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
Subjects:	extended families informal employment living standards social policy unemployment workers workplace labor laws health services sick leave
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24193

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spelling	okr-10986-241932021-04-23T14:04:20Z Effects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment Camacho, Adriana Conover, Emily Hoyos, Alejandro extended families informal employment living standards social policy unemployment workers workplace labor laws health services sick leave 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 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. 2016-05-03T21:36:05Z 2016-05-03T21:36:05Z 2014-10-02 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24193 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Colombia
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spellingShingle	extended families informal employment living standards social policy unemployment workers workplace labor laws health services sick leave Camacho, Adriana Conover, Emily Hoyos, Alejandro Effects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment
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description	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 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.
format	Journal Article
author	Camacho, Adriana Conover, Emily Hoyos, Alejandro
author_facet	Camacho, Adriana Conover, Emily Hoyos, Alejandro
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title	Effects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment
title_short	Effects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment
title_full	Effects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment
title_fullStr	Effects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment
title_full_unstemmed	Effects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment
title_sort	effects of colombia's social protection system on workers' choice between formal and informal employment
publisher	Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2016
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24193
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Effects of Colombia's Social Protection System on Workers' Choice between Formal and Informal Employment

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