Abstract

TENJO-GALARZA, Jaime  and  JAIMES, Carlos Alberto. Income and education in the Colombian rural sector. Rev.econ.inst. [online]. 2018, vol.20, n.38, pp.209-233. ISSN 0124-5996.  https://doi.org/10.18601/01245996.v20n38.09.

This article presents some estimates of income in the Colombian rural sector as a whole and for agriculture and the rest of the sector. The results indicate that in the rural sector there is a high segmentation by gender and that the returns to education are very low, especially in agriculture. One hypothesis to explain these low returns is the lack of complementary factors such as access to land, technical assistance and public goods in general.

JEL: J16, J24, J43.

Keywords : labor economy; gender economy; human capital; abilities; choice of occupation; Agricultural labor markets.

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