The Incidence of Ethnic Capital on the Human Capital Accumulation: the Case of Afrocolombians Population in Cali (Colombia)

Abstract

The socioeconomic performance of blacks in Cali is strongly related not only with your own education and skills but also with education and skills from your parents and the social groups which they have interactions. In that way, the different characteristics social, cultural and economics determine in many aspects which will be the level of social mobility of the sons and grandsons in the future stablishing the different levels of mobility that they will have. This paper determines the incidence of ethnic capital on the Human Capital accumulation on the afrocolombians population in Cali as a measurement of racial discrimination through an econometric model of social mobility which incorpores the ethnic capital as a different element from the tradition. I found that there is not racial discrimination in Cali for the afrocolombians who have interactions with people from other races, while for the others there is.