His research spans the fields of labour economics and macroeconomics. He has worked on topics related to occupational mobility, skill transferability, technological change and wage inequality. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Costa Rica and a PhD from the University of British Columbia, and he previously worked as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at the University of Manchester in the UK. His work has so far been published in the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and the Journal of the European Economic Association.