Labour income inequality and the informal sector in Colombian cities
Labour markets in developing countries are crucial to determine income inequality. In this paper, we use a panel data approach to study the effect of the informal sector on labour income inequality for thirteen cities in Colombia from 2002-2015. We use the rate of underemployment, the average durati...
- Autores:
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Ariza, John
Montes-Rojas, Gabriel
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2017
- Institución:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Repositorio:
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/62539
- Acceso en línea:
- https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/62539
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/61698/
- Palabra clave:
- 33 Economía / Economics
Income inequality
the informal sector
Latin America
occupations.
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
| Summary: | Labour markets in developing countries are crucial to determine income inequality. In this paper, we use a panel data approach to study the effect of the informal sector on labour income inequality for thirteen cities in Colombia from 2002-2015. We use the rate of underemployment, the average duration of unemployment and the intensity of forced migration from armed conflicts as instruments for the urban informal sector. Results suggest that the informal sector has a positive and statistically significant effect on labour income inequality, which implies that an increase by one percentage point in the informal sector increases the Gini coefficient of labour income by about 0.07. |
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