Social mobility, education and labor marketing the department of Córdoba (Colombia)

Authors

  • Aarón Espinosa Espinosa Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar
  • Rosaura Arrieta Flórez Universidad de Cartagena

Keywords:

Social mobility, poverty, departament of Cordoba

Abstract

In this work social mobility in the department of Cordoba in 2003 and 1996 is examined, specially in the urban zones. The phenomenon is analyzed from the educative and occupational perspective, and relations between the educative level and the condition of poverty settle down, emphasizing in the intergenerational transmission of the same one from the education of the head of the home. The document also explores the relations between the labor patterns of economic development of the department, markets and the structure of opportunities. Mobility matrices are constructed, and they are used you will climb to construct indicators that complement the analysis of the asymmetries between the different social groups. Was evidence of absolute and relative mobility in Cordoba, which means that the children have discharge probability of surpassing to the parents in a same generation; nevertheless, the gains in mobility appear in the smaller levels of education to basic the educative capital (12 years), and therefore, can be considered low and insufficient to reduce the intergenerational poverty as a result of the restrictions to the human accumulation of capital.

Author Biographies

Aarón Espinosa Espinosa, Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar

Economista, magíster en economía. Profesor investigador en temas de
pobreza y desarrollo regional en la Facultad de Economía, Universidad
Tecnológica de Bolívar. aespinos@unitecnologica.edu.co

Rosaura Arrieta Flórez, Universidad de Cartagena

Profesora investigadora en temas de pobreza y movilidad social del Instituto
de Políticas Públicas y Gobierno de la Universidad de Cartagena. Estudiante
de la maestría en Política Social, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá.
rarrieta@javeriana.edu.c

Published

2022-03-25

Issue

Section

Science article