Olga Cantó Sánchez

Welcome to my personal Web page. I am an associate professor of Economics at the Universidade de Vigo (Spain). I am integrated in the Department of Applied Economics within the Income Distribution Research Unit (IDRU) and the EQUALITAS research group. My research interests are focused on the statics and dynamics of the income distribution, poverty, wage inequality gender discrimination in the labour market and social policy evaluation using microsimulation techniques within EUROMOD.

Postal Address: Fac. CC. Economicas e Empresariais , Campus Lagoas-Marcosende, 36310 Vigo (Pontevedra), España. Tel: +34 986 813530, Fax: +34 986 812401

Temporarily on leave at: Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, Cardenal Herrera Oria, 378. 28035 Madrid.

E-mail: ocanto@uvigo.es

Ph.D. in Economics, European University Institute, Florence, 1998.

Dissertation: "The dynamics of poverty in Spain: the permanent and transitory poor", supervisor: John Micklewright.

B.S. in Economics, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, 1993.