In June 2000 Colombia adopted a new definition of unemployment following the standards of the International Labour … Organisation (ILO). This change implied a reduction of the unemployment rate of about two (percentage) points. In this paper we … structural unemployment and its relationship to unemployment people's educational profile; therefore, they challenge the …

rates for Colombia for the period 1976 - 2012. The result is the first dataset capturing the evolution of vacancies for … Colombia and the first one covering such a long period for any developing country. We publish the series in the Additional file … between vacancies and unemployment with a structural change-an outward shift-around 1986. …

vacancy rates for Colombia. These series will allow tackling a myriad of questions related to the functioning of the labor …

This paper studies the duration of unemployment in Colombia as an indicator of the effectivity of search methods. This … work is based on the Continuing Survey of Households (ECH), carried out in Colombia in the second quarter of 2006 … the duration of unemployment is strongly influenced by the search methods used by employees and the unemployed. Formal …

shocks and selection, I find that the exit hazard rates into and out of unemployment increased after the reform by over 1 … implies a net decrease in unemployment of a third of a percentage point, which accounts for about one quarter of the fall in … unemployment during the period of study …

This paper estimates the determinants of the unemployment durations, and assesses the efficiency on job search in … Cartagena, Colombia, using data from the Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares of the National Administrative Department of … unemployment prolongs, people get out of it faster. Gender, experience, and the search method determine the output rate (OR) of the …

shocks and selection, I find that the exit hazard rates into and out of unemployment increased after the reform by over 1 … implies a net decrease in unemployment of a third of a percentage point, which accounts for about one quarter of the fall in … unemployment during the period of study …

Unemployment has been an important issue in Colombia because of the high rates observed since the 1980's, yet few … disparities and long-term relations between the unemployment rates of the seven largest cities in Colombia. First, a dispersion … unemployment rates disparities. When the economy slows down (grows) the disparities tend to decrease (increase). The cointegration …

Beveridge curve and use the vacancy rate to forecast unemployment. This first look at the series yields sensible results, while …

2011 for urban areas in Colombia and a differences-in-differences approach, we find that unemployment rates of those …, proxied by their respective unemployment rates, on the labor market of Colombian cities with high migration tradition. These … areas with high and moderate migration tradition. In a second stage, we provide evidence that unemployment rates of those …