vacancy rates for Colombia. These series will allow tackling a myriad of questions related to the functioning of the labor …

Beveridge curve and use the vacancy rate to forecast unemployment. This first look at the series yields sensible results, while …

This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the … determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of the rural … unemployment over time, finding that they are caused by contractions in aggregate demand. These demand contractions result from …

Informality is at the center of the economic debate in Colombia, fueled by the high level prevalent in the country and …-wage costs and the minimum wage on the size of the informal sector, the transition into and out of informality, and wages. Our … results indicate that rises in non-wage costs and the minimum wage, increase the probability of transition into informality as …

involuntary unemployment through the interaction of the monetary markets and the goods markets; and (ii) the determination of the …