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Heterogeneous effects of forced migration on female labor supply

Pedrazzi, Julian; Peñaloza-Pacheco, Leonardo - 2021

In this paper we analyze the impact of Venezuelan migration on the female labor supply in Colombia. Using a …

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Exports "brother-boost": The trade-creation and skill-upgrading effect of Venezuelan forced migration on Colombian manufacturing firms

Lombardo, Carlo; Peñaloza-Pacheco, Leonardo - 2021

This paper studies the impact of a massive skilled labor supply shock on Colombian manufacturing firms' exports, the Venezuelan exodus. We exploit cross-sectional and time variability of Venezuelan forced migrants' settlements in Colombian sub-national areas through an enclave instrumental...

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Informal labor markets in times of pandemic: Evidence for Latin America and policy options

Leyva, Gustavo; Urrutia, Carlos - 2021

We document the evolution of labor markets of five Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, with emphasis on informal employment. We show, for most countries, a slump in aggregate employment, mirrored by a fall in labor participation, and a decline in the informality rate. The...

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Increasing access to formal agricultural credit: The role of collective action organizations

Benson, Allison; Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2021

.3 million farmers in Colombia, as well as a fixed effects model using original data on 15,000 municipality-year observations of …

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Quantifying COVID-19's silver lining: Avoided deaths from air quality improvements in Bogotá

Blackman, Allen; Bonilla, Jorge A.; Villalobos, Laura - 2021

In cities around the world, Covid-19 lockdowns have improved outdoor air quality, in some cases dramatically. Even if only temporary, these improvements could have longer-lasting effects on policy by making chronic air pollution more salient and boosting political pressure for change. To that...

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Breathe easy, there's an app for that: Using information and communication technology to avoid air pollution in Bogotá

Blackman, Allen; Hoffmann, Bridget - 2021

limited. We conduct a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the impact of training university students in Bogotá, Colombia …

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Assessing the impact of corporate entrepreneurship in the financial performance of subsidiaries of Colombian business groups: Under environmental dynamism moderation

Rodríguez-Peña, Antonio - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-27

Corporate entrepreneurship creates opportunities in employment, technological advances, value creation, and cultural transformation for entrepreneurial ecosystems, entrepreneurs, governments, economies, and society around the globe. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of corporate...

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Richard Musgrave in Colombia: The art of tax reform in a developing country

Desmarais-Tremblay, Maxime - 2022

little historical scrutiny. Musgrave was the chief economist of the 1949 World Bank mission to Colombia chaired by Lauchlin … Currie. Twenty years later, he himself chaired an import fiscal reform mission in Colombia, the report of which served as a … intellectual baggage that Musgrave brought on his travels to Colombia. It situates his policy recommendations in the context of the …

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A conceptual and theoretical framework for progressive political candidates in Colombia

Lascarro, Lorena Eloisa; León Tamayo, Dorian Fernando - 2022

perspective or approach to social and economic policy that is in tune with the postulates of a Colombia World Power of Life? In …

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Trust, violence, and coca

Rubio, Melissa - 2022

violence on social capital presented in the literature. I study this question in the context of Colombia by exploiting changes … the presence of drug cartels in Colombia during the Escobar and Cali era. …

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