by Luis Alfonso Moreno Corredor*, Leonardo Quijano Brand, Sandra Constanza Tiuzo Martínez
ABSTRACT
This article analyzes the impact of Law 100 of 1993 on job creation in Colombia, examining how labor reforms— particularly Law 789 of 2002—reconfigured organizational management models throughout the country. Through a documentary approach and secondary data analysis from DANE, the Bank of the Republic, and the OECD, the transformations of the labor market over three decades are evaluated. Results show that the rise in parafiscal costs imposed critical challenges on the financial management of organizations, creating pressures toward informality, while labor flexibility reforms enabled new human talent management schemes with mixed effects on job quality. Recent evidence from Amodio and de Roux (2023) regarding labor market power on the demand side suggests that organizational decision-making capacity directly influences the determination of wage conditions. The study includes a comparative analysis by presidential periods and concludes that decent work generation depends on a balance between state social protection and the efficiency of organizational management within productive units facing regional disparities.
