Research — Germán A. Tessmer

Working papers, publications, and datasets by Germán A. Tessmer. Labor economics, household surveys (EPH), informality, and applied econometrics in Argentina.

Working Papers

From Breaks to Bridges: An Architecture for Survey Redesigns That Expand Conceptual Scope (with Bárbara Boggiano) → SSRN → bridge_eph.R

Data

Series de datos estimadas de formalidad laboral más allá del empleo asalariado en Argentina a partir de la Encuesta Permanente de Hogares (EPH), 2016-T4 – 2025-T4 (with Bárbara Boggiano) Universidad Nacional de Rosario, 2026. Quarterly formality and informality series for all employed workers under the expanded 17th ICLS concept, with the unobserved span estimated by post-LASSO backcasting. → Dataset
EPH – Observatorio. Encuesta Permanente de Hogares de Argentina. Explicada, etiquetada y ampliada (with Santiago Moleres & Laureano E. Hess) Universidad Nacional de Rosario, 2024. → Dataset → separa_eph.R

All EPH-related materials — research, documentation, datasets, and reports — are collected in the EPH Ecosystem page.

Software

comparability_bridge() / puente_comparabilidad() — EPH comparability bridge (2024 redesign) (with Bárbara Boggiano) Contributed to and merged into pyeph, the Python library for Argentina’s EPH (Instituto Humai), released in v1.7.0, 2026. Rebuilds the aggregate variables removed from the INDEC user databases by the Q4-2024 questionnaire redesign and corrects the PP11L1/PP11L2 inversion — the same rules as bridge_eph.R, ported to Python. The package documentation cites the working paper and the EPH – Observatorio dataset. → Docs → Release → PyPI

Publications

Cruzar la meta y seguir corriendo. La Universidad Nacional de Rosario y la empleabilidad de sus graduados en el Gran Rosario (with Ana Inés Navarro, Vanesa D’Elia, et al.) Xanto Editora, 2018. ISBN: 978-987-42-9366-4. → Repository

Reports & Outreach

Director and co-author of over 60 research and outreach reports published between 2015 and 2026 through the Observatorio Económico Social UNR (ISSN 2683-9067), covering labor markets, monetary policy, housing, energy, and regional economics. All reports are available through the UNR institutional repository.

Selected reports:

Formalidad laboral argentina. Una historia alternativa creíble Observatorio Económico Social UNR, 2026. Formality and informality across the full universe of employed workers, Q4-2016 to Q3-2025, based on the estimated series. → Repository
Nueva ley de alquileres: contexto general y situación de los estudiantes de UNR (with Diego Marfetán Molina, Luciano Jara Musuruana, Alfredo Bula, Lucia Papa & Patricio Almeida Gentile) Observatorio Económico Social UNR, 2021. → Repository
Pre-Covid: Indicadores socio-económicos para AGR y Argentina (with Luciano Jara Musuruana, Diego Marfetán Molina, Lucia Papa & Patricio Almeida Gentile) Observatorio Económico Social UNR, 2020. → Repository
La educación en Santa Fe y Rosario: resultados Aprender 2016 (with Patricio Almeida Gentile) Observatorio Económico Social UNR, 2017. → Repository
10 preguntas para entender las variaciones del tipo de cambio Observatorio Económico Social UNR, 2016. → Repository