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The Colombian reform to the health system (Law 100 of 1993) established, as strategy to facilitate the access, the universality of a health insurance that is acquired by means of the quotation in the contributive regime or by means of the gratuitous affiliation to the subsidized regime, in order...
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Using Human Capital and Signaling theories, this paper seeks to explain recent graduates' labor income in Colombia. Since usual household surveys do not provide specific information to analyze wage determinants (such as field of study, characteristics of the institution where the degree was...
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This paper describes the privatization program carried out in the productive sector of the Colombian economy during the 1990s. It evaluates privatization within the policy context of general market deregulation and the promotion of private investment in the provision of public infrastructure and...
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Applying Benefit Incidence Analysis we assessed the redistributive impact of public policies concerned with education in Bogotá. Though the household choices about public or private schooling are decentralized and respond to market constraints, the public provision policy of education achieves...
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Information about public education in Bogota is used in this article to evaluate the redistributive impact of subsidies using incidence analysis on income and expenditure by levels of strata and localities. Results indicate that education subsidies and new public policies have had strong...
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We assess the role played by advisory supervision on the early stage productivity of recent PhDs in economics using a tailor-made data set based on RePEc. After allowing for the potential effects of other relevant determinants, including gender and field of specialisation, we find as expected...
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This paper examines the linkage between two parallel stock exchanges trading the same shares in Colombia, namely the Bogotá Stock Exchange and the Medellín Stock Exchange. We provide empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that these two markets can be best described as fully integrated...
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