Desigualdades en el mercado laboral urbano-rural en Colombia, 2010-2019

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ID4229637
AuthorsAndrea Otero-Cortés (0000-0002-3992-4716, Banco de la República Colombia), Edson Acosta-Ariza (0000-0001-5375-9748, Banco de la República Colombia)
Year2022
IssueEspecial
Pages173-219
Publication date2022-07-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista CS (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2011-0324 • E-ISSN: 2665-4814
PublisherUniversidad Icesi (PUBLISHER • CO)
DOI10.18046/recs.iespecial.4939
OpenAlexW4288705450
LanguageES
Citations received2
References cited7

The inequality in Colombia has been widely documented from different perspectives, but little is known about inequalities in the urban-rural context. This paper studies urban-rural inequality in the labor market using a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition for labor income and characterization of rural and urban labor markets. We find that about 60 % of the urban-rural earnings gap is explained by observed worker factors such as educational level and age; the remaining 40 % is due to unobserved characteristics such as employer preferences, worker's ability, etc. We identify three rural labor market conditions that explain and promote the urban-rural labor income gap: i) low female labor participation and high unemployment rates compared to their urban counterparts; ii) significantly higher labor informality that in urban areas; and iii) high incidence of child labor

Art · Economics · Geography · Humanities · Labour economics · Political science · Welfare economics · Working hours · Economic and Social Development · Employment, Labor, and Gender Studies · Occupational Health and Safety in Workplaces

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