Browsing 6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica by Subject "Productividad"
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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, ... -
Capital Specificity, the Distribution of Marginal Products and Aggregate Productivity
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-05-08)This paper studies the role of capital specificity and investment irreversibility on the distribution of marginal products of capital and aggregate TFP. We use a methodology new to the misallocation literature, based on ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Education, signaling and the allocation of entrepreneurial skills
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-02)We assess the allocative importance of education when workers can choose to self-employ. To do so, we build a model combining educational choices with the labor market and selfemployment. Education can increase workers' ... -
Evaluación de políticas públicas de apoyo a la innovación sobre la productividad de las empresas manufactureras y de servicios en Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2017-12-01)La presente investigación tiene como objetivo analizar el efecto de los instrumentos de apoyo público a la innovación sobre el desempeño productivo y la inversión en innovación de las empresas manufactureras y de servicios ... -
Family Rules: Nepotism in the Mexican Judiciary
(CAF; Caracas, 2021-10-19)We show that bureaucrats can exploit discretion in hiring decisions to engage in forms of favoritism that hinder organizational performance. We do this in the context of the Mexican federal judiciary. The arrival of a judge ... -
Financial Frictions, Trade, and Misallocation
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-07)We investigate the extent to which financial frictions shape the aggregate effects of a trade liberalization through their impact on aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) and capital misallocation. We study a small ... -
Heterogeneous effects of automation: How are young workers affected by a changing labor market?
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-08-18)We study the effect of automation on labor market outcomes with a focus on young workers and the case of Chile. We develop an index of routine task content of each occupation and follow two approaches. First we study the ... -
Input-output linkages and sector-specific distortions in the Latin American development problem
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-03)In this paper, I analyze the Latin American development problem using a model with input-output linkages, sectorial productivity gaps, and sector-specific distortions. I provide a characterization of the sectorial linkages ... -
Jobs’ amenability is not enough: The role of household inputs for safe work under social distancing in Latin American cities
(CAF; Caracas, 2020-06-01)The recent literature has emphasized the role of occupations in quantifying the amount of telework possible under social distancing measures during the COVID-19 outbreak. However, telework requires not only a teleworkable ... -
Microdatos para el estudio de la productividad en América Latina
(CAF; Caracas, 2018-07)La creciente disponibilidad de microdatos empresariales ha permitido a los investigadores indagar sobre el papel que la heterogeneidad entre las empresas o establecimientos productivos juega para explicar la productividad ... -
Money can buy me life. The Effect of a Basic Pension on Mortality: a Regression Discontinuity Design
(Caracas, 2018-06-12)This paper estimates the effect of a permanent income increase for the elderly on their health outcomes. Our regression discontinuity design exploits an eligibility cutoff in a Chilean basic pension program that grants ... -
People or places: the causes of spatial income differences in Brazil
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)This paper explores testable implications of a simple model of spatial heterogeneity in earnings, a model in which this spatial heterogeneity arises both from differences in the places that people work and differences among ... -
The Economic Preferences of Cooperative Managers
(CAF; Caracas, 2019-05-02)A growing body of research has been investigating the role of management practices and managerial behaviour in conventional private firms and public sector organizations. However, little is known about managers’ behavioural ... -
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment in Brazil
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-16)During the economic boom of the early 2000s, most Latin American countries increased their minimum wages. In Brazil, the real minimum wage increased by upwards of 60 percent from 2003 through 2012. In this paper, we take ... -
The Life-cycle Growth of Plants in Colombia: Fundamentals vs. Distortions
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-10-05)We take advantage of rich microdata on Colombian manufacturing establishments to decompose growth over an establishment’s life cycle into that attributable to fundamental sources of idiosyncratic growth ̶ physical productivity, ... -
Trade Integration in Colombia: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Study with New Exporter Dynamics
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-08-01)We study Colombia’s trade integration over a 30 year period through the lens of GE model in which non-exporters have access to a risky exporting technology and exporters must invest in accumulating a better exporting ... -
Transportation infrastructure and productivity: evidence from Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2008)This paper analyses the role of transport infrastructure in determining plant level TFP. We calculate TFP from the annual manufacturing surveys using accounting and econometric procedures. We find that differential access ...
