Self-Employment and Conflict in Colombia

Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück and Nina Wald

No 1098, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict that influences their decision making in everyday life, including their behavior in labor markets. This study focuses on the impact of violent conflict on self-employment, enlarging the usual determinants with a set of conflict variables. In order to estimate the effect of conflict on self-employment, we employ fixed effects estimation. Three datasets are combined for estimation: the Familias en Acción dataset delivers information about individuals, a second dataset contains different indicators of the Colombian conflict at the municipality level and the third dataset includes taxes to measure a municipality's economic situation. Our results show that high homicide and displacement rates in the community of origin reduces self-employment, while a high influx of displaced increases the probability of self-employment in the destination municipality.

Keywords: Self-employment; civil conflict; rural labor markets; Colombia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 J16 J24 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 p.
Date: 2011
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Journal Article: Self-employment and Conflict in Colombia (2013)
Working Paper: Self-Employment and Conflict in Colombia (2011)
Working Paper: Self-Employment and Conflict in Colombia (2010)
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