The evidence of gender pay gap is present in the Colombian labor market, as in many other countries. This gap is not homogeneous in the territory, which provides the rationale for a detailed analysis of what is happening in each of the regions of the country. The results show differentials of...

El Centro de Estudios Económicos Regionales, CEER, del Banco de la República fue creado en 1997 con el objetivo de generar información y estudios económicos actualizados sobre el Caribe colombiano y también para evitar concentrar el esfuerzo investigativo del Banco en Bogotá. Este...

The main purpose of this article is to analyze the commercial activities in La Guajira, Colombia, as well as the in titutional and geographical constraints traders faced between 1870s and 1930s. The result that La Guajira developed a frontier economy, characterized by a weak institutional...

By using census data from 1835 to 2005 this paper studies the urban hierarchy in Colombia and its regions. This document focuses on three issues: 1. the city size distribution by means of Zipf's law and Gibrat's law; 2. the shifts in the population growth models; 3. the empirical validation of...