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Carlos J. Gil Hernández

Carlos J. Gil Hernández works as a Social Scientist at the Joint Research Centre - Centre for Advanced Studies in the project Social Classes in the Digital Age (DIGCLASS).

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Carlos J. Gil Hernández works as a Social Scientist at the JRC - Centre for Advanced Studies in the project `Social Classes in the Digital Age´ (DIGCLASS) from June 2021. DIGCLASS is an interdisciplinary project including economists, sociologists and political scientists looking at both opportunities and challenges related to the impact of technological disruptions —automation, digitalisation and platformisation— on socioeconomic inequalities in the labour market; health outcomes; educational attainment; and political behaviour.

Carlos has a background as a quantitative sociologist, carrying out theoretically-driven empirical research with interdisciplinary interests in social stratification, income inequality, skill formation, and social policy. He defended his PhD thesis on intergenerational educational inequality at the European University Institute (EUI), including a visiting fellowship at the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre within the ERC EFFORT project. Carlos also holds a Master of Research in Sociology and Demography at the Pompeu Fabra University, a Master of Science in Sociology at Tilburg University, and a Master of Research in Political and Social Sciences at the EUI.

Before joining the European Commission, Carlos worked as a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin and the University of Trento in projects on the impact of digital devices on child mental health and the measurement of equality of opportunity. During his postgraduate studies, he worked as a research assistant at Tilburg University (around the European Values ​​Study and an international volume on social mobility), as an external consultant for the EUROFOUND, and research assistant at the EUI on the geography of social mobility in Europe.

The role of institutional factors in the intersection between labour markets, welfare states and families is a central concern in his research. Thus, he is interested in designing and evaluating more effective social policies. Accordingly, he has recently participated in an expert commission on social inequality appointed by the Foresight Unit of the Spanish Government to produce a report (España 2050) requested by the Prime Minister.

Carlos' work has been published in journals and editorials such as Sociology of Education, European Sociological Review, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, American Behavioral Scientist, Demographic Research, and Stanford University Press.

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