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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2011-2106</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de Economía del Caribe]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[rev. econ. Caribe]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2011-2106</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Editorial Universidad del Norte]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2011-21062020000100007</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.14482/ecoca.25.331</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Midiendo la calidad del empleo: una aplicación para Ecuador en el periodo de 2007 a 2017]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Measuring Quality of Employment: an Application for Ecuador in the period from 2007 to 2017]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Orellana Bravo]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Mercy Raquel]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Rivera Bautista]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Carlos Julio]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Beltrán Romero]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Pablo Aníbal]]></given-names>
</name>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ontaneda Jiménez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Diego Danny]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,mercy.orellana@ucuenca.edu.ec  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Ecuador</country>
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<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,carlos.rivera@ucuenca.edu.ec  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Ecuador</country>
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<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,pablo.beltran@ucuenca.edu.ec  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Ecuador</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af4">
<institution><![CDATA[,diego.ontanedaj@ucuenca.edu.ec  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Ecuador</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2020</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>25</numero>
<fpage>7</fpage>
<lpage>33</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2011-21062020000100007&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2011-21062020000100007&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2011-21062020000100007&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Este trabajo investiga la evolución de la calidad del empleo en Ecuador en el periodo de 2007 a 2017. Debido al carácter multidimensional de la calidad del empleo, se construyen tres tipos de indicadores compuestos. Primero, se elabora un índice compuesto con dos tipos de ponderaciones de las dimensiones: uno que pondera de igual forma cada dimensión y otro que da mayor peso a la dimensión de remuneraciones. Segundo, reconociendo que cada mercado laboral tiene particularidades y que la ponderación de las dimensiones que representan la calidad del empleo no es el mismo para cada país, se aplica un análisis de componentes principales (ACP) policórico. Además, se calcula el indicador de calidad del empleo para diferentes sectores de actividad económica. Los resultados señalan que existe una mejora en el indicador de calidad del empleo en 2017 en relación con el nivel observado en 2007, lo que responde principalmente a los mayores niveles de estabilidad laboral y cobertura de seguridad social que experimentaron los trabajadores durante el periodo de estudio. No obstante, el porcentaje de personas con precariedad laboral sigue siendo bastante significativa, de la misma forma que se señalan marcadas diferencias en el nivel de calidad del empleo entre los diferentes sectores de actividad económica considerados. Los sectores de servicios presentan el mejor indicador, mientras que los sectores de agricultura, ganadería y pesca, y construcción registran el peor indicador.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract The document investigates the evolution of the quality of employment in Ecuador in the years 2007-2017. Due to the multidimensional nature of job quality, three types of composite indicators are constructed. First, a composite index is constructed with two types of dimension weights; one that weights each dimension in the same way, and another that gives greater weight to the remuneration dimension. Second, recognizing that each labor market has particularities and that the weighting of the dimensions that represent the quality of employment is not the same for each country, a Polychoric Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is applied. Additionally, the employment quality indicator is calculated for different sectors of economic activity. The results indicate that there is an improvement in the employment quality indicator in 2017 in relation to the level observed in 2007, what mainly responds to the higher levels of job stability and social security coverage that workers experienced during the study period. However, the percentage of people with job insecurity is still quite significant, in the same way that there are marked differences in the level of quality of employment between the different sectors of economic activity considered in the study. The services sectors present the best indicator, while the agriculture, livestock and fishing, and construction sectors register the worst indicator.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[análisis de componentes principales policórico]]></kwd>
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