Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216676 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal for Labour Market Research [ISSN:] 2510-5027 [Volume:] 53 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2019 [Pages:] 1-19
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
Using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey between 2000 and 2013, we investigate the heterogeneity in labour demand within the industrial sector based on the elasticities. We find that long-run own-price, output, and TFP elasticities vary across a variety of dimensions such as regions, sectors, and plant sizes depending on workers' skills and contract modalities (open-ended and temporary). The determinants of industrial labour demand are quantitatively different, mainly, across regions and, to some extent, subsectors when we focus on demand for unskilled workers. It is possible that, given the importance of apparel in the manufacturing sector in Pereira, labour demand for permanent skilled workers in that city is different from that of Bogotá, Cali, and Medellín. Thus, labour demand heterogeneity is just a symptom of the underlying differences in the production processes and produced goods, technologies, labour force qualification and productivity, preferences of workers, rigidities and wage-setting procedures, and peculiarities of goods' markets, etc. Suggestions to induce more wage flexibility and decrease labour segmentation emerge from this paper.
Subjects: 
Regional disparities
Skilled and unskilled workers
Temporary and open-ended contracts
Labour segmentation
JEL: 
J23
R32
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Document Type: 
Article

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