Factores determinantes de la participación femenina en el autoempleo en Colombia para el año 2016

Abstract

This document analyzes the determinants of female participation in self-employment in Colombia for the year 2016. For this, a database provided from the official page of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) and the Great Integrated Household Survey (GEIH 2016). Two Logit models are estimated to find results that explain female labor participation in self-employment divided into categories of "self-employed" and "self-employed" women; in order to contemplate which are the variables that influence around the proposed topic. The dependent variable is a dichotomous variable that represents the decision to be self-employed using the occupational categories of employer and self-employed, defined as 1 if it is self-employed and 0 if it is a salaried worker, the explanatory variables are the level of schooling, age, marital status, number of children in the home and if the woman is head of household. As results, homogeneous effects are found with the variables schooling, age and marital status between the models of the "patron" women and the "own account"; finally it is found that the number of minors in the household decreases the probability in 0.203% for the "patrons", but increases the probability in 1.12% in the women "own account".