Listar 6.1 Documentos de trabajo en investigación socioeconómica por título
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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 al financiamiento de la pequeña y mediana empresa en Colombia: retos de política pública
(CAF; Caracas, 2011)Este artículo presenta de manera resumida las reflexiones y hallazgos de trabajos previos sobre el acceso al financiamiento de PYMES con el propósito de que la discusión de aspectos del caso Colombiano sirva para aportar ... -
Access to Financing of SMEs in Argentina
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)In this paper, we examine SMEs in Argentina in search for a measurement of those who are credit constrained. We also estimate a model for the determinants of credit rejection taking into account those that are self-excluded. ... -
An exploratory study of entrepeneurial ventures in Argentina, their financing and first years' growth
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)This is a study of entrepreneurial ventures in Argentina, in particular regarding their finance and growth in their early years. We sample young manufacturing SMEs (i.e., with an average of six years and a maximum of ten ... -
Are Taxes Credits Effective in Developing Countries? The Recent Uruguayan Experience
(CAF; Caracas, 2017-05-17)Investment promotion through tax incentives has been a key component of the growth strategies pursued in Uruguay by the last three administrations. A new regime was established, regulated by the Executive Decree 455, which ... -
Banking Services Supply and Micro Firm Performance: Evidence from Colombia
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)This paper uses a dataset of a survey of Colombian micro firms from 2003 to 2007 in combination with data from publicly available sources about banking services supply at the municipality level, to assess the impact of the ... -
Benefits to Elite Schools and the Expected Returns to Education: Evidence from Mexico City
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-03-10)We exploit data on the future earnings students at high school completion expect to receive with and without a college education, together with information on learning achievement and college outcomes, to study the benefits ... -
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 ... -
Business Cycles in Emerging Markets: the Role of Durable Goods and Financial Frictions
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)There is a growing literature studying business cycles in emerging economies. This paper contributes to this literature by examining how durable goods and financial frictions shape cyclical fluctuations in a small open ... -
Can a Mining Windfall Improve Welfare? Evidence from Peru with Municipal Level Data
(CAF; Caracas, 2012)In this paper we investigate whether fiscal performance is affected by the presence of natural resource revenues. We compare policy outcomes from mineral-abundant municipalities and non mineral-abundant municipalities in ... -
Canon minero y decisiones fiscales subnacionales en el Perú
(CAF; Caracas, 2010)Este trabajo estudia el impacto del canon minero en las prácticas fiscales sub-nacionales en Perú. En particular se explorara si el régimen de distribución de fondos asociados a la actividad minera ha promovido o no la ... -
Capital Controls and Firm Performance: The Effects of the Chilean Encaje
(CAF; Santiago de Chile, 2017-11-30)This paper studies the effects of the capital controls imposed by Chile between 1991 and 1998, i.e. the Chilean encaje, on firms' production, investment and exporting decisions. We use a general equilibrium model with ... -
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 ... -
Characterizing Fuel Choices and Fuelwood Use for Residential Heating and Cooking in Urban Areas of Central-Southern Chile: the Role of Prices, Income, and the Availability of Energy Sources and Technology
(CAF; Caracas, 2017-04-24)This paper analyzes empirically the determinants of fuel choices and intensity of fuelwood use for residential heating and cooking in central-southern Chile. By using information from a sample of 2,761 households in nine ... -
City Size, Distance and Formal Employment Creation
(CAF; Caracas, 2016-10-09)Cities thrive through the diversity of their occupants because the availability of complementary skills enables firms in the formal sector to grow, delivering increasingly sophisticated products and services. The appearance ... -
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 ... -
Contracting the Road to Development: Early Impacts of a Rural Roads Program
(CAF; Caracas, 2009)We studied here the early impacts of the Peruvian rural roads program (RRP) that is characterized by the contracting of private local firms for the rehabilitation and maintenance of rural roads with local supervision by ... -
Corruption, Custom Reform and Firm Growth: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Colombia
(CAF; Buenos Aires, 2017-11-15)Customs are often prone to corruption because it concentrates a lot of discretionary power in the hand of custom agents who take decisions with high economic stakes for the firms, providing an opportunity for custom agents ...
