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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 ...
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 ...
Spatial relationship between unemployment immigration and criminality in a developing city
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2024-04-23)
This article discusses the relationships between Unemployment, immigration, and crime. In recent years, Venezuelan social and economic instability has led to an exodus of Venezuelan citizens to Colombian cities. Cali, ...
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 ...
Firm heterogeneity and innovation strategy decision
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2024-04-24)
Research on innovation strategy has focused on dichotomic (yes or no) options and the determinants of technological (product and process) innovations. This paper includes a variety of innovation strategies to extend the ...