Santiago Poy

Santiago Poy has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. He is a Doctoral Fellow of CONICET (Scientific and Technical Research National Council of Argentina) at the Observatorio de la Deuda Social Argentina (Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina). He also has several years of experience as a teacher at University of Buenos Aires, in subjects including research methodology and he is specialized in quantitative data analysis. His research interests include labor market segmentation, socio-economic inequality, social policies (specifically, their impact on economic welfare) and household’s social reproduction patterns. Santiago has participated in several research projects, published articles in specialized magazines and presented papers for scientific congresses in Argentina and across Latin America. Santiago is currently a PhD candidate in Social Sciences at University of Buenos Aires. His thesis focuses on how trends in the labor market such as segmentation and structural heterogeneity, alongside several transformations in social policies, molded household’s economic welfare during two different periods in Argentina, namely, the ‘structural adjustment’ phase (1992-2001) and the ‘heterodox’ one (2002-2014). The main objective of the thesis is to show how household’s social reproduction pattern changed during that period and to describe which are the key factors that explain such a process, taking into account the overall structure of opportunities but also micro-social behaviors of the families.