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Does more mean better? Sibling sex composition and the link between family size and children's quality
Baez, Javier E. - 2008
the household or the outcomes of these investments. Results using data from Colombia suggest that family size has negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268778
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The persistent gender earnings gap in Colombia, 1994-2006
Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo; Peña, Ximena - 2010
This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276061
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Conflict and its impact on educational accumulation and enrollment in Colombia: What we can learn from recent IDPs
Wharton, Kate; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2011
Forty years of low-intensity internal armed conflict has made Colombia home to the world's second largest population of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280672
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Persistent impact of natural disasters on child nutrition and schooling: Evidence from the 1999 Colombian earthquake
Bustelo, Monserrat; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P.; … - 2012
collected one and six years after the earthquake. Colombia provides a unique setting for our study because the government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282238
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The impact of Colombia's pension and health insurance systems on informality
Calderón-Mejía, Valentina; Marinescu, Ioana E. - 2012
Social protection systems in developing countries are typically composed of a bundle of benefits, the major ones being health insurance and pensions. Benefit bundling may increase informality and decrease welfare. Indeed, if some of the benefits are valued at substantially less than their cost,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282481
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Conditional cash transfers, political participation, and voting behavior
Báez Ramírez, Javier Eduardo; Camacho, Adriana; … - 2012
This paper estimates the effect of enrollment in a large scale anti-poverty program in Colombia, Familias en Acción (FA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289839
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Is the wage curve formal or informal? Evidence for Colombia
Ramos, Raúl; Duque, Juan C.; Suriñach, Jordi - 2009
The objective of this paper is to analyse the existence or not of a wage curve in Colombia, paying special attention to …, the estimates of the elasticity of individual wages to local unemployment rates was -0.07, a value that is very close to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276705
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Fiscal policy, economic integration and unemployment
Eggert, Wolfgang; Goerke, Laszlo - 2003
In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261641
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What have we learned about the employment effects of severance pay? : Further iterations of Lazear et al.
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2003
In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on …-varying labor market institutions. While the positive effect of severance pay on unemployment garners some support, there is no real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261645
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Gerontocracy in motion? : European cross-country evidence on the labor market consequences of population ageing
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2003
Taking a European cross-country perspective, this paper addresses the most important issues in the nexus of population ageing and labor markets. We start from a descriptive overview of the demographic change currently shaping European societies. The subsequent section intensively discusses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261652