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liberalizations in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s to investigate the relationship between protection and industry wages. Using the …
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We present a detailed, high-frequency dataset on the civil conflict in Colombia during the period 1988-2002. We briefly …
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We investigate the effects of the drastic tariff reductions of the 1980s and 1990s in Colombia on the wage distribution …
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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 …
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We compare the treatment of Colombia in large cross-country conflict datasets with the information of the detailed …
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Analysis of our new, 16-year dataset on the Colombian civil war finds under Uribe: guerrilla and paramilitary attacks dropping sharply against long-run averages since 1988, lower for April-December, 2003; government-guerrilla clashes at all-time highs, exceeding guerrilla attacks; civilian killings...
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This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
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different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic … resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … of the distribution of economic activity in the different migration scenarios. Our results indicate that fully …
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This paper summarizes the study design of the Rural–Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project. We first … identifying the migration status of each household in the sampling frame, using a presurvey listing. This is followed by a …
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population) and out-migration is lower the poorer and the less unequal the village of residence. Our results are consistent with …
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