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How has labor demand been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic? Evidence from job ads in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-05-26)
There is a concern among social scientists and policymakers that the COVID-19 crisis might permanently change the nature of work. We study how labor demand in Mexico has been affected during the pandemic by web scraping ...
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 ...
Government intervention in rural insurance and reinsurance markets in Mexico, 1940-2000
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2021)
This paper explains the historical development of agricultural insurance and reinsurance in Mexico in the second half of the 20th century. The central argument is that the Mexican government did not fully actívate the rural ...
The COVID-19 economic crisis in Mexico through the Lens of a financial conditions index
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-12-08)
The COVID-19 pandemic not only generated real shocks affecting economic activity severely, but also a broad uncertainty that unleashed an extreme shock to financial markets. In this paper, we focus on the financial dimension ...
Size-dependent gender gaps in entrepreneurship: the case of Chile
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-02-28)
This paper documents differences in firm size depending on whether their manager is a man or a woman and studies the aggregate implications of these gender gaps in Chile. We document that in 2007 less than a quarter of ...
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 ...
The dynamics of social deprivation in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-06-04)
This paper aims to model the dynamics of social deprivation in Mexico using a Markovian approach. First, we establish a scenario where a list of items characterizing social deprivation evolves as a first-order Markov chain ...
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 ...
Macroeconomic effects of loan supply shocks: empirical evidence for Peru
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-07-09)
This paper quantifies and assesses the impact of an adverse loan supply (LS) shock on Peru’s main macroeconomic aggregates using a Bayesian vector autoregressive (BVAR) model in combination with an identification scheme ...
Does education increase risk aversion in households? Some evidence using artefactual experiments in Peru
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2021-09-20)
We provide empirical evidence supporting a causal link between education and risk attitudes when using representative data from representative surveys and artefactual or lab-on-the-field experiments in Lima, Peru. We employ ...