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Jacqueline Mazza
Senior Adjunct Professor
About
Dr. Jacqueline Mazza is Senior Adjunct Professor of International Development and Latin American Studies at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) teaching at both the Washington, DC and Bologna, Italy campuses. She is a recognized international expert in labor market policies and programs and serves as a consultant to the World Bank, International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Inter-American Development Bank. She is the former Principal Labor Markets Specialist at the Interamerican Development Bank in Washington, DC with particular expertise in labor employment services, migration and labor training programs. Her most recent publications include: Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Economies (Palgrave-MacMillan Press), “Venezuelan Migrants under COVID-19: Managing South America’s Pandemic amid a Migration Crisis” (Wilson Center, December 2020). She has conducted analyzes of public employment services around the globe, including Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Vietnam, Uganda, and countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
- “Peru and Migration From Venezuela: From Early Adjustment to Policy Misalignment,” The Palgrave Handbook of South-South Migration and Inequality.
- “Learning from Crises: Perspectives from Europe’s Ukrainian and South America’s Venezuelan Mass Migration Crisis,” SAIS Europe Journal of Global Affairs, Summer 2022.
- “Latin America’s Vaccine Gamble with Venezuelan Migrants,” with Nicolas Forrero-Villareal, Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, DC, forthcoming April 2021.
- Don’t Disturb the Neighbors: the United States and Democracy in Mexico 1980-1995. Routledge Press, NY, 2001.
- “A Global History of Employment Services,” Report for the International Labour Organization, Geneva, October 2021.
- “Venezuelan Migrants under COVID-19: Managing South America’s Pandemic Amidst a Migration Crisis,” Latin American Program, Working Paper, Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington, DC, December 2020.
- “U.S.-Mexican Border and Mexican Migration to the United States: a 21rst Century Review,” SAIS Review of International Affairs Vol. 37, No. 2, Summer-Fall 2017, pp 33-47.
- “Reforming Employment Services: Three Big Steps to Change,” World Bank, Jobs and Development Blog, November 29, 2017.
- “Public-Private Partnerships: Reshaping National and Global Intermediation Markets” Chapter 8 in Miguel Peromingo editor, Public Employment Services in the Global Economy WCC Smart, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2017.
- Labor Intermediation Services in Developing Countries: Adapting Employment Services in a Global Age Palgrave/MacMillan Press, New York, 2017.
- “Migration in a Global Age: Perspectives from China, India and the Americas” in Riordan Roett and Guadalupe Paz, editors. Latin America and the Asian Giants: Evolving Ties with China and India. Brookings Institution Press, 2016.
- Chinese Migration to Latin America: New Trends and Dynamics. Inter-American Dialogue, Washington, DC, September 2016.
- “Connecting Workers to Jobs: Innovations in Labor Intermediation Services in Latin America
and Caribbean.” Latin American Policy Vol. 4, No. 2, August 2013, pgs. 306-321. - Fast-Tracking Jobs: Advances and Next Steps in Labor Intermediation Services in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC. December 2011.
- Crossing Borders for Work: New Trends and Policies in Labor Migration with Eleanor Sohnen. Inter-American Development Bank, Technical Note Series, Washington, DC. June 2011.
- Social and Labor Market Policies for Tumultuous Times: Confronting the Global Crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean. Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, April 2009 with Suzanne Dureya and Ferdinando Regalia.
- “The Other Side of the Fence: Intraregional Migration in the Americas” with Nora Sohnen. Migration Source. Migration Policy Institute, Washington, DC, February 2010.
- Core Labor Standards and Foreign Direct Investment: Does Lax Enforcement Attract Investors? In Foreign Investment, Harrison G. Blaine, editor. Nova Science Publisher, New York, 2009, with Christian Daude and Andrew Morrison.
- “Addressing Exclusion: Social Policy Perspectives from Latin America and the Caribbean, ” in Inclusive States: Social Policy and Structural Inequalities. Anis Dani and Arjan de Haan, editors. World Bank, Washington, DC, 2008, with Mayra Buvinic.
- The Outsiders: The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean. Research Department, Inter-American Development Bank, 2008, co-author in four person team.
- Social Inclusion and Economic Development in Latin America. Johns Hopkins University Press, MD, 2004, co-editor with Mayra Buvinic.
- “Labor Intermediation Services: Lessons For Latin America and the Caribbean from International Experience,” CEPAL Review Vol. 80, August 2003, United Nations ECLA.
- Unemployment Insurance: Case Studies and Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean. Research Department, Working Paper Series 411, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department, Washington, DC, October 1999.
- Human Resources Adjustment in Latin America: A Preliminary Program for the Human Resources Facility of the Multilateral Investment Fund. Economic and Social Development Department, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, 1993.
- “Trade in Services and Developing Countries”. Journal of World Trade Law Vol. 29, No. 3 May-June 1986, 253-273 with Jeffrey J. Schott.