Abstract

BOTELLO PENALOZA, Héctor Alberto  and  GUERRERO RINCON, Isaac. IMPACT OF COVID-19 MITIGATION ACTIONS ON RURAL LABOR INFORMALITY IN COLOMBIA. Tend. [online]. 2021, vol.22, n.2, pp.182-212.  Epub Aug 09, 2021. ISSN 0124-8693.  https://doi.org/10.22267/rtend.212202.173.

The coronavirus has become a challenge for governments around the world both in terms of health and economics. Quarantines, business closures, social distancing, and other policies threaten economic and employment growth. This document seeks to analyze the evolution of labor informality in Colombia's rural sector in the period before and after the implementation of policies that mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. The period analyzed uses microdata from household surveys between January and May 2019 and 2020 to contrast the evolution of the informality rate. Among the results, a 20% annual reduction in the total number of workers who are informal was observed. For its part, the rate of informality has remained at the same levels before the pandemic (May 2019). However, these results were presented by the fall in the number of employed workers who are part of the economically active population, who have migrated to the inactive population for work within the home.

JEL: J01; J31; J21

Keywords : unemployment; labor market; Oaxaca Blinder; pandemic; rurality..

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