Efectividad de los canales de búsqueda de empleo en Colombia en el año 2003

• Main Authors: Carlos Augusto Viáfara, José Ignacio Uribe, Yanira Marcela Oviedo
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Antioquia 2007-12-01
• Series: Lecturas de Economía
• Subjects: Unemployment; Job Search; Search Methods; Efectivity of the Search Methods; Social Networks.
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&pid=S0120-25962007000200002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=es

This paper studies the efectivity of search methods in the colombian labormarket. The empirical analysis is uses the 2003 survey of life quality. More frequentlyused methods are the informal ones; i.e. informal economic activities are reflected in theinformality of search methods. Formal methods are the most effective, followed by themoderated informal methods -weak links- and informal methods -strong links. Anotherfinding of this paper is that education is the most important characteristic to gain accesto the most effective.