Agustina Marques Hill
Research fields
Agustina is a PhD student at the Freie Universität and a Research fellow in the WZB Research Department Skill Formation and Labor Markets with a research grant from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). Her research focuses in School to Work transitions in a comparative perspective with developed and developing economies. Her research interests include Education, Labour Market, Inequality, Social Demography and Quantitative Methodology.
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Education
2014-2018 Master in Sociology, with a focus on research methods, University of the Republic, Uruguay.
Thesis title: “Between Inclusion and Divergence: Vocational Education in the Higher Education System in Uruguay 2000-2015.”
2009-2013 Bachelor in Sociology, University of the Republic, Uruguay.
Thesis title: "The Articulation Between Agricultural Production and the Educational Offer: A Vision from the Most Dynamic Sectors."
Academic Positions
2020-2021: Research fellow for the projects “Literature Revision and Operationalization on the Concept of Quality of Work” and "Gendered Educational Aspirations with PISA Data 2006-2018" in the President’s Research Group at the Berlin Social Science Center WZB.
2018- 2019 Research assistant in project "Persistence and graduation in Higher Education between 2005 and 2018. Impacts of the decentralization of UDELAR: Northeast, East and Montevideo regions" funded by the Research Project for the Improvement of the Quality of University Teaching (PIMCEU- CSE-UDELAR). Department of Sociology, University of the Republic.
2018-2019 Research assistant in project "Profile of freshmen, points of bifurcation in the trajectory and disaffiliation in the entrance to the university. A comparative case study in four universities in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay" funded by the Nucleus of Studies and Research in Higher Education of MERCOSUR (NEIES). Department of Sociology, University of the Republic
2015-2018. Research assistant in the Academic Unit of the Decentralization Unit of the University of the Republic. In charge of students´ and careers´ reports.
2014. Research Assistant in the project "Follow-up project for students who took PISA assessments in 2009 for longitudinal database (PISA-L 2009)". Department of Sociology, University of the Republic.