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Do Micro-Entrepreneurship Programs increase wage-work? evidence from Chile
(Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2015-06)
Using a randomized controlled trial of a large-scale, publicly run micro-entrepreneurship program in
Chile, we assess the effectiveness of business training and asset transfers to the poor. Using survey
and monthly ...
Informal wages in an economy with active labor courts
(2012-09-12)
In most developing countries, job regulations and the justice branch interfere on several aspects of labor contracts. Inspired by this fact, we build a model that explores the role of labor courts in the determination of ...
Motherhood wage penalties and labour market segmentation: Evidence from Argentina
(2013-12)
This article explores the connection between labour market segregation and
motherhood wage penalties in Argentina across the formal and informal sectors. It
uses ordinary least square and quantile regression estimation ...
Wage rigidity in Chile
(2006-12)
One issue in the debate about the workings of the labour market is its degree of flexibility. In the case of Chile, the Asian crisis of late 1997 led to a large increase in the unemployment rate, while the hourly wage index ...
An approximation to the informal-formal wage gap in Colombia 2008-2012
(Universidad del RosarioFacultad de Economía, 2013)
This document provides recent evidence about the persistency of wage gaps between formal and informal workers in Colombia by using a non-parametric method proposed by Ñopo (2008a). Over a rich dataset at a household level ...
El mercado de trabajo
(2016-01-31)
This material shows the operation of the labor market. Analyzes the labor supply and demand in order to provide elements that lead us to explain the economic problem of involuntary unemployment according to the neoclassical ...
Millennials and the gender wage gap: Do millennial women face a glass ceiling?
(Universidad EAFITEscuela de Economía y Finanzas, 2020-09-10)
This study aims to measure the gender wage gap among millennial workers in Colombia and determine if there is a marked wage difference between millennial women and men. Further, this study analyzes whether millennial women ...
Labor earnings dynamics in post-stabilization Brazil
(2015-06-15)
This paper analyzes both the levels and evolution of wage inequality in the Brazilian formal labor market using administrative data from the Brazilian Ministry of Labor (RAIS) from 1994 to 2009. After the covariance structure ...
On the Determinants of Changes in Wage Inequality in Bolivia
(Universidad EAFITEscuela de Economía y Finanzas, 2015-03-01)
In recent years, Bolivia has experienced a series of economic and political transformations that have directly affected the labor markets, particularly the salaried urban sector. Real wages have shown strong increases ...