Gender gap in unemployment in Colombian regions.

The Bank of La Republica de Colombia publishes the book "Unemployment in Colombia", which AQR member Enrique López-Bazo has contributed in one of its chapters along with researchers from Colombian universities.

To carry out this study, the Technical Management of the Bank of the Republic and the Office of the Inter-American Development Bank in Bogota promoted a competition between Colombian Research Centers and researchers of the Republic’s Bank on "Female structural unemployment and regional heterogeneity of the Colombian Labour market”. The eight selected proposals form the body of this book, apart from the introductory chapter elaborated by Eduardo Lora.

The chapters are derived from the research papers published in the series of IDB Working Papers and Draft Economics of the Republic’s Bank.

One of the selected chapters is "Regional heterogeneity in gender differences in unemployment rates", developed by Juan C. Duque (University Eafit), Gustavo García (Universidad de los Andes), Paula Herrera Idárraga (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana) and Enrique López-Bazo (AQR-IREA, University of Barcelona).