Determinantes de la elección femenina de participar en el mercado laboral en Colombia en el año 2018 un estudio para las 13 áreas metropolitanas

Abstract

The study of the participation decision, and even more, the choice of the types of employment in which an individual can perform, can be conclusive in the dynamics of social mobility processes that are generated within a population. This document aims to analyze through empirical verification the determinants of employment for four categories, controlling for three socioeconomic strata: low, medium and high. In the development of the work, the database provided by the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) is used, which is the Large Integrated Household Survey (GEIH) prepared in 2018 for the labor market. For this purpose, a multinomial logistic regression model is estimated, in order to obtain the results that explain how women choose their occupations recognizing that, those from lower and less educated strata, choose less paid jobs following the logic of the added worker, while those who belong to a higher social segment, do so under the logic of the encouraged worker, choosing better qualified and paid jobs. The dependent variable is the occupational occupation divided into 4 categories and the independent variables that will be used are: Educational level, marital status, head of household, Age of children (12-17 years), Size of the household and a control variable that It will be stratification.