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This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to …
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of time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women make up 63% to 84% of long …
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The relationship between firms and inequality has been a focus of recent attention globally. This chapter summarizes basic facts about this relationship for Latin America. Unlike advanced economies where superstar firm growth has prompted concerns over disproportionate income growth at the top,...
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Massive digitalization advances have made demand response (DR) programs feasible in the residential sector; however, most households in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region do not know about these types of programs. In this report, the authors explore experiments about the willingness of...
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This paper surveys selected themes in the political economy of policymaking in Latin America, with an emphasis on recent research focusing on actual decision and implementation processes, and on the political institutions and state and social actors involved in those processes. In particular,...
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States and whether an FTA with the United States would help Colombia to diversify their exports. We find that lower tariffs … have indeed favored exports of new products from Colombia. Predictions suggest that the FTA is likely to induce further …
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of productive development policies in Colombia. These policies are increasingly designed in the context of formal …
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crawling peg exchange rate regimes, Colombia adopted a full-fledged inflation-targeting (IT) regime in 1999, with inflation as …
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