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

Número: 
719
Publicado: 
Clasificación JEL: 
E24, E32, J63, J64
Palabras clave: 
Vacancy Rate, Unemployment, Beveridge curve, labor market

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