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El desempleo en Colombia

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  • Luis Eduardo Arango T.
  • Carlos Esteban Posada P.

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“Este documento describe e interpreta la evolución de la tasa de desempleo urbano en Colombia en el periodo 1984:1 -2000:2. Incluye evidencia sobre algunas de las propiedades de las series de tiempo del mercado laboral (tasas de desempleo, de ocupación y de participación). Se estiman las etapas de equilibrio y desequilibrio del mercado laboral y se establece, así, el periodo para el cual es válida la hipótesis de igualdad entre el componente de tendencia de la tasa de desempleo y la NAIRU. En este sentido se discute la posibilidad de que el componente de tendencia haya tenido un crecimiento mayor que la NAIRU con posterioridad a 1994 a raíz de choques cuyos efectos son bastante persistentes dada la inflexibilidad a la baja del salario real y otros costos salariales. Por ello, no se puede rechazar la hipótesis de alta persistencia en la tasa de desempleo. Políticas para reducir el desempleo de 20% a 14%, según uno de los, métodos de descomposición utilizados, no deberían tener consecuencias inflacionarias, siempre que el salario real y otros costos laborales tengan un comportamiento compatible con tal objetivo. Niveles inferiores a 14% generarían presiones inflacionarias, a menos que disminuyan, en forma permanente, los impuestos a la nómina y mejoren los sistemas de información y adiestramiento de la fuerza laboral para reducir el desajuste (cualitativo) entre los perfiles de la oferta y la demanda de fuerza laboral.”

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  • Luis Eduardo Arango T. & Carlos Esteban Posada P., 2001. "El desempleo en Colombia," Coyuntura Social 12955, Fedesarrollo.
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    Keywords

    Situación Social; Desarrollo Social; Coyuntura Social; Tasa de Desempleo; Tasa de Ocupación; Tasa Global de Participación; Tasa Natural de Desempleo; Empleo; Desempleo; Salario Real; Salarios; Trabajadores; Mercado Laboral;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
    • C22 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
    • J60 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - General
    • J65 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment Insurance; Severance Pay; Plant Closings

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