This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capital characteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the...

We study the use of labour markets to mitigate the impact of violent shocks on households in rural areas. Because the incidence of violent shocks is not exogenous, the analysis uses instrumental variables. As a response to violent shocks men decrease the time they devote to off-farm agricultural...

This paper studies the use of labor markets to mitigate the impact of violent shocks on households in rural areas in Colombia. It examines changes in the labor supply from on-farm to off-farm labor as a means of coping with the violent shock and the ensuing redistribution of time within...

Despite the remarkable improvement of female labor market characteristics, a sizeable gender wage gap exists in Colombia. We employ quantile regression techniques to examine the degree to which current small differences in the distribution of observable characteristics can explain the gender...

Este artículo estudia el impacto de los aumentos en los costos no salariales y el salario mínimo sobre los salarios en los sectores formal e informal en Colombia durante el periodo 1988 a 2006. La estrategia de identificación incluye variación de los costos no salariales en el tiempo; y...

El presente trabajo analiza el efecto del número y de la estructura de edades de los hijos sobre los salarios de las mujeres en Colombia. Las madres ganan en promedio 17.6% menos que las no madres. Como no todas las mujeres participan en el mercado laboral,existen potenciales problemas de...

We study the effect of UI benefits in a typical developing country where the informal sector is sizeable and persistent. In a partial equilibrium environment we characterize the stationary equilibrium of an economy where policyholders may be employed in the formal sector, short-run unemployed...