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Dr. Jairo Isaza-Castro

Associate Professor & Director of Center for Global Workplace Equity and Inclusion, School of Business
Dr. Jairo Isaza-Castro
Buckman Hall 305
(901) 321-3314

Biography

Dr. Jairo Isaza-Castro is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Global Workplace Equity & Inclusion at the School of Business, CBU. Before joining CBU, Dr. Isaza-Castro worked for 19 years at Universidad de La Salle in Bogotá where was Director of Postgraduate Programs in Development Studies. Dr. Isaza-Castro has an extensive consultancy career as a consultant for international development organizations such as ILO and IADB, and as a member of executive boards in the private sector of Colombia. He was President of the Colombian Association of Labor Studies between 2017 and 2021.

Education

  • University of Sussex (United Kingdom), PhD
  • International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University of Rotterdam, MA
  • Universidad Católica de Colombia, BSc

Courses Taught

  • CMBA 602: Managerial Economics

    This course provides the principles and tools needed to explore the economic dimension of business decision making.

  • STAT 223: Business Statistics

    A course in statistical methods and application in the field of business and economics.

  • HMBA 603: Health Care Managerial Economics

    This course utilizes the tools of economic thinking and economic analysis to examine the current state of health and healthcare in both the United States and international economies.

  • ECON 214: Microeconomics (in Spanish)

    Attention is focused on the micro concept of economic analysis, and primary attention given to the theory of the firm and partial equilibrium problems arising within any enterprise economy.

Publications and Research Focus

  • Areas of research:
    – Labor economics
    – Discrimination ad occupational segregation of women and ethnic minorities
    – Economic and social development

    Recent publications:

    Articles and book chapters (selected)

    CASTIBLANCO, S.; ISAZA-CASTRO, J., & BARBOSA, M. Human development and gender equality. A data panel analysis from the SDG5 perspective. Revista Estudios Feministas (forthcoming), 2022.

    JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO, D.M. Carmona, I.C. Bedoya Calvo, G.Cómbita Mora, D.J. Mesa Fernández, M.Nova Laverde, A.Sarmiento Narváez, y A.F. Zapata Ramírez. Reconstrucción económica y social: retos para la sociedad colombiana en tiempos poscovid. Revista de la Universidad de La Salle, (86), 179-198. https://doi.org/10.19052/ruls.vol1.iss86.13, 2021.

    JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO & BARRY REILLY: Occupational Segregation by Gender –An Empirical Analysis for Urban Colombia (1986-2004). Equidad y Desarrollo No.35, 9-41. https://doi.org/10.19052/eq.vol1.iss35.1, 2020.

    RAMIREZ, L. F., & ISAZA CASTRO, J. When Size Matters: Trends in Innovation and Patents in Latin American Universities. Journal of Technology Management & Innovation, 14(3), 44-56. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-27242019000300044 , 2019.

    KATHERINE RESTREPO & JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO: ¿De lo masculino a lo femenino? Reflexiones sobre el mercado laboral de la contaduría pública. Revista Científica General José María Córdova, 17(27), 403-430. https://revistacientificaesmic.com/index.php/esmic/article/view/385, 2019.

    JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO: Editorial. Equidad y Desarrollo, (29), 11-12. https://doi.org/10.19052/ed.5079, 2017.

    JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO: Protección social y lucha contra la pobreza en Brasil, Colombia y Chile. ¿Graduarse de los PTC o salir de la pobreza? Carlo Tassara (Editor). Madrid : Programa EUROsociAL, 2015. Estudios Internacionales, 48(184), 167-173. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-3769.2016.42576, 2016.

    DIANA J. CUESTA-LANCHEROS, JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO, et al.: Algunas reflexiones en torno a la medición del desarrollo humano desde una perspectiva cristiana y lasallista. In: Libardo E. Pérez (Editor) Pensar en escuelas de pensamiento: formación, perspectivas y retos de los colectivos del pensar. Bogotá, Ediciones Unisalle: 189-217. https://ciencia.lasalle.edu.co/libros/15/, 2016.

    ISAZA-CASTRO, J.G. Capítulo VIII -Políticas y esquemas para la formalización en las micro y pequeñas empresas en Colombia (Book chapter). In: Linda Deelen (Editora) Políticas para la formalización de las micro y pequeñas empresas en América Latina. Santiago de Chile, International Labour Organisation –ILO, 2015: 137-153pp. Available at: http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—americas/—ro-lima/—sro-santiago/documents/publication/wcms_368329.pdf -last access: 31-Jan-2018

    ISAZA-CASTRO, J.G. Occupational segregation, selection effects and gender wage differences: evidence from urban Colombia. Apuntes Del CENES, Vol. 33 – No.57 (Enero – Junio de 2014): 73-116p. DOI: https://doi.org/10.19053/22565779.2905.

    KABEER, N.; ISAZA-CASTRO, J.G. & MAHMUD, S.: NGOs and the political empowerment of poor people in rural Bangladesh: cultivating the habits of democracy? World Development, Vol.40, No.10, pp.2044-2062, 2012 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.05.011).

    EDOARDO MASSET; LAWRENCE HADDAD; JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO & ALEXANDER CORNELIUS: The effectiveness of agricultural interventions that aim to improve the nutritional status of children: a systematic review, British Medical Journal -BMJ, 2012 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d8222).

    JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO Trade Liberalization and Gender Effects: a Literature Review for Colombia. Revista Equidad y Desarrollo, No.4, Bogotá, Ediciones Unisalle, 2006.

    JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO & CARLOS MEZA: Cambios estructurales de la demanda de trabajo en Colombia: un análisis econométrico entre 1984 y 2000. Revista de Investigación. Bogotá, D.C.: , v.4, n.1, p.99 – 116, 2004.

    JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO Women Workers in Bogota’s Informal Sector: Gendered Impact of Structural Adjustment Policies -SAP- in the 1990s. Planeación y Desarrollo. Bogotá, Departamento Nacional de Planeación: , v.XXXIII, n.Nos. 3 y 4, p.411 – 468, 2002.

    Books

    JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO: El impacto de la COVID-19 en las mujeres trabajadoras de Colombia. Colombia: OIT / Oficina de la OIT para los Países Andinos, 2021. 94 p. https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—americas/—ro-lima/—sro-lima/documents/publication/wcms_774770.pdf

    JAIRO G. ISAZA-CASTRO; NORBERTO ROJAS, RAFAEL CUBILLOS, STÉFANO FARNÉ: Macroeconomía y Empleo en Colombia. Organización Internacional del Trabajo. Lima: International Labour Organisation –ILO Office, 2015. (Available at: http://www.ilo.org/lima/publicaciones/WCMS_444919/lang–es/index.htm – last access: 29-01-2016)

    ISAZA-CASTRO, J.G. Estudio de los perfiles ocupacionales que demanda el sector hidrocarburos en el Departamento de la Guajira (As Project Coordinator). Red ORMET (Programa de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo –UNDP Colombia). Available at https://issuu.com/pnudcol/docs/guajira_final -last access: 31-Jan-2018.

    NOHORA LEÓN, JAIRO G. ISAZA-CASTRO & CARLOS MEZA: Las transformaciones del sector rural en Colombia desde las reformas neoliberales: un análisis entre 1980 y 2004. Bogotá, Ediciones Unisalle, 2012

    JAIRO G. ISAZA-CASTRO (As coordinator of the technical team): Cundinamarca – 2012: Estado de Avance de los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio. Bogotá, Programa de Naciones Unidas Para el Desarrollo -PNUD -Colombia y Universidad de La Salle, 2012

    EDOARDO MASSET, LAWRENCE HADDAD; JAIRO G. ISAZA-CASTRO & ALEXANDER CORNELIUS: A systematic review of agricultural interventions that aim to improve nutritional status of children. London: EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. ISBN: 978-1-907345-09-8, 2011. Available at: https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/906 -last access: 21 Jan 2021).

    KABEER, N., MAHMUD, S. & ISAZA CASTRO: NGOs’ Strategies and the Challenge of Development and Democracy in Bangladesh. IDS Working Paper 343. Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies, 2010 (available at: https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/906 -last access: 21 Jan 2021).

    JAIRO G. ISAZA-CASTRO & CARLOS ACOSTA & CARLOS MEZA: Gender, Poverty and Labour Market Dynamics: A microsimulations analysis for Urban Colombia between 1990 and 2004. Saarbrücken (Germany): LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010

    RAMIREZ HERNANDEZ, LUÍS FERNANDO & ISAZA CASTRO, JAIRO GUILLERMO (Editors) Empleo, pobreza y desigualdad: una mirada desde la investigación universitaria. Bogotá: Ediciones Unisalle, 2007, p.301

    RAMIREZ HERNANDEZ, LUÍS FERNANDO, ISAZA CASTRO, JAIRO GUILLERMO (Editors) Empleo, Reformas Estructurales y Desarrollo. Bogotá: Ediciones Unisalle, 2006

    RESTREPO RIVILLAS, CARLOS ALBERTO; ISAZA CASTRO, JAIRO GUILLERMO; ACOSTA NIÑO, CLARA INÉS. Competitividad y estructura de la economía colombiana. Bogotá: Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2005, v.500. p.294

    ISAZA CASTRO, JAIRO GUILLERMO & RENDON ACEVEDO, JAIME ALBERTO, Guía Metodológica para la Formulación y Presentación de Proyectos de Investigación. Colección Apuntes de Clase No. 1. Bogotá, Ediciones Unisalle, 2005 (Segunda Edición, 2007)

    Conferences (selected)

    JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO: Covid-19, Society, and Economy: the Case of Colombia (invited tele-conference). School of Public Health, SRM University Sikkim, Public Health Webinar Series. 25 June, 2021.

    JAIRO G. ISAZA-CASTRO: Assessing the impacts of large-scale macroeconomic reforms on labour markets, poverty and income distribution: the case of Colombia. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Democratic Governance in the Developing World, Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration, Rio de Janeiro, June 28-29, 2018.

    JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO: Computing occupational segregation indices with standard errors: an ado file application for Colombia. Paper presented at the Stata Annual Conference. Baltimore (MD), 28 July 2017. Available at: https://www.stata.com/meeting/baltimore17/slides/Baltimore17_Isaza-Castro.pdf -last access: 31-Jan-2018.

    JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO: Occupational Segregation and gender wage differences in 13 metropolitan areas of Colombia. Paper presented at the International Symposium Clacso-OLA/The New School. New York, 26 May 2016.

    ISAZA-CASTRO, J.G. & BARRY REILLY: Female Intensity, Trade Reforms and Capital Investments in Colombian Manufacturing Industries: 1981-2000. Paper presented at the 18th Meetings of the Society of labour Economists –SOLE (University of Chicago). Boston (MA), 3th May, 2013. (Available at: http://www.sole-jole.org/13354.pdf).

    JAIRO ISAZA-CASTRO & BARRY REILLY: Occupational Segregation by Gender: An Empirical Analysis for Urban Colombia (1986-2004). Paper presented at Guanajuato Workshop for young economists. Guanajuato, Mexico. Universidad de Guanajuato, 7th August, 2010.

Service and Community Engagement

Currently, Dr. Isaza-Castro is the Director of the Center for Global Workplace Equity & Inclusion at the School of Business. Through this Center, Dr. Isaza-Castro will be working with CBU students and academics in other institutions to undertake interdisciplinary research in the field of labor studies with the aim of enabling the equitable inclusion of vulnerable population groups into the labor markets.

After two decades of working for Lasallian institutions, Dr. Isaza-Castro fully identifies himself with the preferential option for the poor and vulnerable professed by the Catholic Church in the United States and the rest of the world.

Office Hours

Mondays to Thursdays, 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.