Job Vacancies in Colombia : 1976-2012

Borradores de Economia
Number: 
797
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
E24, E32, J63, J64
Keywords: 
Human capital agglomeration, Social returns, Private returns, Externalities, Uncertainty, Fiscal policy

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.