Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach of Quality of Employment in Latin America: Evidence from Colombia

33 Pages Posted: 19 May 2016 Last revised: 21 Apr 2017

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Thibaud Deguilhem

LADYSS UMR 7533 - Université Paris Cité

Michelle Vernot

Universitat de Barcelona; Universidad Externado de Colombia

Baptiste Delmas

Laval University

Date Written: May 18, 2016

Abstract

In Colombia, the labour market is characterized by the multiplication of atypical forms of employment. These forms are beyond the classic labour market analysis and demand the creation of tools adapted to the specific contexts of each country. The concept of quality of employment seems to respond to the failures of the Decent work concept, but leaves out any legal concept. The authors with the help of an original methodology, Multiple Correspondence Analysis, construct a multidimensional and interdisciplinary quality of employment indicator that allows to transcend the classical typologies. This indicator enables an accurate description of the labour market in the city of Bogota for 2013.

Keywords: Colombian labour market, Multiple Correspondence Analysis, Quality of employment index, Univariate clustering, Interdisciplinarity

JEL Classification: J21, J24, O17, O54

Suggested Citation

Deguilhem, Thibaud and Vernot, Michelle and Delmas, Baptiste, Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach of Quality of Employment in Latin America: Evidence from Colombia (May 18, 2016). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2781585 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2781585

Thibaud Deguilhem (Contact Author)

LADYSS UMR 7533 - Université Paris Cité ( email )

85 boulevard Saint-Germain
Paris, 75006
France

Michelle Vernot

Universitat de Barcelona ( email )

Barcelona
Spain

Universidad Externado de Colombia ( email )

Calle 12 # 1-17 este
Calle 12 0 83
Bogota D.C, Cundinamarca 3456
Colombia

Baptiste Delmas

Laval University ( email )

2214 Pavillon J-A. DeSeve
Quebec, Quebec G1K 7P4
Canada

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