Utilizando la encuesta de hogares trimestral para las siete principales ciudades de Colombia en el período 1984-2000, se examinó el impacto de choques globales y sectoriales de la actividad económica sobre el desempleo, la ocupación, la participación, los ingresos laborales, horas...

Con información de la encuesta CEDE 2003, realizada a 2295 mujeres en Bogotá, Barranquilla y Barrancabermeja, se estudió los mecanismos de reproducción de la violencia intrafamiliar, en particular, el maltrato físico severo contra las mujeres, de una generación a otra. Mediante modelos...

Utilizando la encuesta de hogares trimestral para las siete principales ciudades de Colombia en el período 1984-2000, se examinó el impacto de choques globales y sectoriales de la actividad económica sobre el desempleo, la ocupación, la participación, los ingresos laborales, horas...

In this paper we analyze transition data by means of the minimum-chi-square (MCS) method instead of the more commonly used maximum-likelihood (ML) method. The analysis includes exits to multiple destinations and unmeasured heterogeneity. In the empirical application, turnover in the welfare...

This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We show that, if the search requirements are well...

This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to identify this dynamic treatment effect using monthly calendar...

We empirically test the relationship between hiring discrimination and labour market tightness at the level of the occupation. To this end, we conduct a correspondence test in the youth labour market. In line with theoretical expectations, we find that, compared to natives, can- didates with a...

This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual “pure ethnic gap”. It innovates by explicitly taking delays in...

This study investigates whether and to what extent further unemployment experience for youths who are already long-term unemployed imposes a penalty on subsequent labor market outcomes. We propose a flexible method for analyzing the effect on wages aside of transitions from unemployment and...