@article {Arango:2005-09-10T00:00:00:0003-6846:1829, author =
"Arango, Luis E. and Posada, Carlos E.", title = "Labour
participation in Colombia", journal = "Applied Economics",
volume = "37", number = "16", year = "2005-09-10T00:00:00",
abstract = "A model is estimated for the decision of
participating in the labour market for different groups of
household members: not coupled (single, divorced and widow)
women and men and coupled (married and in permanent union) women
and men. The differences among these groups are significant.
Probit models are estimated for the period 1984:1–2000:4 using
the National Housing Survey. The neoclassical static model
performs fairly well in describing the empirical determinants of
the decision of participating. In terms of sign and significance
of estimated coefficients the best performance of the model is
reached for women. In terms of prediction the model proves
useful for not coupled persons. Except for the variable named
‘children aged less than six years', all variables p