IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/
MyIDEAS: Log in (now much improved!) to save this paper

Job Vacancies in Colombia: 1976-2012

Author Info

  • Andrés Álvarez

    ()

  • Marc Hofstetter

    ()

Abstract

Based on the counting of Help-wanted advertisements in print newspapers, we present national vacancy indexes and vacancy rates for Colombia. These series will allow tackling a myriad of questions related to the functioning of the labor markets in emerging economies, where such datasets were not available until now.

Download Info

If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to view it first. In case of further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site. Please be patient as the files may be large.

File URL: http://www.banrep.gov.co/sites/default/files/publicaciones/archivos/be_797.pdf
Download Restriction: no

Paper provided by BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA in its series BORRADORES DE ECONOMIA with number 011102.

as
in new window

Length: 28
Date of creation: 13 Dec 2013
Date of revision:
Handle: RePEc:col:000094:011102
Contact details of provider:

Keywords: Vacancies; Help-wanted index; unemployment; Beveridge curve; labor market; Colombia;

Other versions of this item:

Find related papers by JEL classification:
  • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
  • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
  • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
  • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

References listed on IDEAS
Please report citation or reference errors to , or , if you are the registered author of the cited work, log in to your RePEc Author Service profile, click on "citations" and make appropriate adjustments.:

as in new window
  1. Nohora Y. Forero Ramírez & Andrés Felipe García & Juan Carlos Guataquí, 2008. "¿A quiénes afecta el desempleo? análisis de la tasa de incidencia en Colombia," DOCUMENTOS DE TRABAJO 004718, UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO.
  2. Álvarez, Andrés & Hofstetter, Marc, 2013. "Cincuenta años de vacantes en Colombia. El caso de Bogotá (1960-2010)," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 0(318), pages 427-453, abril-jun.
  3. Andrés Álvarez & Marc Hofstetter, 2012. "50 Years of Job Vacancies in Colombia: The Case of Bogota, 1960-2010," BORRADORES DE ECONOMIA 009793, BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA.
  4. Luis Eduardo Arango, 2013. "Puestos de trabajo vacantes según anuncios de la prensa escrita de las siete principales ciudades de Colombia," BORRADORES DE ECONOMIA 011097, BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA.
  5. Laurence M. Ball & Nicolás De Roux & Marc Hofstetter, 2011. "Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean," NBER Working Papers 17274, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Marc Hofstetter, 2006. "La política monetaria y la Corte Constitucional: el caso del salario mínimo," Revista de Economía Institucional, Universidad Externado de Colombia - Facultad de Economía, vol. 8(14), pages 105-124, January-J.
  7. Samuel Jaramillo, 2004. "Precios Inmobiliarios En El Mercado De Vivienda En Bogotá 1970-2004," DOCUMENTOS CEDE 003363, UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE.
  8. Marc Hofstetter, 2012. "Otra mirada a datos laborales urbanos colombianos: Muchas preguntas y algunas respuestas tentativas," BORRADORES DE ECONOMIA 010045, BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA.
  9. Jay L. Zagorsky, 1998. "Job Vacancies In The United States: 1923 To 1994," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 80(2), pages 338-345, May.
  10. Viviana Alejandra Alfonso & Luis Eduardo Arango Thomas & Fernando Arias & José David Pulido, 2011. "Ciclos de negocios en Colombia: 1980-2010," BORRADORES DE ECONOMIA 008328, BANCO DE LA REPÚBLICA.
  11. Mauricio Cardenas & Raquel Bernal, 2004. "Determinants of Labor Demand in Colombia. 1976-1996," NBER Chapters, in: Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, pages 229-272 National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

The CitEc project has not yet found citations to this item.

This item is not listed on Wikipedia, on a reading list or among the top items on IDEAS.

Access and download statistics

When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:col:000094:011102. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: (Clorith Angélica Bahos Olivera)

If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

If references are entirely missing, you can add them using this form.

If the full references list an item that is present in RePEc, but the system did not link to it, you can help with this form.

If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

This information is provided to you by IDEAS at the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis using RePEc data.