The objective of this article consists of analyzing the impact of the economic on working careers of different birth cohorts. We use the micro-data of the Spanish Labour Force Survey from 1976 to 2013 to calculate the labour market trajectory of men and women by birth cohort. During the crisis,...

La baja participación de los hogares más vulnerables en los servicios públicos sigue siendo uno de los grandes desafíos para el diseño e implementación de políticas. Existe una vasta literatura documentando los beneficios de la educación inicial para cerrar inequidades y brechas en el...

En este documento se presentan los principales resultados de la evaluación de impacto del programa Hogares Comunitarios de Bienestar del ICBF. Durante el año 2007 el equipo de la Universidad de los Andes y PROFAMILIA recolectó información sobre 28,000 niños entre participantes y potenciales...

Maternity, paternity and parental leaves, as well as policies to support breastfeeding in the workplace, such as breastfeeding breaks and rooms, are a fundamental part of comprehensive social protection systems and early childhood development strategies. The study at hand compares current leave...

With data from survey 3178 of the Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas on Social Mobility and Inequality, we analyze the explanatory factors of mobility. Mobility is measured by comparing the interviewee's occupation with that of the father when he was 16 years old. We classify individuals...

We propose to create a multi-pillar system by merging the public and private pension systems. In this system, part of the worker’s contribution goes to a “solidarity fund” and the remaining is accrued in his individual capitalization account. This fund will finance a targeted minimum...