Abstract

RAMIREZ ZAMBRANO, Jorge Raúl; ZAMBRANO MIRANDA, Mario de Jesús; MOGROVEJO, ohanna Milena  and  CARRENO MONTANO, Jorge Luis. Labor informality in Norte de Santander, Nariño, La Guajira and Cesar - Colombia. Apuntes del Cenes [online]. 2016, vol.35, n.62, pp.125-145. ISSN 0120-3053.

The article aims to analyze labor informality from a regional context including the states of border areas, through two kinds of methodology: non-parametric and parametric. Within the non-parametric methodology it is used the arc elasticity and in the parametric it is used panel data method. The results show a positive relationship between the participation of industrial GDP, the Gini coefficient, the monetary poverty and informal work for the states under review.

Keywords : informality; social security; institutional theory; structuralist theory; regional economy.

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