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

This document offers a long-run overview of the labor market in Colombia analyzing the effects of payroll taxes and … minimum wage on the unemployment rate, unemployment duration and labor informality. The estimations indicate that the increase … of payroll tax generates a rise in informality, unemployment and its duration. It is shown that rise in nonlabor costs …

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