Guillermo Cruces (PhD in Economics, LSE) is the Deputy Director of the Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina (UNLP), and Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham. He is also a Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), and a Research Fellow at IZA. His research is focused on labour economics and distributional analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean, and on the