This article presents an index of the work quality for Santiago de Cali (Colombia). Our results show that the "comunas" with higher quality are 17, 19, 22 and, 2. "Comunas" 13, 21, 15,3, 7, 20 present poor quality of the work. In this way we show spatiality patterns of the work quality. Also,...

En éste documento Jhon James Mora y Carlos Giovanni González buscan, desde una perspectiva analítica, entender cuáles son las problemáticas que enfrenta la sociedad caleña en materia de empleo y plantean una serie de estrategias de generación de empleo digno desde la política pública...

En éste documento Juan Esteban Carranza, Ximena Dueñas Herrera y Carlos Giovanni González pretenden mostrar de una forma casi formal, que los datos agregados revelan cómo la violencia homicida en Colombia es un resultado del ciclo económico. Para el análisis de la causalidad se usa una...

En econometría es necesario el uso continuo de un software especializado tanto en la docencia como en la investigación aplicada. De ahí que el objetivo de este documento sea introducir al lector en el manejo de Stata, posiblemente el software econométrico más popular y con las herramientas...

This article discusses how the conditions of the socioeconomic environment affect mobility at the secondary, middle and upper levels of education. Our analysis focuses on the influence of parents' educational level to evaluate intergenerational mobility in education. Using a logit model of...

This article analyzes the effect of the municipality on the academic result of the Colombian State test student "Saber 11". From linear hierarchical models with quantile regression, our results suggest that the type of municipality has a significant effect on students' academic achievement in...

In the context of the team's theory, this article shows that employees will be communicated, independent of their skill endowment, have a high skill endowment. In this way, the formation teams can lead to groups whose productivity is lower than that exhibited in terms of the skills they...

In the presence of selection bias the traditional estimators for pseudo panel data models are inconsistent. This paper discusses a method to achieve consistency in static linear pseudo panels in the presence of selection bias and a testing procedure for sample selection bias. The authors'...

This paper provides a microeconometric analysis of the distinctive characteristics of springboard subsidiaries that have a positive impact on the subsidiaries' performance. Based on panel data estimations for subsidiaries of European multinational companies with a presence in Spain, the authors...

In this article we estimate the wage gap between white people and Afro-American people in Cali by using data from the survey of employment and quality of life of 2013. The estimation is weighted by the number of individuals that recognize themselves as Afro-American as a measure of statis- tical...