@techreport{10336/3362,
author = {Gómez Dávila, Juan David},
year = {2011},
url = {http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/3362},
abstract = {Labor informality has been for many decades a common situation
among Latin-American economies. In spite of the growing awareness about this section of the labor market in Colombia since 1986,2 it
seems there hasn't been any sort of regulation or economic policy
strictly addressed to reduce the volume of informal workers within
the total working population.
Being labor informality a countercyclical factor with a rather low
correlation coe cient and given the rather low one digit growth rates
of the economy in recent years, to February 2010, about 57.8% of
urban workers in Colombia still belongs to such an unwanted segment
of the market.
This work pretends to illustrate why labor informality is a relevant
indicator of Colombia's economic and  scal situation and why
it should always be taken into account at the time of making several
kinds of economic policy decisions, without letting this indicator
hidden behind the unemployment rate. For this purpose, a classi cation
and subsequent estimations of the  scal costs of informality are
made under the current and a hypothetic segmentation of the labor
market, and an index is calculated with the purpose of showing the
consequences over the  scal sustainability of the Health Care System
in the country.},
booktitle = {Borradores de Investigación : Serie documentos economía, No. 6 (Mayo de 2011)},
keywords = {Informalidad},
keywords = {Ineficiencia fiscal},
keywords = {Desprotección social},
keywords = {Empleo Colombia},
title = {Informalidad laboral : ineficiencia fiscal y desprotección social},
publisher = {Editorial Universidad del Rosario},
}