Nina Wald, Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück
Many Colombians are confronted with the ongoing conflict influencing their behaviour on labor markets. This study focuses on the impact of conflict on self-employment. Three datasets are combined for fixed effects estimation: the Familias en Acción dataset delivers information about individuals, a second dataset contains different indicators of the Colombian conflict on the municipality level and the third dataset includes taxes to measure a municipality¿s economic situation. Our results show that high homicide and displacement rates at the community of origin reduces self-employment while a high influx of displaced increases the probability of self-employment at the municipality of destination.
JEL-Classification: C23;J16;J24;O10
Keywords: self-employment, civil conflict, rural labor markets, Colombia
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