Using data from Medellín, the second-largest city in Colombia, in this paper, we assess how a set of neighborhood characteristics determines wages, and labor supply for workers in the city. We use GIS data to measure the quality of the environments in which workers live. The paper focuses on...

Using data from Medellín, second largest city in Colombia, we asses in this paper how a set of neighborhood characteristics determines wages and labor supply for workers in the city. We use GIS data to construct measures of the quality of environments where workers live. This paper focuses in...

This research estimates intertemporal and uncompensated elasticity in Uruguay, which is a developing country with an early demographic transition. We applied the specifications and econometric techniques used in Pencavel (2002) to estimate the supply elasticity over the life cycle (intertemporal...

El presente trabajo explora los determinantes de los diferenciales salarialespor género en Colombia en el período 1997-2003, utilizandola Encuesta de Calidad de Vida. La estimación fue realizada medianteregresiones por percentiles, a fi n de analizar los determinantes envarios puntos de la...

Este documento explora los determinantes de los diferenciales salariales por género en Colombia en el período 1997-2003, utilizando la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida. La estimación fue realizada mediante regresiones por percentiles, con el fin de analizar los determinantes en varios puntos de la...

This paper identifies and quantifies the effects of better transport accessibility on labour market outcomes. A 24 km new subway line and the extension of two existing lines in Santiago (Chile) in the mid-2000s reduced the distance between the subway network and 29 (out of 35) municipalities in...

The Republic of Mozambique is experiencing a significant social and economic change and needs an updated informative base to allow policy-makers to found their decision on reliable and comparable data. The fast development of the Non Observed Economy (NOE) was one of the most important...

This paper investigates the contribution of increasing travel times to the persistent gender gap in labor market participation. In doing so, we estimate the labor supply elasticity of commuting time from a sample of men and women in US cities using microdata from the Census for the last decades....

In this paper, we evaluate the effects of free pre-kindergarten (pre-K) programs on the labor force participation (LFP) of mothers. We use variation in pre-K rules across all US states, including income eligibility requirements in some states. To estimate the causal effects of access to pre-K on...

Die Covid-19-Pandemie hatte im Frühjahr 2020 massivere Arbeitsmarkteffekte als die Finanzkrise 2008/2009: Im Mai 2020 waren 8,5 Millionen Personen in Kurzarbeit oder arbeitslos, im Mai 2009 trotz höheren Ausgangsniveaus lediglich 4,9 Millionen. Die Branchen mit dem höchsten Arbeitsausfall...