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Colombia, a country characterized by a long historical prevalence of violent conflicts between the government, the militia …
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Colombia. Negative binomial cross-sectional estimates indicate that departments sharing an international border and overall …
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, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period …
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This paper evaluates the extent of wage rigidities in Colombia over a period, 2002-2014, in which the fall in … description of the wage setting rule in Colombia, compare it with the common one in the advanced economies, and call for a far …
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We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in contrast to the standard theoretical prediction. On the contrary, internal institutional arrangements – payroll taxation, the minimum wage or the price wedge between...
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This paper analyzes the individual-level determinants of wage inequality for Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador from 2001 … regressions and decompositions of standard Gini indices. Although popular opinion and standard Gini indices suggest Colombia to …'s or Ecuador's. In 2010, educational achievement explains over 10.9 percent of the Gini score in Colombia, 6.3 percent in …
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This article explores the variation in the wage distributions of two Latin American countries, Bolivia and Colombia …, especially benefiting the least skilled workers and the informal sector. On the other hand, the wage distribution in Colombia …
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We study the effects of grade retention on secondary school performance by considering a change in Colombia's educative …
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Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
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