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

We 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 instr...

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Main Authors: Camacho, Adriana, Conover, Emily, Hoyos, Alejandro
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24193