50 Years of Job Vacancies in Colombia: The Case of Bogota, 1960-2010

Number: 
719
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
E24, E32, J63, J64
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

This paper presents a novel monthly dataset of job vacancies in Bogota between 1960 and 2010. The dataset was constructed by counting the number of help-wanted announcements published in the most important newspaper with national circulation—namely, El Ti