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Automation and the jobs of young workers
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-02-14)
New automation technologies affect workers in a heterogeneous manner according to their demographic characteristics, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study the effects of automation on labor market ...
The dynamic linkages between exporting and importing in Colombian manufacturing
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
This paper analyses the dynamic linkages between firms’ imports of intermediate inputs and exports, for Colombia, an emerging economy. We use data for manufacturing firms from the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey, for ...
Convergence of carbon dioxide emissions in the Americas and its determinants
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
This paper investigates the convergence behaviour of carbon dioxide emissions for 39 countries in the Americas from 1960-2016. A linear regression test of convergence which looks for conditional sigma convergence is employed, ...
Heterogeneous returns of informality: evidence from Brazil
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
This paper estimates the marginal treatment effect of formality on wages for Brazil at the individual level leveraging regional data on labor inspections for identification. The results show that there is significant ...
Socioeconomic status and mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of 8 large Latin American cities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-23)
This study analyzes mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic for 8 large Latin American cities. Indicators of mobility by socioeconomic status (SES) are generated by combining geo-referenced mobile phone information ...
Coffee in crisis offers a lesson in resilience: evidence from Guatemala
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
The idea that resilience plays a role in mitigating the effects of disaster and climate change is becoming widespread across the development community. Consequently, the concept of resilience has been translated into ...
Financial exclusion and financial literacy: evidence from Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
This study seeks to contribute to the understanding of the underlying factors that can explain the high levels of financial exclusion that persist in Mexico, with focus on the role of financial literacy. Our analysis is ...
Technical efficiency, production risk, and sharecropping: the case of rice farming in Chile
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-26)
Contractual relationships regarding land tenure in agriculture are diverse. From formal systems such as landowner and fixed rent, sharecropping emerges as an alternative in which the owner of the land shares the benefits ...