The purpose of this paper is to analyze informal employment in three metropolitan areas, Barranquilla, Cartagena y Montería using information from the second quarters of the Continuous Household Survey for years 2001 to 2005. Two definitions of informality were used, the official (DANE) and one based on social security (Pensions). Based on these, informal workers from the metropolitan areas are characterized according to their socioeconomic characteristics andthe time it took them to find their current job. We find in general, that age, education, marital status and being head of a household plays a significant role in explaining the lower likelihood of becoming an informal worker, while longer spells of job searching increases this likelih...
This paper compares the main conceptual and empirical approaches to labor informality in Colombia. T...
La informalidad laboral ha sido durante décadas el común denominador entre las economías latinoameri...
La informalidad laboral ha sido durante décadas el común denominador entre las economías latinoameri...
R e s u m e nEl objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el empleo informal en las áreasmetropolitanas d...
This article aims to estimate which characteristics of workers have incidence on the probability of ...
Informality is an alternative source of income to the lack of opportunities people have to get a job...
This article aims to estimate which characteristics of workers have incidence on the probability of ...
The expansion of the informal sector in the last decades has been accompanied by a lack of almost ev...
El presente documento tiene por objetivo llevar a cabo una caracterización de la informalidad en Col...
The expansion of the informal sector in the last decades has been accompanied by a lack of almost ev...
Este artículo documenta los principales patrones y tendencias de las definiciones alternativas de la...
Este artículo documenta los principales patrones y tendencias de las definiciones alternativas de la...
The objective of this document is to analyze the characteristics of informal employment in Mexico in...
Este documento lleva a cabo un análisis de la informalidad en la vivienda y la informalidad laboral,...
In this paper, we study the extent and nature of informality in Colombia by using the new chapter on...
This paper compares the main conceptual and empirical approaches to labor informality in Colombia. T...
La informalidad laboral ha sido durante décadas el común denominador entre las economías latinoameri...
La informalidad laboral ha sido durante décadas el común denominador entre las economías latinoameri...
R e s u m e nEl objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el empleo informal en las áreasmetropolitanas d...
This article aims to estimate which characteristics of workers have incidence on the probability of ...
Informality is an alternative source of income to the lack of opportunities people have to get a job...
This article aims to estimate which characteristics of workers have incidence on the probability of ...
The expansion of the informal sector in the last decades has been accompanied by a lack of almost ev...
El presente documento tiene por objetivo llevar a cabo una caracterización de la informalidad en Col...
The expansion of the informal sector in the last decades has been accompanied by a lack of almost ev...
Este artículo documenta los principales patrones y tendencias de las definiciones alternativas de la...
Este artículo documenta los principales patrones y tendencias de las definiciones alternativas de la...
The objective of this document is to analyze the characteristics of informal employment in Mexico in...
Este documento lleva a cabo un análisis de la informalidad en la vivienda y la informalidad laboral,...
In this paper, we study the extent and nature of informality in Colombia by using the new chapter on...
This paper compares the main conceptual and empirical approaches to labor informality in Colombia. T...
La informalidad laboral ha sido durante décadas el común denominador entre las economías latinoameri...
La informalidad laboral ha sido durante décadas el común denominador entre las economías latinoameri...