Gender, Poverty and Labour Market Dynamics: A Microsimulations Analysis for Urban Colombia between 1990 and 2004

Jairo Isaza Castro

No 6888, Serie de Documentos en Economía y Violencia from Centro de Investigaciones en Violencia, Instituciones y Desarrollo Económico (VIDE)

Abstract: This paper analyses the extent to which income distribution and poverty changes in Colombian urban areas between 1990 and 2004 may be explained by gender dynamics in the labour market. For this purpose, the authors use household surveys microdata in order to perform a microsimulations analysis, following the methodology proposed by de Reis and Paes de Barros (1991). As a main conclusion, it is found that if labour market conditions of 1990 would prevailed in 2004, there would be a deterioration of poverty, income distribution and gender labour income inequality. In addition, it is observed that poverty headcount ratio diminished between 1990 and 2004 in urban Colombia but the number of men and women living with incomes below the poverty line grew up during this period.

Keywords: Colombia; poverty and income distribution; gender; labor economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 J16 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40
Date: 2010-04-09
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