Author(s)

Ángel Emilio Muñoz Cardona

Faculty Public Administration, Superior School Public Administration, Medellin, Colombia; VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The following research paper seeks to observe how gender equality has evolved in the Colombian labor market over the past 13 years, during which the Government has signed thirteen free trade agreements1. The paper focuses at the central research question: How has it benefited the woman in the Colombian labor market with economic globalization? To answer this research question, we will show what the behavior of macroeconomic variables GDP, unemployment, industrial growth rate and population growth rate has been. From this frame of reference we will make a statistical analysis of the behavior of the labor market by gender in Colombia so as income levels as of schooling. The database of statistical information is provided by the General Household Survey conducted by the Department of National Statistics, DANE.

Formal and Informal Employment, Gender Dignity, Distributive and Commutative Justice, Labor and Non-Labor Incomes

Muñoz Cardona, Á. (2014) Gender Dignity in the Colombian Labor Market (2000-2013). Open Journal of Political Science, 4, 195-207. doi: 10.4236/ojps.2014.44020.