Isaure Delaporte

Isaure Delaporte joined the Research Department of the International Labour Organization in November 2023. Previously, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of St Andrews after obtaining her PhD in Economics from the University of Kent in the UK.

Her research focuses on studying labour market dynamics and general trends in low- and middle-income countries. She is particularly interested in examining how major trends including new technologies, demographic changes and emerging patterns in development and globalization affect the world of work. Her research aims to study how these transformations affect the skills acquisition among workers and the demand for skills/tasks among enterprises, and how skills/tasks are related to transitions in the labour market. In this respect, she has studied the implications of technical change in employment transitions and its association with informality. She has also studied the distributional implications of shocks in labour markets and how they diffuse among workers based on their individual characteristics. Lastly, she also studies the effectiveness of active labour market policies and the characteristics that are needed for policies to improve labour market and social outcomes.