Effects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment

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dc.creatorCamacho, Adriana
dc.creatorConover, Emily
dc.creatorHoyos, Alejandro
dc.date2016-05-03T21:36:05Z
dc.date2016-05-03T21:36:05Z
dc.date2014-10-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:47:08Z
dc.descriptionWe examine whether the Colombian government's expansion of social programs in the early 1990s, particularly the publicly provided health insurance, discouraged formal employment. Using household survey data and variation across municipalities in the onset of interviews for the SISBEN, the instrument used to identify beneficiaries for public health insurance, we find robust and consistent estimates of an increase in informal employment of approximately 4 percentage points. We find similar results using an alternative dataset, consisting of a panel of individuals interviewed for the first and second SISBEN. Our findings suggest that marginal individuals optimized when deciding whether to participate in the formal sector.
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dc.identifierWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier1564-698X
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/24193
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/24193
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/410961
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
dc.relationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectextended families
dc.subjectinformal employment
dc.subjectliving standards
dc.subjectsocial policy
dc.subjectunemployment
dc.subjectworkers
dc.subjectworkplace
dc.subjectlabor laws
dc.subjecthealth services
dc.subjectsick leave
dc.titleEffects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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