We examine whether the Colombian trade reform can explain any of Colombia's decline in urban poverty between 1984 and … 1995. Our approach focuses on short- and medium- run channels through which trade reform could affect poverty. Despite the … chronological coincidence of the poverty reduction with the trade reforms over this period, we do not observe any evidence of a link …

care models of health insurance in wealthy countries, Colombia's Régimen Subsidiado is a publicly financed insurance …

impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few …, government policy effectively countered its effects on incomes, leading poverty to fall and low percentiles of income to rise …

, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic … integration with global product markets has increased both average income and job turnover in Colombia. In contrast, the …

satisfaction among employees. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment with a bank in Colombia to change the frequency and …

We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia …

We use a panel of manufacturing plants from Colombia to analyze how the rise in payroll tax rates over the 1980s and … and taxes and the presence of downward wage rigidities in Colombia. Because the costs of taxation are only partly shifted …