Labor Market Transitions and Social Security in Colombia
This paper quantifies the magnitude of transitions across occupational categories in Colombia, a country with high unemployment and informality but quickly increasing its social security coverage for health. The analysis makes use of a panel of hou...
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okr-10986-34132021-04-23T14:02:09Z Labor Market Transitions and Social Security in Colombia Cuesta, Jose Bohorquez, Camilo ACCOUNTING AGE GROUP BUSINESS CYCLE CHRONIC POVERTY CULTURAL CHANGE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISCRIMINATION ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SHOCKS EMPLOYMENT INCREASES EMPLOYMENT RATES FAMILY LABOR FEMALE EDUCATION FEMALE LABOR GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER GAP HEALTH CARE HEALTH INSURANCE HEALTH PROBLEMS HEALTH SERVICES HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ILLNESS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT INFORMAL SECTOR INTERNAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION JOB SATISFACTION JOBS JOBS CRISIS LABOR DEMAND LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKET RIGIDITIES LABOR MARKET SEGMENTATION LABOR MARKETS LABOR ORGANIZATION LABOR SUPPLY LABOUR LABOUR MARKET LABOUR SUPPLY LACK OF AWARENESS MARITAL STATUS MINIMUM WAGES MOTIVATION NON-WAGE COSTS OCCUPATION OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY OCCUPATIONAL STATUS OCCUPATIONS PAYROLL TAXES PENSIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PREVIOUS JOB PREVIOUS OCCUPATION PREVIOUS RESULTS PRODUCTIVITY PROGRESS RESPECT RISK OF DEATH RURAL AREAS SALARIED WORKERS SECONDARY EDUCATION SEX SOCIAL BENEFITS SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL PROTECTION MECHANISMS SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS SPOUSE SUBSTITUTION EFFECTS UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYED LABOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE UNEMPLOYED POOR UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES UNEMPLOYMENT RATES UNPAID WORKERS WORK IN PROGRESS WORKER WORKING YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT This paper quantifies the magnitude of transitions across occupational categories in Colombia, a country with high unemployment and informality but quickly increasing its social security coverage for health. The analysis makes use of a panel of households between 2008 and 2009, representative of the main metropolitan areas in the country. Results confirm previous evidence found in Colombia and elsewhere in the region that transitions between occupations are large and asymmetric: they are disproportionally more likely to happen from formal to informal occupations than vice versa. The paper finds for the first time that such transitions are also different for salaried workers compared with the self-employed, as well as by poverty status of the worker. Salaried workers are more likely to transition first into other salaried jobs, while self-employed are more likely to transition into unemployment or out of the labor force. There are marked differences in the profiles of transitioning and non-transitioning workers, both in terms of socioeconomic characteristics and social security coverage. Causal analysis shows that affiliation to social security on health deters occupational transitions, while pension insurance does not. Hence, high-volume transitions may not be crisis-specific phenomena, but rather associated with contributive and non-contributive social security mechanisms that incentivize informality, and workers' preferences for informal jobs. The debate on labor market and social security reforms needs to take these features of transitions into account. 2012-03-19T18:02:01Z 2012-03-19T18:02:01Z 2011-05-01 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110504090740 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3413 English Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5650 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Latin America & Caribbean Latin America & Caribbean South America America Colombia |
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ACCOUNTING AGE GROUP BUSINESS CYCLE CHRONIC POVERTY CULTURAL CHANGE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISCRIMINATION ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SHOCKS EMPLOYMENT INCREASES EMPLOYMENT RATES FAMILY LABOR FEMALE EDUCATION FEMALE LABOR GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER GAP HEALTH CARE HEALTH INSURANCE HEALTH PROBLEMS HEALTH SERVICES HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ILLNESS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT INFORMAL SECTOR INTERNAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION JOB SATISFACTION JOBS JOBS CRISIS LABOR DEMAND LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKET RIGIDITIES LABOR MARKET SEGMENTATION LABOR MARKETS LABOR ORGANIZATION LABOR SUPPLY LABOUR LABOUR MARKET LABOUR SUPPLY LACK OF AWARENESS MARITAL STATUS MINIMUM WAGES MOTIVATION NON-WAGE COSTS OCCUPATION OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY OCCUPATIONAL STATUS OCCUPATIONS PAYROLL TAXES PENSIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PREVIOUS JOB PREVIOUS OCCUPATION PREVIOUS RESULTS PRODUCTIVITY PROGRESS RESPECT RISK OF DEATH RURAL AREAS SALARIED WORKERS SECONDARY EDUCATION SEX SOCIAL BENEFITS SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL PROTECTION MECHANISMS SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS SPOUSE SUBSTITUTION EFFECTS UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYED LABOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE UNEMPLOYED POOR UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES UNEMPLOYMENT RATES UNPAID WORKERS WORK IN PROGRESS WORKER WORKING YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT |
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ACCOUNTING AGE GROUP BUSINESS CYCLE CHRONIC POVERTY CULTURAL CHANGE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISCRIMINATION ECONOMIC DOWNTURNS ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC SHOCKS EMPLOYMENT INCREASES EMPLOYMENT RATES FAMILY LABOR FEMALE EDUCATION FEMALE LABOR GENDER DIFFERENCES GENDER GAP HEALTH CARE HEALTH INSURANCE HEALTH PROBLEMS HEALTH SERVICES HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT RATES HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ILLNESS INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT INFORMAL SECTOR INTERNAL MIGRATION INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION JOB SATISFACTION JOBS JOBS CRISIS LABOR DEMAND LABOR ECONOMICS LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET LABOR MARKET RIGIDITIES LABOR MARKET SEGMENTATION LABOR MARKETS LABOR ORGANIZATION LABOR SUPPLY LABOUR LABOUR MARKET LABOUR SUPPLY LACK OF AWARENESS MARITAL STATUS MINIMUM WAGES MOTIVATION NON-WAGE COSTS OCCUPATION OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE OCCUPATIONAL MOBILITY OCCUPATIONAL STATUS OCCUPATIONS PAYROLL TAXES PENSIONS POLICY DISCUSSIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PREVIOUS JOB PREVIOUS OCCUPATION PREVIOUS RESULTS PRODUCTIVITY PROGRESS RESPECT RISK OF DEATH RURAL AREAS SALARIED WORKERS SECONDARY EDUCATION SEX SOCIAL BENEFITS SOCIAL POLICY SOCIAL PROGRAMS SOCIAL PROTECTION SOCIAL PROTECTION MECHANISMS SOCIAL SECURITY SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS SPOUSE SUBSTITUTION EFFECTS UNEMPLOYED UNEMPLOYED LABOR UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE UNEMPLOYED POOR UNEMPLOYMENT FIGURES UNEMPLOYMENT RATES UNPAID WORKERS WORK IN PROGRESS WORKER WORKING YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT Cuesta, Jose Bohorquez, Camilo Labor Market Transitions and Social Security in Colombia |
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Latin America & Caribbean Latin America & Caribbean South America America Colombia |
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Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5650 |
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This paper quantifies the magnitude of
transitions across occupational categories in Colombia, a
country with high unemployment and informality but quickly
increasing its social security coverage for health. The
analysis makes use of a panel of households between 2008 and
2009, representative of the main metropolitan areas in the
country. Results confirm previous evidence found in Colombia
and elsewhere in the region that transitions between
occupations are large and asymmetric: they are
disproportionally more likely to happen from formal to
informal occupations than vice versa. The paper finds for
the first time that such transitions are also different for
salaried workers compared with the self-employed, as well as
by poverty status of the worker. Salaried workers are more
likely to transition first into other salaried jobs, while
self-employed are more likely to transition into
unemployment or out of the labor force. There are marked
differences in the profiles of transitioning and
non-transitioning workers, both in terms of socioeconomic
characteristics and social security coverage. Causal
analysis shows that affiliation to social security on health
deters occupational transitions, while pension insurance
does not. Hence, high-volume transitions may not be
crisis-specific phenomena, but rather associated with
contributive and non-contributive social security mechanisms
that incentivize informality, and workers' preferences
for informal jobs. The debate on labor market and social
security reforms needs to take these features of transitions
into account. |
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Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper |
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Cuesta, Jose Bohorquez, Camilo |
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Cuesta, Jose Bohorquez, Camilo |
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Cuesta, Jose |
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Labor Market Transitions and Social Security in Colombia |
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Labor Market Transitions and Social Security in Colombia |
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Labor Market Transitions and Social Security in Colombia |
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Labor Market Transitions and Social Security in Colombia |
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Labor Market Transitions and Social Security in Colombia |
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labor market transitions and social security in colombia |
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2012 |
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http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110504090740 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3413 |
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