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  • Mauricio Cardenas and Raquel Bernal, Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean (University of Chicago Press, 2004), chap. 4, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/law-and-employment-lessons-latin-america-and-caribbean/determinants-labor-demand-colombia-1976-1996.

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Colombia's unemployment rate rose to 20% during the late 1990s from less than 8% in 1994. This paper argues that this...

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