Total Decisiones de inserción laboral: el caso de los jóvenes rurales peruanos

Chris Boyd ()
Additional contact information
Chris Boyd: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos

Revista Economía, 2014, vol. 37, issue 74, 9-40

Abstract: This paper identifies the determinants of employment for rural young people aged 15 to 29 from the National Survey of Youth (Enajuv 2011), the first such survey representative of Peruvian rural youth. Data from this survey shows that rural unemployment is half of the urban rate, and that participation rates in labor markets are higher for rural youth. The pattern is different for rural young women, only 62.1% of whom provide labor to the market. The results, from a logit model, show that the decision to enter the labor market is closely linked to the decision to study and to undertaking unpaid family work. Moreover, the high percentages of youth engaged in unpaid family work (39% for men, 42% women) seem to show that the decision to participate in the labor market is made at the household level and not individually.

Keywords: Rural youth; labor supply; new rurality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J22 J32 R59 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/economia/article/view/11412/11929 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pcp:pucrev:y:2014:i:74:p:9-40

Access Statistics for this article

Revista Economía is currently edited by Luis García

More articles in Revista Economía from Fondo Editorial - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Av. Universitaria 1801, San Miguel, Lima, Perú. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().