Ana Miranda

GENERAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth: 29/03/1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Area of Specialization: Youth Studies, Economics of Education, Social
Policies.
Language Competency: Spanish, English, French (reading).
Address: Ayacucho 551, (1026) Ciudad Autónoma Buenos
Aires, Argentina
Phone: (+54 11) 5238-9370
Mobile: (+54 11) 941 77-4558
Fax: (+54-11) 4375-1373
E-mail: amiranda@flacso.org.ar

CURRENT POSITION
2008 Academic Coordinator of Youth Research Program, Latin American
School of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Argentina.
Researcher of the National Council for Scientific and Technological
Research of Argentina (CONICET).

EDUCATION
2007 Ph D. in Social Sciences, Latin American School of Social Sciences
(FLACSO Argentina) Advisor: Dr. Rene Bendit.
2002 MA in Social Policies, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Advisor: Daniel Filmus MA.
1999 Diploma of Specialization in Planning and Management of Social
Policies, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1996 B.A. in Sociology (Lic. in Sociology), University of Buenos Aires,
Argentina

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2008 Second award “Domingo Faustino Sarmiento”, National
Academy of Education, Argentina
2006 First award, Research Category, Octubre Foundation, Argentina
2003- Graduate Research Fellowship, Advanced Level, National
2005 Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET-
Argentina).
2002- Ph. D. Scholarship - Ministry of Education, Argentina.
2003
2000 First award “Domingo Faustino Sarmiento”, National Academy

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 of Education, Argentina
1998- Graduate Research Fellowship, Initial Level, National Council for
2003 Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET-Argentina).

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

2006- Director of the project “Education and Employment”. Latin
2009 American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO) Argentina.
Supervised research on relationships between school and
work, youth employment and transition from school to work.
2003- Doctoral Research: “Las transformaciones del mercado de
2006 trabajo frente a las reformas de la política económica y social
de los noventa: un estudio sobre la performance ocupacional
de los jóvenes en el Gran Buenos Aires” (Labor market
transitions within a framework of economic and social policy
reforms during the nineties: study on occupational
performance of youths in the Buenos Aires suburbs) at the
Latin American School of Social Sciences. Argentina.
2003 Research Fellow in the Youth Research Program Latin
American School of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Argentina.
Subject: Youth Employment and Youth Social Policies. Since
1996.
1999- Research Fellow in the Project “Misleading Trajectories?
2002 Evaluation of employment policies for young adults in Europe
regarding non-intended effects of social exclusion” (DJI
Deutsches Jugendinstut e.V, PROALAR-Argentina).
1999 – Part-time Researcher in the project “Mercados de Trabajo
2001 Urbanos en Argentina de los 90: crisis y metamorfosis”
(Urban Labor Markets in Argentina during the ‘90s: crisis and
metamorphosis). Directed by Agustín Salvia Ph.D, University
of Buenos Aires.
1998 Research Assistant of “Instituto del Conurbano”. Universidad
Nacional de Gral. Sarmiento - Argentina. Directed by Prof.
José Luis Coraggio
1997 Part-time Researcher in the Project “El ajuste en los hogares:
estrategias de sobrevivencia, conflicto y cambio en la
composición de los grupos domésticos” (Adjustments at
home: surviving strategies, conflict and changing of domestic
groups composition). IIGG. University of Buenos Aires.
Directed by Agustín Salvia Ph. D.

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 TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009 Academic Coordinator of Post-Graduate Program: Juventud,
Educación y Trabajo: Nuevas tendencias y desafíos. Modalidad
Virtual. (Youth, Education and Work: New trends and
challenges. Virtual modality) - Latin American School of Social
Sciences, Argentina)
http://www.flacso.org.ar/formacion_posgrados_contenidos.php?
IDPC=2&ID=214
2001- Assistant Professor, Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires,
2008 Argentina teaching “Economics of education” at the MA
Programs in Education.
2003- Assistant Professor. University of Buenos Aires, teaching
2008 “Economy for the Labor Market”.
1996- Assistant professor in Daniel Filmus MA. University of Buenos
2003 Aires, teaching “Sociology”.

PUBLICATIONS
A) Books
Bendit R., Hahn M. and Miranda A. editors (2008): Los jóvenes y el
futuro: procesos de inclusión social y patrones de vulnerabilidad
en un mundo globalizado. Prometeo Books. Buenos Aires. Argentina
Miranda A. (2007): La nueva condición joven: educación,
desigualdad, empleo. Octubre Foundation of Buildings Workers.
Buenos Aires. Argentina.
Filmus D., Kaplan C., Miranda A. and Moragues M. (2001): Cada vez
más necesaria, cada vez más insuficiente: la escuela media en
épocas de globalización. Santillana Publishers, Buenos Aires.
Argentina. (along with translation into Portuguese).

B) Articles and chapters in books and journals

Miranda A. (2009): “Los jóvenes, la educación secundaria y el empleo
sobre principios del siglo veintiuno”. Nueva Época Magazine on
Work, “Equidad en el trabajo: Género - Juventud, Year 4,
No. 6. Ministry of Labor, Employment and National Social Security.
Argentina.
Miranda A. and Otero A. (2009): “La posibilidad de un plan”. Tiramonti G.
and Montes N. (comp.): La escuela media en debate.
Manantial/FLACSO. Buenos Aires.

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Miranda A. (2008): "Job integration of young people in Argentina". Bendit
R. and Hahn-Bleibtreu M. (eds.): Youth transitions: processes
of social inclusion and patterns of vulnerability in a
globalised world. Barbara Budrich Publishers, Germany.
Miranda A., Otero A. and Corica A. (2007): “Cambio y situación social de
los jóvenes en Argentina”. Papeles de Población Magazine No.
52. Research and Advanced Population Studies Center.
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México.
Miranda A. (2006): “La condición joven”. Studies on Youth Magazine
"Acceso Directo". Rosario Borough. Argentina.
Miranda A., Otero A. and Corica A. (2006); "Educación y empleo: la
situación histórica de los jóvenes en Argentina, 1970-2001".
Question Magazine No. 11. School of Journalism, Universidad
Nacional de La Plata. Argentina.
Miranda A., Otero A. and Zelarayan J. (2005): “El empleo de los jóvenes
en la Argentina contemporánea”. Magazine on Social Security
Studies, from the International Association of Social Security.
Regional Office for the Americas, No. 96, Buenos Aires. Argentina
Miranda A. and Otero A. (2005): "Diversidad y desigualdad en los
caminos de los egresados de la escuela secundaria". Mexican
Magazine of Educational Research Vol.10, No. 25. Mexican
Council for Educational Research. Mexico FD. Mexico.
Miranda A. (2005): “No tan iguales, no tan distintos”. At Mercocities
Seminar: Integration and Involvement of Youth in the
Mercocities. Income distribution in Latin America.
AUTHORS: General Management of the Buenos Aires Government
Youth and Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
Filmus D., Miranda A. and Otero A. (2004): “La construcción de
trayectorias laborales entre los egresados de la escuela
secundaria”. Claudia Jacinto (coord.) ¿Educar para que trabajo?:
discutiendo rumbos en América Latina. La Crujia publishers-
redEtis. Buenos Aires. Argentina
Filmus D., Miranda A. and Zelarayan J. (2003): “La transición entre la
escuela secundaria y el empleo: un estudio sobre los recorridos de
los jóvenes en el Gran Buenos Aires”. Studies on Work
Magazine No. 26 Buenos Aires. Argentina.
Miranda A. and Salvia A. (2003): ¿Trabajar, estudiar o dejar pasar el
tiempo? Cambios en las condiciones de vida de los jóvenes en el
Gran Buenos Aires. Makiwski Sara and Villena Sergio (coord.): Los
jóvenes en América Latina: miradas desde Argentina, Chile
y Nicaragua. Young researchers series Working Document No. 1.
FLACSO - Mexico.
Balardini S. and Miranda A. (2003): “Juventud, transiciones y
permanencias”. Makiwski Sara and Villena Sergio (coord.): Los
jóvenes en América Latina: miradas desde Argentina, Chile
y Nicaragua. Jóvenes Investigadores (Young researchers) series
Working Document No. FLACSO - Mexico.

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Miranda A. and Otero, A. (2002): “Modelo para armar: los dilemas de los
jóvenes frente al trabajo en el Siglo XXI”. Proponer y Dialogar:
temas jóvenes para la reflexión y el debate. UNICEF-United
Nations for Children’s Fund. Buenos Aires. Argentina.
Miranda A. and Salvia A. (2001): “Transformaciones en las condiciones
de vida de los jóvenes en los noventa. Estimación de
Determinantes a través de regresiones”. Crisis y metamorfosis
del mercado de trabajo Part 2: Methodological contributions and
other proofs. Cuadernos del CEPED (CEPED notebooks) series, No.
5, School of Economics Sciences-University of Buenos Aires. Buenos
Aires.

C) Papers submitted to Conferences and Lectures

Miranda A.: “High school, inequality and gender in Argentina”, submitted
at the XXVIII International Congress of the Latin American
Studies Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. June, 2009.
Miranda A.: “Methodological aspects of study on school-work transition
among youths”, submitted at the I National Meeting on
Employment and Income, Argentine Association of Specialists on
Work Studies, Buenos Aires, Argentina. October, 2008.
Miranda A and Otero A: “Inequality among high school students:
research contributions for decision-making”, submitted at the
Students’ involvement and design of public policies seminar,
Legislature of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. June,
2008.
Miranda A., Otero A. and Corica A: “The invisible work among highschool
students: research contributions for decision-making”, submitted at
the International Meeting of Researchers and Public Forum
on Youth and Youth Policies in a Globalised World. Buenos
Aires. Argentina. March, 2008.
. Miranda A. and Corica A.: “Labor market transitions in Argentina over
the last 10 years: inequality and precariousness among youths”,
submitted at the III Latin American Population Congress, Latin
American Population Association, Córdoba, Argentina. April,
2008.
Miranda A., Otero A. and Corica A.: “Change and social situation of the
Argentine youths”, submitted at the VII Sociology Meetings.
School of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires. November,
2007.
Miranda A.: “Living conditions of youths and social policy in the
contemporary Argentina”, submitted at the 1st National Meeting
of Youth Researchers. School of Social Work of the Universidad
Nacional de La Plata. November, 2007.

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Miranda A., Otero A. and Corica A.: "Trends in education-employment
passage in the Buenos Aires suburbs, Neuquén and Salta”,
submitted at the 8th National Congress on Work Studies.
Argentine Association of Specialists on Work Studies. Buenos Aires.
August, 2007.
Miranda A. and Otero A.: "Approaches to youth condition from education-
employment passage: newly graduates from tertiary schools”,
submitted at the XXVI International Congress of Latin
American Studies Association (LASA), Montreal, Canada.
September, 2007.
Miranda A.: "Labor inclusion of young people in Argentina", submitted at
the International Youth - Research Meeting, Viena, Austria.
December, 2006.
Miranda A.: "Successive approaches and vulnerability in the education-
employment passage", submitted at the International Seminar
"Tertiary school at discussion", organized by OSDE Foundation
and FLACSO. Buenos Aires. June, 2006
Miranda A. Otero A. and Zelarayan J.: “Segmented labor inclusion and
education distribution among Argentine urban youths: analysis of
the last 20 years”, submitted at the Latin American Studies
Association XXVI International Congress. Puerto Rico. March,
2006.
Miranda A. Otero A. and Zelarayan J.: “Education distribution and
employment inequality: youths in the contemporary Argentina”,
submitted at the 7th Congress of the Association on Work Studies.
Buenos Aires. August, 2005.
Miranda A and Otero A.: “Building labor trajectories among youths
graduated from high school”, submitted at the Latin American
Studies Association XXV International Congress. Las Vegas,
Nevada. October, 2004.
Filmus D., A. Miranda and J. Zellarayan: “Transition between tertiary
school and work: study on post-high school trajectories of youths in
the Buenos Aires suburbs”. ALAST Congress, La Habana. September,
2003.
Miranda A.: “Notes regarding the school, employment and family
metamorphosis”. V Meetings of the Sociology Career, University of
Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires. November, 2002.
Filmus D., Miranda A. and J. Zellaran: “At the labor market: Does
knowledge occupy place?: tertiary school graduates and first year of
labor inclusion”. ASET Congress, Buenos Aires. August, 2001.
Miranda A. and Salvia A.: “No more than shadows: Transitions in the
youths’ living conditions during the nineties”. Commission on Youth
Research of CLACSO Meeting, San José de Costa Rica. December,
2000.
Balardini S. and Miranda A.: Youths talk about experience of government
school”. Youth Research Group of CLACSO Meeting, CLACSO,
Buenos Aires. December, 1999.

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Filmus D. and Miranda A.: "Latin America and Argentina during the
nineties: more education, less jobs = more inequality”. Commission
on Education and Society of CLACSO Meeting, Recife. November,
1999.
Balardini S. and Miranda A.: “Youth, transitions and permanences”,
submitted at the Meetings on the Poor, Poverty and Social
Exclusion, UBA/CEIL, Buenos Aires. August, 1999.
Miranda A. and Salvia A.: “North of Nothing: youths and exclusion during
the ‘90s”. III Meetings of the Sociology Career, University of Buenos
Aires. November, 1998.
Miranda A. and Salvia A.: “Exclusion of youths during the ‘90s: There are
more youths all over the country. Current problem which will echo in
the future”. First Congress Internship of the Poor and Poverty.
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. November, 1997.
Miranda A. and Salvia A.: “Exclusion of youths during the ‘90s”. ALAS
Congress. University of San Pablo. August, 1997.

INVOLVEMENT IN ORGANIZATION OF SEMINARS AND NETWORKS

- Design and Coordination of International Meeting of Researchers

and Public Forum on Youth and Youth Policies in a Globalised
World, Buenos Aires, from March 31st to April 2nd, 2008.
- Coordination of Latin American Youths Collective Project in
Argentina. Coordination of opening activity in June 2007 and fellows’
direction between December 2007 and November 2008.
- Design and Coordination of workshop “Research on Youth and
Youth Public Policies in Latin America: Balance and
Prospects” within the framework of the International Forum on the
Social Science-Policy Nexus – UNESCO. Buenos Aires, between
February 20th and 24th, 2006.
- Publishing coordination of Mayo Magazine – Magazine on Youth
Studies. Youth National Direction, Ministry of Social Development
and Environment, from May 2000 to July 2001.
- Facilitator of CLACSO Youth Working Team from 1998 until
August, 2003. Tasks: Coordination of the virtual working group.
- Involvement in the organization of the I Annual Meeting of the
Youth Working Team, CLACSO, Buenos Aires. December, 1999.
- Involvement in the organization of Seminar named “Prospects of
Technical-Professional Education” collectively organized by the INET,
World Bank, IIPE UNESCO and FLACSO, on July 7th snd 8th, 1999.
- Coordination of workshop on Employment Policies for Youths in the
Seminar named: “Prospects of Technical-Professional Education”

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 collectively organized by the INET, World Bank, IIPE UNESCO and
FLACSO, on July 8th, 1999.
- XVIII CLACSO General Meeting and Commemoration of 30 Years of its
Foundation: Balance and Prospect of the Social Sciences in
Latin America and Caribe. Narrator at Concurrent Workshop No. 12
Involvement and youth political spaces. November, 1997.