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 …

This paper quantifies the magnitude of transitions across occupational categories in Colombia, a country with high … found in Colombia and elsewhere in the region that transitions between occupations are large and asymmetric: they are …

systems in Colombia. These distortions refer to the discrepancy between the cost of formal social security for the employer …

-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 …

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