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Socioeconomic effects of COVID-19 in Mexico: a multisectoral approach and policy options
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-01-10)
The health crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19 has caused a profound social and economic disruption in Mexico. Our purpose in this paper is to contribute to the knowledge about the economic impact of the pandemic in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Socioeconomic status and mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of 8 large Latin American cities
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2022-12-23)
This study analyzes mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic for 8 large Latin American cities. Indicators of mobility by socioeconomic status (SES) are generated by combining geo-referenced mobile phone information ...