, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate … explore empirically these issues using household data covering nine episodes from four Latin American countries (Brazil …

four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro …-cyclical in all countries up to the mid-1990s except in Chile. Wage cyclicality declines thereafter, especially in Brazil and … Colombia. This decline in wage cyclicality is in accordance with declining real-wage flexibility in a low-inflation environment …

-digit inflation in the 1980s. Several other countries--for example, Colombia--have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged …

economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … find evidence of economies of scale in Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam, implying the existence of a natural monopoly. In … Brazil the authors cannot reject the null hypothesis of constant returns to scale. They also find evidence of economies of …

overlaps not only in a period of high economic growth, but also after the implementation of Plan Colombia. The data set is used …

transfer program in Colombia, attained more school and performed better on academic tests at the end of high school …

This paper is a study of the effect of Brazil's staggered Internet rollout between 2000 and 2014 on municipality … employment and wages. The study uses a new, annual data set on Internet availability from the Brazil school census, with the … Internet connections. These data are combined with Brazil's rich, matched employer-employee survey, which contains annual …

The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The …

the law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16 in Brazil in 1998, and uncovers its impact on time …