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标题：Labour income inequality and the informal sector in Colombian cities
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作者：John Ariza ; Gabriel Montes-Rojas
期刊名称：Cuadernos de Economía
印刷版ISSN：2248-4337
出版年度：2017
卷号：36
期号：72
页码：77-98
DOI：10.15446/cuad.econ.v36n72.65820
语种：English
出版社：Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
摘要：Labour markets in developing countries are crucial to determine income inequality. In this paper, we use a panel data approach to study the effect of the informal sector on labour income inequality for thirteen cities in Colombia from 2002-2015. We use the rate of underemployment, the average duration of unemployment and the intensity of forced migration from armed conflicts as instruments for the urban informal sector. Results suggest that the informal sector has a positive and statistically significant effect on labour income inequality, which implies that an increase by one percentage point in the informal sector increases the Gini coefficient of labour income by about 0.07.