Spanish Abstract: En la sociedad colombiana contemporánea, al igual que sucede en muchos países del mundo, los-as jóvenes deben enfrentarse a una concepción del mundo del trabajo que ha cambiado radicalmente. En lugar de una rutina estable, de una carrera predecible, de la adhesión a una...

Spanish Abstract: El objetivo central de este artículo es analizar la influencia del liderazgo sobre el clima organizacional. Se hace una revisión de los antecedentes del liderazgo, sus conceptos y las diferentes teorías propuestas por varios autores. Se estudia el clima organizacional, sus...

Spanish Abstract: Este artículo presenta el resultado de la investigación realizada en el Instituto Colombiano de Normas Técnicas y Certificación (Icontec), sede comercial Bogotá, donde se correlacionaron dos variables: 1) Alienación y 2) Anomia, o conductas desviadas, con respecto a la...

This study investigates the role of race, family background and education in earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent population in Brazil. It uses quantile Mincer earnings regressions to go beyond the usual decomposition of average earnings gaps. Differences in human...

Progress in closing differences in many objective outcomes for blacks relative to whites has slowed, and even worsened, over the past three decades. However, over this period the racial gap in well-being has shrunk. In the early 1970s data revealed much lower levels of subjective well-being...

The association between stature and favorable labor market outcomes has been extensively documented. Recent studies have attributed this height premium to cognitive and social skills. We offer an alternative explanation, where the premium mainly arises from the positive association between...

The negative association between obesity and labor market outcomes has been widely documented, yet little is known about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique data on 450,000 Swedish men enlisting for the military, we find that the crude obesity penalty in...

An extensive literature on labor-market outcomes by sexual orientation finds lower wages for gay men compared to heterosexual men and higher wages for lesbians compared to heterosexual women. Recent work looking over multiple time periods provides suggestive evidence, however, that the wage...