Este estudio estimó la forma funcional de producción cafetera en Colombia mediante fronteras estocásticas (FEP). Con esto, se analizó la importancia de los principales insumos empleados en la producción de café (cantidad de hectáreas cultivadas, mano de obra utilizada, maquinaria...

This document studies the effects of business informality in terms of distortions in resource absorption, particularly labor, by informal companies. It also assesses the consequences of lower demand for labor of informal firms over aggregate productivity. With firm level data from the DANE...

This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matchingcomparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capitalcharacteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the first...

In the 1970´s there was a serious crisis in the world economy and a deep dissatisfactionwith the state of economic theory. Between 1976 and 1979 Colombian economist DiegoPizano conducted a series of structured dialogues with some of the greatest economists of the second half of the 20th...

Este trabajo implementa la metodología de detección de copia en exámenes de múltiples opciones expuesta en Sotaridona, van der Linden y Meijer [2006] basada en el índice Kappa de Cohen. Presentamos los resultados de aplicar esta metodología a las pruebas del Estado ICFES 2009 II. Este es,...

Consider a game with a continuum of players where only a finite number of them are atomic. Objective functions and admissible strategies may depend on the actions chosen by atomic players and on aggregate information about the actions chosen by non-atomic players. Only atomic players are...

A lo largo de la historia económica moderna, los salarios reales han sido un buen indicador del nivel de vida material de la clase trabajadora. Este documento presenta series de salarios reales para diferentes sectores y épocas en Colombia. Apoyándonos en datos compilados por varios autores,...

This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matchingcomparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capitalcharacteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the first...