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Revista de Economía Institucional
Print version ISSN 0124-5996
Abstract
HERRERA GIRALDO, Magaly Faride and GONZALEZ ESPITIA, Carlos Giovanni. Labor informality and homicides in Cali, a city oh high violence. Rev.econ.inst. [online]. 2022, vol.24, n.46, pp.217-236. Epub Oct 11, 2022. ISSN 0124-5996. https://doi.org/10.18601/01245996.v24n46.11.
This paper estimates the effect of labor informality on homicides in Cali through an econometric analysis using instrumental variables. The results show a positive effect of labor informality (not being affiliated to the health system and not paying pension contributions) on homicides: on average, a one percentage point increase in the labor informality rate increases homicides by 4,2%, significant at the 1% level. These results are relevant for the study of the economics of crime in developing regions.
Keywords : homicides, labor informality, instrumental variables; JEL: K42, J46, C36.