The Democratic Security Policy: Socioeconomic Effects in the Rural Areas, 2002-2006

Gerson Javier Pérez V. ()
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: GERSON Javier PEREZ-VALBUENA

Borradores de Economia from Banco de la Republica de Colombia

Abstract: This paper measures the impact of strengthening the security policy on the rural labour market in Colombia by exploiting the structural change in the number of rural seizures. The new policy produced dissimilar effects across gender, age-groups, and types of occupation. For adults, especially for women, there were important reductions in the labour participation, with simultaneous reductions in the income across the most representative types of workers, self-employees and day-laborers. For male youths and children there was an increase in the labor participation through the day-labor activities, while females seemed to participate less as self-employees. In general there was a socioeconomic loss in terms of reductions of adult’s labour supply and income, while for youths and children there is a differentiated effect by gender in the labour participation, and no significant connections were found with school enrollment.

Keywords: Labour Supply; Crime; Regional Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J21 K15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40
Date: 2012-07
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