Is the wage curve formal or informal? Evidence for Colombia

Using microdata from the 2002-2006 Colombian Continuous Household Survey, we find an elasticity of individual wages to local unemployment rates of -0.07. However, the elasticity for informal workers is significantly higher, a result which is consistent with efficiency wage theoretical models and relevant for regional labour markets analysis in developing countries.

Disseny BD : Activitat física i història mèdica dels ciutadans de la CEE

Treball de fi de carrera dins de l'àrea de bases de dades relacionals. Es tracta del desenvolupament d'un projecte informàtic consistent en el disseny i implementació d'una base de dades, que en l'àmbit de la Comunitat Europea, permeti emmagatzemar i consultar informació sobre l'activitat física i certes dades de salut dels seus ciutadans.

Condiciones de trabajo psicosociales y desgaste psíquico en trabajadores de diversos sectores empresariales de Centro Oriente, Suroccidente y región Caribe en Colombia

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Sevillian transport jars in early colonial America: the case of Santa María La Antigua del Darién (Colombia)

Within the scope of the TECNOLONIAL (HAR2008-02834/HIST) project, an archaeologi- cal and archaeometric research is being conduct- ed in order to clarify and systematize transport jars production in the Iberian peninsula and their distribution abroad, especially to the Americas, from the 15th to the 17th century. The production centre of Seville, in the Crown of Castile, produced large glazed and unglazed transport jars, called botijas, which were mainly devoted to the Atlantic trade network. The pres- ent study accounts for the first results obtained from an initial sample of 34 transport jars dated around the 15th-16th centuries from the produc- tion centre of Seville and the reception site of Santa María de la Antigua del Darién (gulf of Urabá, Colombia). This latter site is especially significant since it was the first Spanish founda- tion (1510) in continental America that obtained the title of town, and was the seat for the Governor of the new region called Castilla de Oro, as well as for the first diocese. All individuals were analyzed by means of x-ray fluorescence and diffraction analyses and then compared with the majolica production database from Seville. The results enabled us to define the first refer- ence groups for such modern transport jars, and to get a first insight into the jars coming to the Americas in the early 16th century whose prove- nance can be linked to Seville, but not Triana.

Is the wage curve formal or informal? Evidence for Colombia

The objective of this paper is to analyse the existente or not of a wage curve in Colombia, paying special attention to the differences between formal and informal workers, an issue that has been systematically ignored in the wage curve literature. The obtained results using microdata from the Colombian Continuous Household Survey (CHS) between 2002 and 2006 show the existence of a wage curve with a negative slope for the Colombian economy. Using information on metropolitan areas, the estimates of the elasticity of individual wages to local unemployment rates was -0.07, a value that is very close to those obtained for other countries. However, the disaggregation of statistical information for formal and informal workers has shown significant differences among both groups of workers. In particular, for the less protected groups of the labour market, informal workers (both men and women), a high negatively sloped wage curve was found. This result is consistent with the conclusions from efficiency wage theoretical models and should be taken into account when analysing the functioning of regional labour markets in developing countries.

Desenvolupament d'interfícies d'usuari i visualització d'imatge mèdica en dispositius mòbils Android

Aquest treball tracta sobre la realització d’una aplicació per a dispositius Android que permeti visualitzar imatges mèdiques. Amb la col·laboració del parc Taulí de Sabadell s’han realitzat tasques de recerca de requeriments com l’elaboració d’una entrevista o la realització d’una maqueta de paper que s’ha sotmès a una avaluació heurística en un procés iteratiu. Finalment, s’ha implementat una aplicació on es poden visualitzar imatges mèdiques, fer accions sobre elles com canviar el color o fer zoom i accedir a informació del pacient.