Población venezolana en la localidad de Usme: Caracterización de los migrantes atendidos por la Arquidiócesis de Bogotá
La Arquidiócesis de Bogotá presta servicios de atención a los migrantes desde hace 25 años. Originalmente orientó sus programas a la población desplazada en Colombia; en los últimos años la ha orientado a los migrantes venezolanos que desde el 2015 han entrado al país. El número de venezolanos en Bogotá, según cifras oficiales de Migración […]
Lógicas burocráticas y trabajo informal: Experiencias migratorias de venezolanos en un barrio del occidente de Bogotá
La experiencia de los migrantes venezolanos está mediada por su condición de población en tránsito dentro de los flujos migratorios internacionales. Es decir, son personas que se mueven a través de las fronteras de los Estados-nación en busca de empleo y de mejores condiciones laborales. Ahora, etnográficamente en esta tesis yo no hago un seguimiento […]
Agglomeration and Skills: Explaining Regional Wage Disparities in Colombia
This article aims to analyze the differences in regional labor markets in Colombia based on new theories that integrate the analysis of occupational characteristics of the workforce, urban agglomeration, and specialization patterns. In this way, it contributes to the Colombian literature since i) it adapts the classification of occupations, an important input to understanding the […]
The internal labor marketsof business groups
This paper provides micro evidence of labor mobility inside business groups. We show that worker flows between firms in the same group are stronger than with unaffiliated firms. More over, the reallocation of top workers between group firms is more sensitive to international shocks. Top workers that move within the group in response to shocks […]
The fertility-inhibiting effect of mosquitoes: Socio-economic differences in response to the Zika crisis in Colombia
We estimated the impact of the Zika virus outbreak on birth rates and demand for health care services in Colombia. Our analysis exploits the variation in the level of natural protection against mosquito transmitted diseases across the country. This characteristic induced exogenous variation in Zika incidence, which allows us to construct a control group of […]
Price elasticity of demandfor voluntary health insurance plans in Colombia
Background: Since 1993, Colombia has had a mandatory social health insurance scheme that aims to provide universal health coverage to all citizens. However, some contributory regime participants purchase voluntary private health insurance (VPHI) to access better quality health services (i. e., physicians and hospitals), shorter waiting times, and a more extensive providers’ network. This article […]
Human capital, innovationand productivity in Colombian enterprises: astructural approach usinginstrumental variables
In this paper we explore the R&D–innovation–productivity linkage for the Colombian manufacturing industry, paying special attention to the role of human capital. Using data from two firm-level surveys, the Survey of Development and Technological Innovation (EDIT) and the Annual Manufacturing Survey (EAM), we extend the model of Crépon, Duguet, and Mairesse [1998. ‘Research, Innovation and […]
Conexiones y capital socialo por qué la información devacantes no llega a quienesla necesitan
Resumen Entre un 50% y un 60% de los trabajadores encuentran empleo con información que proporcionan amigos, familiares o conocidos. En una simulación en red, estudiamos cómo evoluciona el número de trayectorias por las que se transfiere información sobre vacantes cuando se suma un nuevo nodo, teniendo en cuenta su estatus laboral, su capital social […]
Bounded learning by doing,inequality, and multi-sectorgrowth: A middle-class perspective.
This paper develops a multi-sector model of middle-class-led economic growth, whereby (i) learning by doing interacts with scale economies and nonhomothetic preferences giving rise to endogenous growth, and (ii) the “middle class” label is an endogenous outcome of the model, depending on past economic growth. The emphasis is placed on the entire income distribution, which […]
Crime and education in a model of information transmission
We model the decisions of young individuals to stay in school or drop out and engage in criminal activities. We build on the literature on human capital and crime engagement and use the framework of Banerjee (1993) that assumes that the information needed to engage in crime arrives in the form of a rumour and […]