liberalizations in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s to investigate the relationship between protection and industry wages. Using the …Worker industry affiliation plays a crucial role in how trade policy affects wages in many trade models. Yet, most … research has focused on how trade policy affects wages by altering the economy-wide returns to a specific worker characteristic …

We present a detailed, high-frequency dataset on the civil conflict in Colombia during the period 1988-2002. We briefly …

We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution …, changes in industry wages that hurt sectors with initially lower wages and a higher fraction of unskilled workers, and shifts … of the labour force towards the informal sector that typically pays lower wages and offers no benefits. Our results …

1980’s and 1990’s - Brazil and Colombia - we examine the response of the informal sector to liberalization. In Brazil, we … find no evidence of a relationship between trade policy and informality. In Colombia, we do find evidence of such a …

We compare the treatment of Colombia in large cross-country conflict datasets with the information of the detailed …

insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …

This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry … real wages. Hence, offshoring has contributed to a widening of the wage gap between skilled and less skilled workers. This …

cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … emphasis on cross-country comparisons. Most, but not all, countries experienced substantial increases in wages and earnings …