This document provides recent evidence about the persistency of wage gaps between formal and informal workers in Colombia. The methodology is based on a non-parametric procedure proposed by Nopo (2008a) that allows us to compare labor incomes using matching on variables over a Nationwide...

Abstract: This document provides recent evidence about the persistency of wage gaps between formal and informal workers in Colombia by using a non-parametric method proposed by Ñopo (2008a). Over a rich dataset at a household level during 2008-2012, it is found that formal workers earn between...

This paper studies the growth rate of Colombian GDP between 1982 and 2008 with a SETAR model (Self-Exciting Threshold Autoregressive), based on the methodology proposed by Tsay (1989) and Tong (1990) for the detection of nonlinearities related to changeable regimens. The main results show...

This paper examines the trends and magnitude of earnings differentials among urban and rural workers, and young (18-24 years) and old (25-65 years) workers from 2002 to 2009 in Colombia. Using household surveys data and constructing cells for comparing only workers with the same characteristics,...

Este documento evalúa el comportamiento y la magnitud de las desigualdades salariales de los trabajadores rurales respecto a los urbanos y de los jóvenes respecto a los mayores de 25 años en Colombia, para el período 2002-2009. La aplicación de pruebas de raíz unitaria y la metodología...