Ponencia presentada por Jorge Botero, presidente de Fasecolda, que incluye los logros sociales y económicos, los retos para avanzar y evitar el deterioro y los Seguros de desempleo, entre los que se resalta que “El reto ...

This paper describes the effects of pension benefits on pre-retirement labor supplyfor a representative sample of Chilean workers. Using non-linearities in benefits and areform that changed ...

n this paper we study the impact of minimum wage increase on the employmentstatus. Toward that goal, we rst empirically show that informal sector economy shows hetero-geneity though, on average, ...

We develop a search and matching model where firms and workers produce outputthat depends both on match-specific productivity and on worker-specific human capi-tal. The human capital is accumulated while working but ...

Informality is a widespread phenomenon in developing economies with negativeconsequences on productivity and inequality. Several policies have been implementedto decrease informality such as decreasing ...

This paper uses a reduced-form implementation of a structural model of constrained oc-cupational choice to explain the probability that an individual receives a wage offer, animportant determinant ...

High and persistent labour informality has been a major problem for Latin American economies where most workers are excluded from social protectionandhave low and variable incomes.In the case ...

This paper develops a multi-industry general equilibrium model where en-trepreneurs within each industry can decide to operate formally or informally.The model yields a rich set of predictions ...

In low-income countries, citizens often pay ‘taxes’ that differ substantially from what is required by statute. These non-statutory taxes are central to financing both local public goods and ...

The Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) is an essential indicator for the reading of the economic cycle. However, estimation of this rateis complexsince it is not directly ...