Carolina Ortega has been a PhD student at the Department of Economics at Universidad de Alcalá de Henares in Madrid, Spain, since 2001. She undertook her undergraduate studies at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina, from where she graduated with a B.Sc. in Economics. Subsequently, she obtained her Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (M.Sc. in Economics equivalent) in 2003. Her main research interest is on applied labour economics, with a particular focus on issues of immigration.