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High-skilled workers´ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities
(CAF, 2016-12)
The aim of this work is to study the relationship between high-skilled workers’ segregation and productivity in Latin American cities. This relationship is not clear at first sight. On the one hand high-skilled workers’ ...
City Size, Distance and Formal Employment Creation
(CAF, 2016-10-09)
Cities thrive through the diversity of their occupants because the availability of complementary skills enables firms in the formal sector to grow, delivering increasingly sophisticated products and services. The appearance ...
Housing Subsidies, Labor Supply and Household Welfare. Experimental Evidence from Argentina
(CAF, 2016-10)
We study the impact of a social housing policy program implemented in Argentina, exploiting the random assignment rule to identify the policy's causal effect on labor market and other socio-economic outcomes. In particular, ...
Moving “away" from Opportunities?: Homeownership and Employment
(CAF, 2016-07-10)
Homeownership is promoted by the majority of OECD member countries. Nevertheless, the impact that owning a house can have on employment levels is not fully understood. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of ...
Education, Signaling and Mismatch
(CAF, 2016-06)
We assess the importance education as a signal of workers skills and the e¤ects of poor signaling quality on labor market outcomes. We do so by merging a frictional labor market model with a signaling setup where there is ...
Los efectos de un programa de transferencias de ingresos en la ciudad de Buenos Aires
(CAF, 2015-06-01)
Las transferencias condicionadas de ingreso, ampliamente extendidas en América Latina, afectan decisiones económicas de sus beneficiarios y tienen impactos sobre distintas dimensiones de su bienestar. En este trabajo, ...
Losing health insurance when young: Impacts on usage of medical services and health
(CAF, 2015-04)
In this study we exploit a regulation in Colombia that exogenously changes health insurance coverage of young adult dependents, specifically those turning 18 years old, to analyze the effects of losing health insurance ...
The effect of property division laws on divorce and labor supply: evidence from Spain
(CAF, 2013)
I study how the relative bargaining position of spouses affects the incidence of marital dissolution and the labor supply decision of intact couples. I identify exogenous variation in bargaining position within the household ...
Job training, selection and self discovery
(CAF, 2013)
We randomly assign 1250 unemployed men and women to be invited once or twice to a specific-skills training program offered by a large multinational firm as part of its social responsibility efforts. Individuals with the ...
Young businesses, entrepreneurship, and the dynamics of employment and ouput in Colombia´s manufacturing industry
(CAF, 2012)
In this paper, we study the characteristics and growth dynamics of young businesses, and the contribution of these businesses to aggregate growth, in a developing economy: Colombia. Our study covers the 17 years between ...