Resumen: Este artículo analiza el proceso de implementación del concepto de informalidad en el análisis del mercado laboral colombiano. A la luz de dicho concepto, abordamos la evolución de la informalidad laboral en Colombia, sus principales componentes y características. Utilizando...

This research analyzes short-run payroll dynamics associated with the maquiladora export sector of Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Parameter estimation is carried out using linear transfer function ARIMA analysis. In contrast to other metropolitan economies for which similar econometric analyses...

The literature on foreign direct investment has analyzed firms٠location decisions when they invest in R&D to reduce production costs. Such firms may set up new plants in other developed countries while maintaining their domestic plants. In contrast, here we consider firms that close down their...

A vast field to understand the individual economic behavior, apart from the different variants which are considered within the theory of the consumer, are the moral and social values, legal or in any kind of norm in a society. This actual study analyses the incorporation of these topics known as...

The 2004 enlargement of the European Union (EU), as well as the further enlargements planned from 2007 onwards (Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey), entail changes of a geo-political nature that not only imply an increase in size (a rise in the number of States, new boundaries), but, more...

Resumen: en 2009 América Latina vive un proceso electoral agitado: siete elecciones presidenciales, dos referendos y tres elecciones legislativas, así lo evidencian. Sin embargo, son las elecciones presidenciales las que mayor interés despiertan, debido a la ola reeleccionista que agita a la...

El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en analizar las diferencias en el reporte de los accidentes conocidos dentro de la literatura como de difícil diagnóstico entre la población nacional e inmigrante. El fin de utilizar este tipo de accidentes es que en ellos puede parecer más verosímil que...

The sinking of the Prestige oil-tanker and the implementation of the Ulysses plan to control new flows of migrants by sea give new significance to the establishment of sea boundaries, with the emphasis changing from the original economic factors to others more security linked. At the same time,...

The paper examines the 1947 monetary stabilization in Italy, tracing the domestic and international political dynamics that allowed ideas and theoretical concepts developed within the Bank of Italy to be applied in a successful action to subdue spiraling inflation. The combination of events and...