Individual's decisions regarding their retirement savings have usually been theoretically approached under the hypothesis that the Social Security System works as a substitute to other savings mechanisms. This document presents empirical evidence of the determinants and patterns of savings for...

Economic literature has focused on both causes and effects of trade union membership; however, most of the studies about trade unions in Colombia have been focused on its effects over wages and inequality. On this document we present an estimation of the structural determinants of trade union...

In general, empirical studies on economics rely on the assumption of constant capital share of income both at the aggregate level and at the sector level. However, there is no empirical evidence supporting the constancy of capital share at the sector level. In this paper, using Colombian data,...

This paper uses Colombian household survey data collected over the period 1984-2005 to estimate Gini coeficients along with their corresponding standard errors. We find a statistically signicant increase in wage income inequality following the adoption of the liberalisation measures of the early...

We employ the measures traditionally used to analyze poverty, for studying the differences in the Body Mass Index (BMI) scores, according to the age and other socioeconomic variables, for people between 20 and 60. We use information from Demographic and Health Survey (DHS, 2005). We find that...

We test the existence of changes in the relationship between fertility and schooling in Colombia for women from 30 to 40 years old between 1995 and 2005. For our purpose, we use Poisson Regression Models. Our database is the Demographic and Health Survey from 1995 and 2005. We found a reduction...

In this paper, we attempt to analyze the determinants of unintended births among Colombian women aged 40 years old or more using data from the "Encuesta Nacional de Demografía y Salud ENDS- 2005", which is Colombia's national demographic and health survey. Given the especial characteristics of...

The economic outcomes of the inception of both recent migrants and IDPs into the labor market of the main 10 urban areas of Colombia are analyzed using information from the Continuous Household Survey (ECH). We adapt the theoretical framework provided by Borjas (1982, 1985, 1987, 1990) to the...