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Beveridge curve and use the vacancy rate to forecast unemployment. This first look at the series yields sensible results, while …
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Based on the counting of Help-wanted advertisements in print newspapers, we present national vacancy indexes and vacancy rates for Colombia. These series will allow tackling a myriad of questions related to the functioning of the labor markets in emerging economies, where such datasets were not...
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La evidencia empírica para Colombia muestra relaciones tanto positivas como negativas entre el crecimiento del producto y empleo, a diferencia de lo encontrado en economías desarrolladas como la de los Estados Unidos. El presente trabajo usa modelos VAR y de Equilibrio General Dinámico y...
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En este trabajo se estima una tasa natural de desempleo para Colombia en el período 1984-2006.Siguiendo el modelo de negociación de salarios de Blanchard (1991), se emplea un filtro de Kalman,para estimar un sistema de ecuaciones para la tasa natural de desempleo, el desajuste del...
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We assess the effects of the Colombian Unemployment Subsidy (US) program on future labor participation, unemployment … not increase, and for some populations decrease during the 18 months after leaving from the Unemployment Subsidy program …, larger decreases in their labor participation, and greater increases in their unemployment rates. We also find a small though …
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This study uses a Dynamic Conditional Correlation multivariate GARCH approach for testing for contagion among Latin American financial markets to shocks originated in the United States and Europe. Using daily data on stock market returns for the period comprised between July 4th, 2001 and...
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Financial system´s health is a signal of economic growth therefore it is a key indicator toinvestors. As a consequence, one of the main purposes of policymakers is to keep itsstability as well as protect it from foreign activity. Both financial and economic activity ingeneral are susceptible of...
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En este documento se estudian las tendencias del subempleo y las características de los trabajadores subempleados, con el fin de establecer un marco bajo el cual se pueden analizar los determinantes del subempleo. Posteriormente, se propone el uso de un modelo teórico desarrollado por...
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El desempleo varía sustancialmente en el tiempo y para diferentes grupos de trabajadores. Los flujos brutos de trabajadores entre los diferentes estados del mercado de trabajo son factores determinantes de estas variaciones. En este trabajo se investiga cómo los cambios en los flujos brutos...
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This paper analyzes efficiency in an economy with an informal sector that consists of unregulated self-employment, and where there are no costs of being informal, (Albrecht et al. (2009)). First, assuming workers in the formal sector are ex-ante heterogeneous, I show that this type of economy is...
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