Visiting Senior Fellow
Department of International Development
Biography
Dr Sehnbruch is the director of the Public Policy Institute at the Universidad Diego Portales and an associate researcher and founding board member of the Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion with responsibility for the Centre’s International Relations.
Before this, she was a research fellow at the Department of Economics at the University of Chile and a lecturer and Senior Scholar at the University of California, at Berkeley.
Research Interests / Areas of Teaching
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Quality of employment
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Latin American labour markets
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Social policy and development policy
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Chilean politics
Selected Publications
Sehnbruch, K. (2006),The Chilean Labor Market: A Key to Understanding Latin American Labor Markets, London: Palgrave Macmillan
Sehnbruch, K and Siavelis P (Eds)Democratic Chile: The Politics and Policies of a Historic Coalition, 1990-2010, Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2014
She is currently working on a book on the quality of employment in developing countries, a subject on which she presented during a special seminar delivered at LSE in February 2015