This paper uses administrative employer-employee matched data and survey data to examine the effects of a policy that allowed part-time contributions to social security in Colombia, addressing the disparities in the regulatory costs across different work schedules. We find that the reform...

This paper explains the strategic penetration through mergers and acquisitions in international financial large corporate in emerging countries like Mexico and the clash of European and Mexican management cultures. As a case study is taken as a basis, the merger and consolidation of the Spanish...

Spanish Abstract: La creciente urbanización latinoamericana de las últimas décadas ha inducido mayor demanda de vehículos y congestión de tráfico. Con el fin de aliviar los costos de la congestión, se han adoptado medidas polémicas que restringen la circulación del 20% al 40% de los...

This paper explains the strategic penetration through mergers and acquisitions in international financial large corporate in emerging countries like Mexico and the clash of European and Mexican management cultures. As a case study is taken as a basis, the merger and consolidation of the Spanish...

Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en Acción, the Colombian CCT program on crime, teenage...

Conditional Cash transfer (CCT) programs have been shown to have positive effects on a variety of outcomes including education, consumption and health visits, amongst others. We estimate the long-run impacts of the urban version of Familias en Acción, the Colombian CCT program on crime,...

The authors present matching estimators of the impact on earnings for individuals who attended public and private job training programs in Colombia. They estimate propensity scores by controlling for the variety of personal and socioeconomic background variables of those individuals. The effect...