Objectives of sustainable development and youth employment in Colombia
Entity
UAM. Departamento de Estructura Económica y Economía del DesarrolloPublisher
MDPI, Basel, SwitzerlandDate
2020-01-30Citation
10.3390/su12030991
Sustainability 12.3 (2020): 991
ISSN
2071-1050;DOI
10.3390/su12030991Editor's Version
http://doi.org/10.3390/su12030991Subjects
sustainable development goals; human capital; youth unemployment; Probit model; multinomial logit model; cohort study; EconomíaRights
© 2020 by the authors.Abstract
The sustainable development goals (SDGs) aim to raise quality employment, gender
equity in access to employment and increase coverage in education. However, in Colombia, high
unemployment rates and the informality of young people are risks of achieving these goals. The
purpose of this research is to estimate the determinants of youth unemployment and its relationship
with SDGs Objective 8, and linking it to the objectives of quality education and gender equity. Using
the microdata of the Colombian household survey, DANE, this relationship is estimated with a
methodology of age, period, and cohort, through a Probit/Logit Multinomial model. As a novel
result for the Colombian case, it is shown that, although new generations of young people are more
educated, education per se is not enough to guarantee them a quality insertion into the labor market,
penalizing, above all, young women. Lack of work experience and segmentation of the labor market
would help explain this outcome. Employment policies, therefore, to achieve the SDGs must not only
invest in education, but also expand dual education programs, considering gender
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Google Scholar:Castillo, Cristian
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Silva, Julimar da
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Monsueto, Sandro
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