On the Dynamics of Unemployment in a Developing Economy: Colombia

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
208
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
C32, J31, J64
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

This paper estimates an asymmetric error correction model to analyse the dynamic behaviour of the Colombian unemployment rate. We find evidence that wages above their long-run equilibrium level do increase unemployment, but wages below this level do not r