Determinantes de la informalidad laboral y el subempleo en las ...

Abstract
Colombia as well as most Latin American countries, shows a marked heterogeneity in its labor
markets, in such a way that it possible to see together sectors whose employees have a wide range
of non-wage benefits provided by the state and sectors in which their employees do not enjoy the
assistance of the State in regard to non-wage benefits such as social security, for example. Hence,
in recent years, the study of working conditions and job quality has become important, precisely
because of its relevance to public and private policy. Because of this, informality and underemployment
deserve special importance as variables that measure the low quality of employment:
the first from the viewpoint of labor demand and the second from the point of view of supply.
This document is a descriptive analysis of labor market of the three metropolitan areas in the Caribbean
region and the dimensions of informality and underemployment. Subsequently, we estimate
a bivariate probit model to estimate the impact of socioeconomic determinants of informal
employment and underemployment on the probability of being an employee of low quality in
the three metropolitan areas mentioned above. The results show that years of education, gender,
head of household, marital status, employment rearrangement time and age, influence the likelihood
of being an employee of low quality.
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