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2011-06-21

Segmentación laboral en Colombia durante el período 2001-2006

Labor Segmentation in Colombia during the Period 2001-2006

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15332/s2248-4914.2011.0018.03
Ana Cecilia Pedraza Avella
School of Industrial and Business Studies of the Industrial University of Santander. Industrial Engineering of the University Industrial of Santander
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A job is a guarantee of income and, at the same time, a space of development. However, dealing with labor precariousness, today it is important for an individual to find employment, but a good one. The problem of entry to the best occupations would be less important if people could do it just improving their labor productivity; other complications appear when there are barriers of entry other than human capital, as the labor market segmentation theory says. In this context, this document has the objective of showing the existence of a segmented labor market in Colombia during the period 2001-2006. Through several econometric models, it is proved that using the scale of firms for dividing the labor market in two parts leads to find a primary and a secondary segment, being the first the one which groups the best occupations and has a restricted access
Keywords (en): Unemployment, Labor segmentation, Labor Quality, out of work.

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Partiendo del concepto de que el trabajo garantiza un ingreso y un espacio de desarrollo, hoy en día con el reforzamiento de la precariedad laboral se considera importante que los individuos no solamente estén empleados sino que sus ocupaciones sean de calidad. La problemática de acceder a los mejores empleos sería menos relevante si para hacerlo fueran suficientes mejoras en productividad laboral; sin embargo, otras complicaciones aparecen cuando existen además barreras de entrada diferentes a las de capital humano, tal como advierte la teoría de segmentación laboral. En este contexto, el presente documento tiene como objetivo mostrar la existencia de segmentación laboral en Colombia en el período 2001-2006. A través de diferentes modelos econométricos, se comprueba que usar la escala de las empresas para dividir dualmente el mercado de trabajo da lugar a un segmento primario y otro secundario, donde el primero agrupa las mejores ocupaciones y tiene restringido su acceso.
Keywords (es): Desempleo, segmentación laboral, calidad de trabajo, desocupados. Clasificación JEL, J21, J42, J81, J82.
Ana Cecilia Pedraza Avella, School of Industrial and Business Studies of the Industrial University of Santander. Industrial Engineering of the University Industrial of Santander
Professor at the Industrial and Business Studies School of the Industrial University of Santander. Industrial Engineer of the Industrial University of Santander, Master of Economics of the University of the Andes and PhD in Economic Sciences of the National University of Colombia.

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Pedraza Avella, A. C. (2011). Labor Segmentation in Colombia during the Period 2001-2006. Revista CIFE: Lecturas De Economía Social, 13(18), 101. https://doi.org/10.15332/s2248-4914.2011.0018.03

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