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In this paper, we compute standard measures of fluidity for the Colombian urban labor market: worker and job reallocation rates and the excess of worker reallocation over job reallocation. We analyze the period between the second semester of 2008 and the second semester of 2014, finding evidence of…
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This report details the labor market's current situation according to the Official Colombian Household Survey (GEIH in Spanish) and the impact of the National Training Service’s (SENA in Spanish) labor skills certification program.According to data from the GEIH, between November 2022 and 2023,…
As of November 2022, the Colombian labor market has stabilized. This is due to the heterogeneous dynamics between the urban and rural domains. In the first domain, employment continues to grow, while in the second, there have been contractions in recent months. Job losses in the rural area are…
Data from the official household survey in Colombia (GEIH in Spanish) show that, as of February 2025, employment continued to grow at an annual rate of 3.9%. This is primarily attributed to better employment dynamics within rural sectors, which expanded at a 4.9% rate. Regarding the dynamics and…
Data from the Official Colombian Household Survey (GEIH, by its acronym in Spanish) suggests that, following a period of contraction at the end of 2023, employment grew across all geographic domains. This performance is largely explained by the stronger performance of employment in other…
At the end of 2021, the labor market showed signs of a sluggish recovery, at a notably slower pace than economic activity. With seasonally adjusted figures from the household survey, job creation in the national aggregate saw a pause in October and November, due largely to a downturn in employment…
After being stagnant for the first half of the year, employment grew again in July and August. This upturn in employment has been particularly marked in the intermediate municipalities and rural areas. Going by segments of national employment, non-wage employment—which had slowed down in the second…
As of February 2022, the labor market showed signs of recovery with a sustained employment growth as seen in both household surveys and various administrative records. Different sources of information suggest that the level of employment is slightly above what it was before the pandemic. The…
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,…
A pseudo-panel was built to estimate the determinants of the labor participation decision of married women between 1984 and 2000. Past participation decisions, education level, labor income taxes, children between 1 and 2 years of age, and the presence of other people unemployed at home are the…