Elena Pastorino is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, a Faculty Research Fellow at the Department of Economics at Stanford University, and a Research Fellow at SIEPR (Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research). Her main interests are in the areas of labor economics and macroeconomics. Her research focuses on understanding the dynamics of individual wages, job mobility, and employment both at life-cycle and business-cycle frequencies, and on evaluating the impact of social insurance programs and government policies in labor markets.