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A Taxonomy of Colombia’s Informal Labor Market
(Caracas, 2016)A taxonomy of the informal labor market is extremely important to understand and handle informality, particularly in a country as Colombia where this phenomenon is large and heterogeneous. As we will argue in this paper, ... -
Acceso y consumo de energía residencial en América Latina y el Caribe
(CAF; Caracas, 2023-12-29)Este trabajo estima el acceso de los hogares latinoamericanos a distintas fuentes de energía (modernas y no modernas), así también como el gasto asociado a su consumo. En particular, se estudia cómo difiere el acceso a lo ... -
Análisis de demanda de empleo verde a partir de información de vacantes para América Latina y el Caribe en el contexto de la transición energética
(CAF- banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe; Distrito Capital, 2023-12-11)La transición verde representa una de las fuerzas de transformación más significativas del mercado laboral en los próximos años. Esta tendencia del mercado laboral asociada a la transición verde se ha enmarcado en el estudio ... -
Asymmetric Effects of Trade and FDI: The Role of Country Size and Bridge Multinational Production
(2022-12-13)Total gains from openness come through three channels: (i) trade, (ii) domestic multinational production (DMP), and (iii) bridge multinational production (BMP). We develop a quantitative theory to measure the effects of ... -
Bimodal Transport Infrastructure and Regional Development: Evidence from Argentina, 1960 - 1991
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-04-13)We estimate the impact of railroad and road infrastructure on local economic development through the study of massive transport infrastructure changes in Argentina. Following a World Bank study, 10,000 kilometers of railroads ... -
Brecha de habilidades de los jóvenes en el mercado laboral colombiano
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-07-21)La brecha de habilidades entre la oferta y la demanda laboral explica parcialmente la desfavorable situación laboral de los jóvenes. Este estudio mide el desajuste entre las habilidades que requiere la demanda de trabajo ... -
Bureaucratic turnover across levels of government
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-11-19)The incidence of patronage can vary widely across levels of gov ernment within a country. We show this in the context of Brazil, which has been the focus of most recent research on patronage. In particular, we find that ... -
Comparing Protection Types in The Peruvian Amazon: Multiple-Use Protected Areas Did No Worse for Forests
(2022-12-20)Protected areas (PAs), which restrict economic activities, are the leading land and marine policy for ecosystem conservation. Most contexts feature different types of protection that vary in their stringency of management. ... -
Conflicting Incentives: Government Financial Aid, Vocational-to-University Track Change and Graduates’ Wages in Chile
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-10-16)Although literature on education economic returns is not un- common, research focusing in vocational students is quite scarce. This paper addresses labor market outcomes of vocational high schools’ students and their ... -
Crime Perceptions and Reality in Latin America
(CAF; Caracas, 2014)We show that perceptions of insecurity are strongly correlated with victimization at the individual level and suggest that the reason this relationship is usually not uncovered in simple cross country studies is that they ... -
Criminal Dominance and Campaign Concentration
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-01-1)There are many journalistic and anecdotal accounts about the prevalence of electoral corrals in Brazil, geographic areas where brokers, politicians, or community leaders influence residents to vote for a specific candidate. ... -
Decentralisation and Local and Regional Development
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)Este artículo explora el impacto de la descentralización sobre el potencial para el desarrollo local y regional, tanto desde una perspectiva teórica como utilizando ejemplos de América Latina. Pone de relieve que la ... -
Decentralizing Development: Evidence from Government Splits
(2024-07)Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting ... -
Decisiones laborales en América Latina: el caso de los emprendedores
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)Los países de América Latina han experimentado fuertes transformaciones en sus mercados laborales, las cuales han tenido consecuencias en términos sociales y productivos. Analizar al mercado laboral, y en particular a las ... -
Del dato administrativo de firmas al dato estadístico: desafíos a vencer en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-10-20)El diseño, la implementación y la evaluación de las políticas públicas para el fomento de la productividad requieren cada vez más información estadística oportuna y de calidad. En los últimos veinte años, y especialmente ... -
Desafíos regulatorios en la incorporación de energías renovables
(CAF; Caracas, 2023-12-29)La transición hacia una matriz energética libre de emisiones de gases invernadero presenta múltiples desafíos desde el punto regulatorio. Primero, será necesario proveer los incentivos para que haya capacidad de generación ... -
Determinantes de los niveles de integración regional en las dos últimas décadas
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-09-09)La hipótesis principal del trabajo es que el mal desempeño de América Latina en términos de comercio intrarregional se explica por los altos niveles de costos comerciales. Se construyó una base de datos para el período ... -
Difference-in-Differences in Equilibrium: Evidence from Placed-Based Policies
(CAF- banco de desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe; Distrito Capital, 2023-12-26)Violations of the stable unit treatment value assumption (SUTVA) are a common threat to identification of the effects of policies causing the resorting of agents between treated and untreated groups. We show that in such ... -
Does Increasing Public Spending in Health Improve Health? Lessons from a Constitutional Reform in Brazil
(2024-09-26)There is surprisingly scarce evidence regarding the extent to which and how government health expenditure affects health outcomes. Exploiting variation generated by Brazil’s 29th Constitutional Amendment, which mandated ... -
Does it Matter Where You Grow up? Childhood Exposure Effects in Latin America and the Caribbean
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-12-15)I study whether the observed differences in intergenerational educational mobility across regions in Latin America and the Caribbean are due to the sorting of families or the effect of grow ing up in these different places. ...
