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Determinantes de los niveles de integración regional en las dos últimas décadas
(CAF, 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 ...
Igualdad de oportunidades educativas: un indicador sencillo para América Latina
(CAF, 2021-12-07)
Este documento presenta estimaciones para América Latina de un indicador simple de igualdad de oportunidades educativas que mide el grado en que las variables de entorno familiar (ingreso y educación de los padres) dan ...
Surnames and Social Rank: Long-term Traits of Social Mobility in Colombia and Chile
(CAF, 2021-12-16)
In the last two years, Colombia and Chile have witnessed strong social protests, characterized by slogans against inequality and the lack of social mobility. In this study we propose a comparative study on social mobility ...
Local externalities in labor markets: congestion and information flow among peers
(CAF, 2020-12-16)
We explore local externalities in labor markets, exploiting the random assignment of a large-scale internship program in Argentina. Examining the probability of registered employment in the 12 months after the program, we ...
Gender Gaps in Labor Informality: The Motherhood Effect
(CAF, 2020-12-15)
We estimate the short- and long-run labor market impacts of parenthood in a developing country, Chile, based on an eventstudy approach around the birth of the first child. We assess mechanisms behind these effects based ...
Who attract the public sector compensation schemes?: evidence from Latin America
(CAF, 2021-12-22)
Compensation schemes tend to differ markedly between public and private sector jobs, which can affect the relative preferences of potential employees towards those jobs. We explore this through two informational experiments ...
Heterogeneous effects of automation: How are young workers affected by a changing labor market?
(CAF, 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 ...