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Una Propuesta De Conceptualización Y Medición Del Sector Informal

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  • José Ignacio Uribe García
  • Carlos Humberto Ort�z Quevedo

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En este documento se exponen los tres enfoques analíticos más importantes sobre la informalidad laboral en los países subdesarrollados. El enfoque estructuralista, que le da prioridad en la explicación al escaso desarrollo del sector moderno de la economía; el enfoque de los mercados de trabajo segmentados, que parte de la visión anterior pero plantea la importancia de las instituciones laborales en el interior de las empresas modernas (mercados internos de trabajo) para explicar las limitaciones a la movilidad del trabajo entre los sectores y las diferencias en ingresos; y finalmente, el enfoque institucionalista, que enfatiza en los costos de transacción y de permanencia en el sector formal como elemento esencial en la escogencia de permanecer al margen de la legalidad. Dado que la informalidad como conjunto de análisis abarca a un grupo heterogéneo de agentes, se postula que cada una de las teorías planteadas sobre este tema contribuye a explicar el fenómeno que intentan analizar. Además, en este trabajo se plantea que las diferentes teorías mencionadas podrían complementarse alrededor de la hipótesis de la existencia de rendimientos crecientes a escala en capital físico y humano. Lo que no se considera adecuado de ninguna forma es abandonar el concepto de informalidad y referirse sólo a sus características, como lo propone el BID (2004). La ausencia de teoría no contribuye a entender las interrelaciones entre los elementos que componen la estructura de la informalidad ni sus causas.

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  • José Ignacio Uribe García & Carlos Humberto Ort�z Quevedo, 2004. "Una Propuesta De Conceptualización Y Medición Del Sector Informal," Documentos de Trabajo 3720, Universidad del Valle, CIDSE.
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