Roberto Véras de Oliveira Author

Gerry Rodgers has a D.Phil. in Economic Development from the University of Sussex (1972) and an M.A. (Cantab) in Economics and Mathematics. He worked with the International Labour Organization in a variety of research and management positions, including as Director of the International Institute for Labour Studies. He has mainly worked on poverty, inequality and employment, especially in India and in Latin America, and has published widely on these issues. Presently a collaborator of LAEPT at the Federal University of Paraíba in João Pessoa, he is also Visiting Professor at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi.

Roberto Véras de Oliveira has a doctorate in Sociology from the University of São Paulo (2002), and undertook post-doctoral work in 2015-2016 at the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (Los Angeles). He is presently Full Professor at the Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa. His research is concerned with the Sociology of Labour, Political Sociology and Economic Sociology. He is a Scholar of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development and a member of its Social Sciences Advisory Committee, and member of the Coordinating Group of the Network for Studies and Interdisciplinary Monitoring of the Labour Reform.

Janine Rodgers has a Degree in Economics from Paris (1966), an M.A. in Development Economics from the University of Sussex (1969) and a Certificate in Political Science from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (1982). She worked for the International Labour Organization on labour market inequalities, on gender issues and on crises. She has been Deputy Executive Secretary of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). She is currently a collaborator of LAEPT at the Federal University of Paraíba, João Pessoa, and a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi.