Documentos de Trabajo sobre Economía Regional y Urbana
Number:
318
Published:
Classification JEL:
E24, E26, J21, J23, J24
Keywords:
Labor market, Skills, Employment, Caribbean region
The most recent
Francisco Javier Lasso-Valderrama, Carmiña Ofelia Vargas-Riaño
Anne Brockmeyer, Francois Gerard, Gabriel Ulyssea, Linda Wu, Marcelo Bergolo, Rodrigo Ceni González, Bernard Kirui, Andrea Lopez-Luzuriaga, Leonardo Fabio Morales, Andrea Sofía Otero-Cortés, Nadine Riedel, Matias Tapia, Tanisa Tawichsri, Verena Wiedemann
Marlon Salazar, Andrés Salazar-Mejía, Jorge Daniel Guevara-Acevedo, Juan David Duitama-Correa
Abstract
Local labor markets in Colombia are exceptionally heterogeneous. In particular, the cities of the Caribbean region have higher labor informality and lower unemployment rates, compared to the rest of the country. This work is part of a research agenda on local labor markets in Colombia, based on a purely descriptive approach that delves into the characteristics of labor supply and demand and its imbalance. Particularly, this study identifies potential factors that differentiate labor indicators in the Caribbean region from other cities.