La participación laboral de la mujer casada y su cónyuge en Colombia: Un enfoque de decisiones relacionadas

Emma Beatriz Castro Urbano; Gustavo Adolfo García Cruz; Erika Raquel Badillo Enciso

doi:10.17533/udea.le.n74a9999

Authors

Emma Beatriz Castro Urbano Autonomous university of Occident
Gustavo Adolfo García Cruz Autonomous University of Barcelona
Erika Raquel Badillo Enciso Autonomous University of Barcelona

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.le.n74a9999

Keywords:

married woman, labor participation, biprobit, Colombia

Abstract

This paper analyzes the determinants of labor participation of married women (married or in consensual union) and their spouses as a family decision in Colombia. It has been found that married women experience a greater pressure for participating in the labor market than women in general. Education is an important factor that reduces the gap in labor participation rates among couples. The econometric estimations, using a bivariate probit model corrected for selection bias, show that the labor participation decision of couples is affected in different ways by human capital endowment, school age children, household economic conditions, and indicators of labor demand and regional characteristics.

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Author Biographies

Emma Beatriz Castro Urbano, Autonomous university of Occident

Professor and director of the Economics program at the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (Cali-Colombia). She is a member of the Research Group in Economics and Development (GIED) of the same university.

Gustavo Adolfo García Cruz, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Doctoral student in Applied Economics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). FI predoctoral fellow from the Department of Applied Economics of the same university.

Erika Raquel Badillo Enciso, Autonomous University of Barcelona

Official Master's Degree student in Economics at the University of Barcelona (Spain). Member of the Regional Quantitative Analysis Group (AQR-IREA) of the same university.

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