Despite the remarkable improvement of female labor market characteristics, a sizeable gender wage gap exists in Colombia. We employ quantile regression techniques to examine the degree to which current small differences in the distribution of observable characteristics can explain the gender...

Despite the remarkable improvement of female labor market characteristics, a sizeablegender wage gap exists in Colombia. We employ quantile regression techniques to examine the degree to which current small differences in the distribution of observablecharacteristics can explain the gender gap....

Despite the remarkable improvement of female labor market characteristics, a sizeable gender wage gap exists in Colombia. We employ quantile regression techniques to examine the degree to which current small differences in the distribution of observable characteristics can explain the gender...

We characterize entrepreneurship in developing economies through a case study for Colombia. We document self-employment and business ownership since the 1980s; while the relative size of these groups within the labor force is stable across time, they differ significantly in important observable...

En el caso del transporte aéreo de pasajeros en Colombia, existe una preocupación acerca de larelación entre competencia, concentración de la industria y precios de los tiquetes aéreos. Dadaslas características del mercado (bajo número de firmas, operación históricamente...

We assess the consequences of substantially increasing the marginal tax rate on U.S. top earners using a human capital model. We nd that (1) the peak of the model Laer curve occurs at a 52 percent top tax rate, (2) if human capital were exogenous, then the top of the Laer curve would occur at a...

For more than 30 years, the ratio of average black earnings to average white earnings has remained close to 0.6. Additionally, US cities have remained dramatically segregated by race. This paper provides a joint theory of pre-market skills and residential segregation for quantitatively studying...

We calibrate the model to match some of the salient patterns of structural transformation (sectoral TFP and allocation of labor), urban development (migration, urbanization) and income distribution observed in Brazil since 1960. We use the model to address a prevalent question in development:...