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Estimaciones de los determinantes de los ingresos laborales en Colombia con consideraciones diferenciales para asalariados y cuenta propia
Fecha
2009Registro en:
Guataquí, J. c., García, A., & Rodríguez, Mauricio. (2009). Estimaciones de los determinantes de los ingresos laborales en Colombia con consideraciones diferenciales para asalariados y cuenta propia. Bogotá: Universidad del Rosario.
Autor
Guataquí, Juan
Garcia-Suaza, Andres
Rodríguez Acosta, Mauricio
Institución
Resumen
Economic literature about determinants of labor income has evolved around its
theoretical and methodological foundations and more sophisticated and accurat e empirical estimations emerged. Colombian literature, though prolific, lacks on rigor. In order to exemplify the effects of this inattention to detailand using data from the Colombian Household Survey we provide joint estimations of labor income’s determ
inants for both waged and self-employed workers and contrast them with more accurate, detailed and decomposed estimations in order to illustrate the bias generated by sloppy and unsupported considerations of these two different kinds of workers.