Documentos de Trabajo sobre Economía Regional y Urbana - Labor Market and Poverty in Barranquilla

Documentos de Trabajo sobre Economía Regional y Urbana
Number: 
323
Published: 
Classification JEL: 
J21, J31, J46, O15, R11
Keywords: 
Barranquilla, Informality, Migration, Poverty

The most recent

Julián Alonso Cárdenas-Cárdenas, Deicy Johana Cristiano-Botia, Eliana Rocío González-Molano, Carlos Alfonso Huertas-Campos
Luis E. Arango, Juan José Ospina-Tejeiro, Fernando Arias-Rodríguez, Oscar Iván Ávila-Montealegre, Jaime Andrés Collazos-Rodríguez, Diana M. Cortázar Gómez, Juan Pablo Cote-Barón, Julio Escobar-Potes, Aarón Levi Garavito-Acosta, Franky Juliano Galeano-Ramírez, Eliana Rocío González-Molano, Maria Camila Gomez Cardona, Anderson Grajales, David Camilo López-Valenzuela, Wilmer Martinez-Rivera, Nicolás Martínez-Cortés, Rocío Clara Alexandra Mora-Quiñones, Sara Naranjo-Saldarriaga, Antonio Orozco, Daniel Parra-Amado, Julián Pérez-Amaya, José Pulido, Karen L. Pulido-Mahecha, Carolina Ramírez-Rodríguez, Sergio Restrepo Ángel, José Vicente Romero-Chamorro, Nicol Valeria Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Norberto Rodríguez-Niño, Diego Hernán Rodríguez-Hernández, Carlos D. Rojas-Martínez, Johana Andrea Sanabria-Domínguez, Diego Vásquez-Escobar
Luis Armando Galvis-Aponte, Adriana Isabel Ortega-Arrieta, Adriana Marcela Rivera-Zárate

Abstract

This document analyzes the evolution of the main labor market indicators and poverty indicators of Barranquilla between 2008 and 2022. On the one hand, it seeks to understand the evolution of employment generation and labor income during the last decade, and on the other hand, it aims to identify the public policies that have had a positive impact on the labor market and the pending challenges for the future. With respect to the poverty analysis, the document provides insights on the incidence, depth and its  determinants, which can be a valuable input for the design of public policies based on sustainable development and propoor growth. In this sense, it stands out a novel program implemented by the city to improve insertion into the formal labor market of young, low-income people called “English for Work”, which strives for strengthening the foreign language skills of students and unemployed individuals to respond to the requirements of the BPO sector, which is one of the fastest growing industries in Barranquilla.