia and Brazil: Between Flexibility and Regulation. 2000-2010.
2012. MIT, Boston-USA
24th Annual Meeting of the Society for Advancement of Socioeconomics.
Presentation: Labor Policies and Social Impact in Brazil, Government of Luiz Inácio da Silva. 2003-2010.
2012. Campinas, Brazil
VIII. Global Labor University (GLU) Conference Sustainable growth, development and labor.
Presentation: Economic policies and the world of work in Brazil.
2012. Buenos Aires, Argentina
VI International Congress on Political Economy and Human Rights.
Presentation: Because the market is not enough: fighting for social policies and creating a solidarity economy.
2012. Bogotá, Colombia
I International Colloquium on Rural Development with a territorial focus.
Presentation: Rurality in Medellín in the perspectives of development.
2010. Buenos Aires, Argentina
II International Congress and XI Symposium on Latin America and the Caribbean. The Bicentennials in the Regional and Global Situation. Realities and Controversies from Historical, Economic and Sociopolitical Analysis.
Presentation: Technological unemployment: a historical factor of social exclusion and marginalization.
2008. Buenos Aires, Argentina
VIII Symposium and I International Congress on Integration Processes in the Regional and Global Environment. A View from the Perspective of the Three Continents (America, Asia and Europe). Historical and Current Analysis.
Presentation: Regional integration as a basis for solving unemployment in Latin America
Other events
1998. XII National Congress of Economics Students. Santa Marta
2004. VIII Congress on Participatory Planning. Civil Society Review of the Community State. Medellín, February 4-7
Undergraduate Thesis Advisor
2023. Kevin Bravo - Doctoral thesis: Study of the regional and tourism development of the island of San Andrés, Colombia: a multidimensional approach.
2019-2021 Maria Cristina Bolivar Restrepo - Female labor informality in Colombia: an analysis of its composition and socioeconomic determinants (2017–2019) Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín campus.
2019-2022. Marcela Buitrago Monsalve - Analysis of the mechanisms for generating and distributing value in teleworking and platform work in Colombia at the beginning of the 21st century.
2010. Andrea Guzman - Comprehensive strategic planning, Government of Antioquia. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín campus.
2010. Edwin Echeverri - The Business Cycle and its Effect on Wages and Hiring in Haceb Industries. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín campus.
2009. Gustavo Adolfo Correa López - Regional indicator systems. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín campus.
2009. María Adelaida Gaviria Rivera - Information systems and land registry. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín campus.
