Con la llegada de la democracia a partir de los años noventa, la economía chilena ha experimentado un crecimiento sostenido, comparable solo con los niveles alcanzados durante el periodo desarrollista, traducido en una tasa de crecimiento promedio de un 5,5% del PIB anual entre 1990 y 2007. A...

Resumen: Este documento usa información única sobre los graduados de pregrado de todas las instituciones de educación superior de Colombia en el año 2007, con el objetivo de analizar: i) la probabilidad de encontrar un empleo formal, y ii) los salarios de aquellos que encuentran dicho...

La existencia de la relación empírica entre salario y desempleo en Uruguay, se analizada en este trabajo. Se estiman varios modelos para el período 1986-2005 utilizando dos aproximaciones para medir el salario. Se obtiene una elasticidad de -0,09 entre desempleo y salarios. La elasticidad es...

We modify the standard trade model introducing the possibility of biased technological changes. This model help to explain the falling labor shares as well as the mixed changes in skill premium in developing countries after trade liberalization takes place.

We use place of birth information from the Social Security Administration linked to earnings data from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program and detailed race and ethnicity data from the 2010 Census to study how long-term earnings differentials vary by place of birth for different...

We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer-employee data covering the universe of German employees, we measure the degree of assortative matching as the correlation of worker and firm quality measures obtained from an AKM...

We leverage rich data from a prominent online job board in Uruguay to assess directed search patterns in job applications, focusing on posted wages and advertised non-wage amenities. We find robust evidence of directed search based on posted wages in the cross-section, with stark heterogeneity...

Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers facilitates labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine immigration's role in enabling U.S. commuting zones to respond to manufacturing job loss caused by import...

In this paper, I study the impact of financial integration on between-firm wage inequality using an unbalanced panel for 20 European countries over the period 1999-2021. With the impulse response functions estimated using local projections, I find that financial integration, as measured by the...

Do labour institutions influence how wages respond to the business cycle? Such responsiveness can then shape several economic outcomes, including unemployment. In this paper, we examine the role of two key labour market institutions - collective bargaining and temporary contracts - upon wage...