La persistente desigualdad de ingresos en Colombia descendió levemente en años recientes, como resultado de una mayor formalidad del empleo, el aumento del ingreso de los trabajadores y, en menor medida, el enfoque redistributivo de los programas sociales. Los ingresos laborales son la...

I In this paper we develop a methodology to find out how to optimize the use of the three incentives to owner-occupied housing in the income tax : tax credit for the saving invested in a bank account, assigned to the future adquisition of the home, for cash payment or borrowing. The criterion we...

This paper looks for empirical evidence to show if a very interventionist government stimulates or not private investment in Latin America. Using the same model as Caballero-Urdiales y López-Gallardo (2012), we extend their analysis from five Latin-American countries to all Latin America. The...