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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 ...
Local economic development through export-led growth: the Chilean case
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2024-04-08)
We study the causal impact of export growth on Chilean local economic development during 2000–2006 by exploiting spatial and temporal variations in local exposure stemming from the interaction of past differences in industry ...
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 ...
Uncovering the wage differential between formal and informal jobs: analysis from the Colombian Caribbean region
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-01-21)
The paper aims to assess the wage differential that would induce workers to switch between informal and formal sectors, analysing the informal labour market in the Colombian Caribbean region. Relying on the theory of ...
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 ...
Privatization in the natural gas sector: a general equilibrium analysis
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2023-08-29)
A broad literature highlights efficiency gains due to cost reduction after privatizations in the energy sector. However, to the best of our knowledge, this literature does not develop general equilibrium models, which are ...