This paper provides a systematic review of the scientific literature on fertility and its relationship with economics. We explore theoretical and empirical frameworks developed in the last fifty years, emphasizing on the classical (Becker, Easterling) and unorthodox approaches (Bongaarts,...

This paper estimates the determinants of the unemployment durations, and assesses the efficiency on job search in Cartagena, Colombia, using data from the Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE for its initials in Spanish) (IIIQ-2008). We...