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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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Gary Becker's theory of discrimination argues that increasing competition will reduce discrimination in the labor market. We use the Colombian trade liberalization episode over the period 198491 to investigate this claim on plant-level data in three ways. First, we examine whether women are...
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This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...
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We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors in tariff changes after the...
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The objective of this paper is to analyse the existence or not of a wage curve in Colombia, paying special attention to …
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This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent … America ; Colombia ; matching …
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production of one such resource coca paste into Colombia, where most coca leaf is now harvested. Our analysis shows that this …
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the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative … alternative sub-samples. -- Fertility ; household behavior ; children's well-being ; Colombia …
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This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 …
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