Arbeitspapier

Self-employment and conflict in Colombia

Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict that influences their decision making in everyday life, including their behavior in labor markets. This study focuses on the impact of violent conflict on self-employment, enlarging the usual determinants with a set of conflict variables. In order to estimate the effect of conflict on self-employment, we employ fixed effects estimation. Three datasets are combined for estimation: the Familias en Acción dataset delivers information about individuals, a second dataset contains different indicators of the Colombian conflict at the municipality level and the third dataset includes taxes to measure a municipality's economic situation. Our results show that high homicide and displacement rates in the community of origin reduces self-employment, while a high influx of displaced increases the probability of self-employment in the destination municipality.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 1098

Classification
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Economic Development: General
Subject
self-employment
civil conflict
rural labor markets
Colombia

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Bozzoli, Carlos
Brück, Tilman
Wald, Nina
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2011

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  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Bozzoli, Carlos
  • Brück, Tilman
  • Wald, Nina
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Time of origin

  • 2011

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