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Macroeconomic performance and inequality in Colombia: 1976-1996
(1997-12)
"This paper explores the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and urban income distribution in Colombia. The results show that unemployment and inflation have significant regressive effects. Manufacturing output growth is clearly progressive, as well as improved conditions in the rural areas. Currency overvaluation is also related to income concentration."
Efficiency and equity effects of structural reform: The case of Colombia
(1996-07)
"The pace of structural reforms in Latin America has been remarkable in the 1990s. Most counties have substantially reduced tariff and non-tariff protection while sub regional free trade agreements have been signed at an unprecedented pace. Capital account transactions, especially in relation to foreign investment, have been liberalized. In some cases, reforms to paternalistic labor regimes have made labor markets more ...
Wage inequality and structural reform: evidence from Colombia
(1995)
"The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the causes of the early decline as well as the recent increase in wage inequality in Colombia. In particular, we relate changes in wage differentials to the gap between the rate of growth of the relative demand for more-skilled workers and the relative supply of such workers. Similarly, this paper argues that the earlier reduction in wage differentials is related to the increase ...