Identificación, caracterización y evolución reciente de los trabajadores pobres en Colombia 2002 – 2012

Roberto Mauricio Sánchez Torres

Econógrafos, Escuela de Economía from Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID

Abstract: This paper is a preliminary approach to the study of the working poor in Colombia. Using data from the Continuous Household Survey and the Large Integrated Household Survey, the main poverty indicators for the workers are estimated, and it is shown poverty decomposition by geographical area between 2002 and 2012. After that, a socio-demographic and occupational characterization of the working poor is done. Although the poverty has gone down, the differences in the incidence and the intensity poverty between rural and urban areas are still important and it is found that the labor insertion is a fundamental aspect to understand the low incomes of the working poor.

Keywords: working poor; poverty indicators; poverty in Colombia; geographical decomposition of poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 J23 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 2014-02
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