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

2011 for urban areas in Colombia and a differences-in-differences approach, we find that unemployment rates of those …

rates for Colombia for the period 1976 - 2012. The result is the first dataset capturing the evolution of vacancies for … Colombia and the first one covering such a long period for any developing country. We publish the series in the Additional file …