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Financial development and income inequality in Latin American countries: an instrumental variables estimation
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2023-10-29)
Latin America has made significant progress in financial development and poverty reduction in recent decades. Nevertheless, its persistent levels of inequality have further potential to be reduced, and financial development ...
Understanding the drivers of household energy spending: micro evidence for Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2020-12-23)
The paper investigates the determinants of household energy spending and energy budget shares, with a focus on understanding their non-linear relationship with income, and the presence of economies of scale. The analysis ...
Social effect of Covid-19: estimates and alternatives for Latin America and the Caribbean
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2020-12-31)
This document offers estimates of the possible changes in the social structure of the countries of Latin America derived from the consequent economic contraction from the Covid-19 pandemic and explores the possible costs ...
Sex-ratios and work in Latin American households: evidence from Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Chile
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-06-18)
We analyze the relationship between sex-ratios in the region of residence, and the time devoted to paid and unpaid work by couples in Mexico (2002, 2009, 2014), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012), Colombia (2012, 2017) and Chile ...
Sanctions and oil production: evidence from Venezuela’s Orinoco Basin
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-09-22)
We use the differential access to credit of oil firms in Venezuela’s Orinoco Basin to identify the economic effects of financial and oil sanctions on firm output. Using a panel of monthly firm-level oil production from ...
The role of innovation in employment growth, skills demand, and wages: evidence from Ecuador
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2023-01-30)
This study’s main objective is assessing the effects of innovation on firms’ employment growth. Further, we aimed to examine the quality of jobs in terms of skills and wages. By applying a structural modeling approach, ...
What effect does public and private capital have on income inequality? The case of the Latin America and Caribbean region
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-02-14)
The effects that the Latin America and Caribbean capital stock (public and private) had on the income inequality levels of 18 countries from this region were analysed, over a period ranging from 1995 to 2017, recurring to ...
Equality without equity: the gender pay gap at the National University of Colombia
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-12-01)
The National University of Colombia boasts a clear and egalitarian salary regime for its academic staff. Apart from rules concerning maternity and paternity leaves, which follow national Colombian legislation, the Academic ...
Intrahousehold bargaining power and time allocation for multiple activities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2023-10-04)
During the last decades, important policies have been implemented to incorporate women into the labor market, reduce persistent gender inequalities, and balance the time allocation between paid and unpaid work. We assess ...
Labor market indicator for Colombia
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-06-18)
Although the unemployment rate is traditionally used to diagnose the current state of the labor market, this indicator does not reflect the existence of asymmetries, mobility costs, and rigidities which impede labor to ...