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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 ...
Fiscal decentralization and the allocation of public spending of subnational governments: the case of Ecuador
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2023-11-08)
This article analyzes the relationship between fiscal decentralization and the growth rate of per capita public spending by subnational governments in Ecuador. An empirical strategy supported in a theoretical model is ...
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 ...
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 ...